Tweet

Revival for human drama

By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/30/2000 8:00:00 PM

New York

ABC is considering reviving the sports anthology show, ABC Wide World of Sports. The show ran for 37 years on the network before being canceled in 1997, the victim of rising sports costs, viewing fragmentation and lower ratings.

An ABC official said there has been no final decision, but if the plan gets OK'd, the network wants to bring the show back in early 2001.

The network still uses the label Wide World of Sports for some of its ice skating and college sports telecasts. Jim McKay, the host of the original telecast, would have a regular feature in the new show, but not hosting duties, according to the official.

Tweet

Talkback

We would love your feedback!

Post a comment

» View All Talkback Threads

Related Content

• Topics
• Author
• Most Popular Pages

No related content found.

Also by this author

• Technology Leadership Summit 2011

• WGA Announces TV Noms

• Cable Ratings: 'Top Chef' Finale Draws 3.4 Million

• Leo Wolinsky Named Editor of Daily Variety

• CAB: Cable Ad Spending Grows to $18.7B in '09

Also by Staff Staff

Most Popular Pages

No Top Articles

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Grab Networks

  

  Created from the merger between Anystream and Voxant Media, Grab Networks offers a comprehensive video operating system and syndication network for profitably publishing video anywhere on the Internet. The system automatically manages, transcodes and tags video assets- turning cl..more

---

Most Recent Resources

• The New Normal for Promoting Tune-in
• Infrastructure Design for High Volume Video Workflows
• Multi Format Encoding for Efficient Content Repurposing
• The CIOs Guide to Videoconferencing Security Keeping Pace with th..
• Extracting and Preparing Metadata to Make Video Files Searchable