Quote of the Day
"To refer to Jim McKay simply as a sportscaster is insufficient. It diminishes what he was and what he did.”
-- NBC's Bob Costas (“CBS News Sunday Morning,” CBS, 6/8).
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"One Of The Greatest We Shall See"
McKay Greets "Wide World
Of Sports" Viewers In '61The late Jim McKay is being called the “most respected and admired sportscaster of his generation,” the “personification of class and style” who “brought a reporter's eye, a literate touch, and above all a personal humanity to every assignment.” He is being remembered as the “founding father of sports television,” an “iconic figure in sports media” and “the most respected and admired broadcaster, if not the most important, during the first 50 years of sports on television.” He was “the Murrow of sports" who “did more for sports broadcasting than any other." McKay was “one of American broadcasting's originals” and “one of the greatest we shall see." One columnist writes of McKay, "In this television era of 'Look at me. I am the story,' we will not see another like him.”
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