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Jim McKay on NBC? CBS Too?Actually, Yes!

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Jim McKay on NBC? CBS Too?

Actually, yes! With the Olympics upon us, I thought you may like to know that NBC was classy enough to include Jim McKay three times in it’s Olympics coverage over the years. In 2002, ABC “loaned” McKay to NBC to serve as a special correspondent during the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. The NBC broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was dedicated to McKay, per a message at the closing of the broadcast. NBC also dedicated the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony to him.

Although Jim was with ABC for 37 years, he has covered the Olympics 12 times for all three networks starting with the 1960 Summer games from Rome, which he anchored for CBS from the Grand Central Terminal studios. Gone, but not forgotten. Thanks Jim!

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11 responses to “Jim McKay on NBC? CBS Too?Actually, Yes!”

  1. Bob Conover

    I disagree… I thought it a sad commentary when the White House had to impose a dress code because broadcasters didn’t have respect for the office of POTUS. I think the same is true for far too many events.

  2. Charlie Huntley

    BobC you found this fast.thanx for your support…maybe i’m just too old and should just let the way it was be just that…OR Not

  3. Bob Conover

    Jim’s son Sean McManus went to summer baseball camp together… back then (1960’s) being a television sports commentator was “no big deal”…

  4. Charlie Huntley

    I Love that they respected the Event enuff to dress up in Coats &Ties…those days are gone ,along with fair and balanced Commentary!! Shame on NBC & my ol’Pal Dick Ebersol,if he is behind the Trend to turn the coverage into American Idol!!

  5. Chuck Pharis

    What a great man. After working 4 Olympics with him he always remembered my name on the first day.

  6. John Johnson

    I hope it doesn’t make me sound old, but I used to watch Jim McKay hosting the CBS TV Monday-Friday daytime “The Verdict Is Yours” program.

  7. Sheila Hamm Wills

    Yes, he had class. I loved his voice and straightforward delivery.

  8. Harold W. Wetzel

    One of the BEST !

  9. Peter Quentin George

    Classy. Simply classy. I’ll never forget watching Jim McKay that night on live television. I was only 12 when it happened. But I remember vividly being in my Dad’s den and saw it all unfold in front of my eyes. “They’re all gone.”. The look in his eyes said it all.

  10. Dave Stewart

    For real. It was one of the most poignant moments in TV news history.

  11. Albert J. McGilvray

    “They’re gone; they’re all gone.” – One of the greatest, if not tragic, moments in news broadcasting, – and it was a sports guy who did it. He redefined the business with his coverage of the hostage situation.

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