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Olympics on TV; The World Comes Together in Your Living Room: The Olympics on TV; OLYMPICS AND TELEVISION; Olympic Commentators by Event History; Olympic Broadcasting Services [permanent dead link ] Logos of Olympic Broadcasters - Part 2: 1960s. Logos of Olympic Broadcasters - Part 3: 1970s; Logos of Olympic Broadcasters - Part 4: 1980s
The 1980 Miracle on Ice, which ABC showed in primetime, about three hours after it actually took place. (The Americans' gold medal–clinching game against Finland was aired live, despite a start time of 11am EST on a Sunday morning. All US hockey games in the Winter Olympics since 1988 have been shown live, and since 1992, in full.)
The title card for the ABC Olympic Games coverage. Note the integration of the network logo into the Olympic symbol. The Olympic Games aired in the United States on the broadcast network ABC during the 1960s to the 1980s. ABC first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, [1] and the Summer Olympic Games in 1968. [2]
USA's upset of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics was only the second hockey game Michaels had ever called.
Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in Lake Placid, N.Y., during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, en route to ...
The 1980 Summer Olympics (Russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, romanized: Letnije Olimpijskije igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (Russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, romanized: Igry XXII Olimpiady) and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (Russian: Москва 1980, romanized: Moskva 1980), were an international multi-sport event held ...
One of Al Michaels's more famous broadcasts were of the 1980 Winter Olympics ice hockey medal round match between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the attempted third game of the 1989 World Series. In 1980, an unheralded group of college ice hockey players from the United States won the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games.
Although CBS bid on the rights to several Olympics in the 1970s and 1980s, CBS was outbid by rivals NBC and ABC. When the 1990s approached, CBS won the rights to three consecutive Winter Games: 1992, [6] 1994 and 1998.