ABC’s ‘Wide World of Sports’ debut 60 years ago. It would go on to change sports television as we know it
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ABC’s ‘Wide World of Sports’ debut 60 years ago. It would go on to change sports television as we know it
Sixty years ago, friendly-faced host Jim McKay welcomed viewers to a live broadcast of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The event was nothing new — the first Penn Relays was in 1895 — but the program was, and for the next 36-plus years ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” would profoundly change how […]
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