ABC’s Wide World of Sports is a sports anthology television series that
aired on the American Broadcasting Company from April 29, 1961 to
January 3, 1998, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay,
with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be
used for general sports programs on the network until 2006. In 2007, Wide
World of Sports was named by Time Magazine on its list of the 100 best
television programs of all-time.

Host Jim McKay (James Kenneth McManus)
(September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008)