The passing of Jim McKay this weekend brings to mind not only images of Wide World of Sports and the 1972 Summer Olympics, but his longtime association with ABC, Roone Arledge and the network’s founding president, Leonard Goldenson.
As some of you may know, we paid tribute to the career of Leonard Goldenson on the Dec. 12, 2006 edition of Talking Television with Dave White. Joining Dave and me that evening were Loreen Arbus, who sponsored the exhibit honoring Leonard Goldenson at the Museum of Television and Radio, and David Krell, TV historian and consultant on the project. In this brief clip from that broadcast, we discussed not only the many innovations ABC brought to sports and television, but the leadership Goldenson showed in supporting those innovations.
Ed Robertson
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June 15, 2008 at 11:41 pm
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