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84-699: City Bakery was established in New York in 1990 by Maury Rubin, a television producer and director at ABC Sports , after studying pastry making in Lyons with Denis Ruffel of Patisserie Millet in Paris and having served as an apprentice pâstissier in Paris. City Bakery opened in the Union Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan on December 8, 1990. Its menus are determined by the foods supplied by small family farms in

168-580: A Serie A match before losing those rights to CBS Sports the following season. In 2023, ABC lost the United States women's national soccer team broadcasts as they were picked up by TNT Sports . Later, ABC added the Supercopa de España final and the NWSL (beginning in 2024) as part of its soccer contract. After a five-year hiatus, ABC returned to airing college basketball in 2019 with five games on

252-669: A digital on-screen graphic during sports broadcasts on the network, and in promotions to disambiguate events airing the broadcast network from those shown on the ESPN cable channel. The broadcast network's sports event coverage carried the ABC Sports brand prior to September 2, 2006. When ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN in 1984, it operated the cable network separately from its network sports division. The integration of ABC Sports with ESPN began after The Walt Disney Company bought ABC in 1996. The branding change to ESPN on ABC

336-465: A Tart, World's First Stuffed Raspberry Tart, Fresh Ricotta Tart with Fruit and Edible Flowers. A cookbook, designed by Rubin, Book of Tarts: Form, Function and Flavor at City Bakery , won the 1996 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Design of the Year Award. The Pretzel Croissant was created in 1996 by combining a traditional French croissant with some of the ingredients of

420-571: A classic German pretzel. In 2015, The New Yorker magazine produced a video on how the Pretzel Croissant is made. City Bakery makes what it calls "Real Hot Chocolate" from high-quality couverture chocolate , melted to create an intensely rich chocolate drink. It established the City Bakery Annual Hot Chocolate Festival, held every February, with a different flavor of hot chocolate every day of

504-403: A decline in ratings toward the end of its ABC run, the program was a hit for the network; according to ABC president Leonard Goldenson , Monday Night Football helped regularly score ABC an audience share of 15%–16%. With the creation of Monday Night Football , Arledge not only anchored ABC's primetime programming, but created a national pastime. At first, nobody – including the affiliates and

588-429: A game or event. McKay's honest curiosity and reporter's bluntness gave the show an emotional appeal which attracted viewers who might not have otherwise watched a sporting event. More importantly from Arledge's perspective, Wide World of Sports allowed him to demonstrate his ability as an administrator as well as a producer. His ability to provide prime sports content was solidified in 1964, when ABC appointed Arledge as

672-530: A large yard complex consisting of Shinagawa Carriage Sidings, Shinagawa Locomotive Depot, and Tamachi Depot. Shinagawa is served by the following lines: JR Central announced in 2011 that Shinagawa will be the terminal for the Chūō Shinkansen , a maglev line under construction and scheduled to begin service to Nagoya in 2027. The main JR station concourse is situated above the platforms running east–west across

756-787: A new, seven-year broadcast deal with the NHL, which included games on ESPN, ABC, and ESPN+ beginning in the 2021–22 season . ABC's first game back featured the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins in the annual Thanksgiving Showdown on November 26, 2021. After ABC aired the 2022 NHL All-Star Game , the network aired a weekly game under the ABC Hockey Saturday branding, which began on February 26. The package primarily aired on Saturday afternoons, with one primetime game on March 19 to accommodate afternoon coverage of

840-410: A newly built bike path by New York City, and bike riders were offered a 50% discount if they entered with their bike helmet. Due to popularity, the discount was reduced to 15%. Other green initiatives: the bakery used wind-power; the staff wore shirts, hats and jackets that were either vintage or made from bamboo or hemp; and food waste composting. The intention of not naming the bakery in the early days

924-406: A producer of NCAA football games in 1960, the network was in financial shambles. The International Olympic Committee even wanted a bank to guarantee ABC's contract to broadcast the 1960 Olympics . At the time, Edgar Scherick served as the de facto head of ABC Sports. Scherick had joined the fledgling ABC television network when he persuaded it to purchase Sports Programs, Inc., in exchange for

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1008-462: A role as executive producer of its sports telecasts. Several months before ABC began broadcasting NCAA college football games, Arledge sent Scherick a remarkable memo, filled with youthful exuberance, and television production concepts which sports broadcasts have adhered to since. Network broadcasts of sporting events had previously consisted of simple set-ups and focused on the game itself. In his memo, Arledge not only offered another way to broadcast

1092-415: A space five times larger than the original. City Bakery's design was unique, featuring 22-foot-high ceilings with stark white walls decorated only with cake boxes - a playful homage to the landmark Chrysler Building , decorated with hubcaps near its spire. In 2005, Maury Rubin designed and built an experimental 240-square-foot bakery that had no formal name, but featured the words "Build A Green Bakery" on

1176-722: A special guest appearance by former ABC announcer Al Michaels . In the 2010s, the only consistent sports on ABC were college football , the NBA , the Indianapolis 500 and the Little League World Series . ESPN began simulcasting an NFL Wild Card Playoff game on ABC starting in 2016, marking the first time ABC had an NFL game since Super Bowl XL ; this was later followed by the Pro Bowl starting in 2018. Additionally, ABC simulcast ESPN's coverage of rounds 4–7 of

1260-622: Is a major railway station in the Takanawa and Konan districts of Minato, Tokyo , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), and the private railway operator Keikyu . The Tokaido Shinkansen and other trains to the Miura Peninsula , Izu Peninsula , and the Tōkai region pass through here. Though a major station in Tokyo, Shinagawa

1344-633: Is not served by the Tokyo subway network. However, it is connected to the Toei Asakusa Line via Keikyu through services. Despite its name, the station is not located in Shinagawa ward. Shinagawa is also commonly used to refer to the business district around the station, which is in Takanawa and Konan neighborhoods of Minato, directly north of Shinagawa ward. This station is just south of

1428-525: Is shown instead of just the ABC logo. In addition, commercial transitions for ABC games now contain the ABC logo. It is the first time NBA games on ABC don't have ESPN identification during live action since the 2006 NBA Finals. An exception was during the MLS Cup 2019 on ABC, where no ESPN logo other than the mic flags appeared on the screen and the broadcast was introduced as "the 2019 MLS Cup Final on ABC" with

1512-461: Is the only broadcast television network to have rights to broadcast games from all four major professional leagues all at the same time. This is largely due to joint contracts with ESPN and those four leagues. Like its longtime competitors CBS Sports and NBC Sports , ABC Sports was originally part of the news division of the ABC network, and, after 1961, was spun off into its own independent division. When Roone Arledge came to ABC Sports as

1596-498: Is the parent subsidiary of the cable sports network ESPN that is majority owned by ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company , in partnership with Hearst Communications . ABC broadcasts use ESPN's production and announcing staff, and incorporate elements such as ESPN-branded on-screen graphics, SportsCenter in-game updates, and the BottomLine ticker . The ABC logo is still used for identification purposes such as

1680-434: The 2018 NFL draft . Then, starting in 2019, ABC aired all three days of the draft. In 2020, ABC simulcast 3 Monday Night Football games. The first regular season games aired nationally on the network since 2005. In 2022, ABC aired an exclusive game. In 2023, ABC aired 4 exclusive games. Also, due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes , ESPN announced that all remaining Monday Night Football games would be simulcast on ABC and

1764-522: The 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament . All games broadcast by ABC are simulcast on ESPN+. The 2022 Stanley Cup Finals marked the first to be broadcast in their entirety on over-the-air television since 1980 , as the Finals had since either been partially or exclusively carried on cable. In 2021, ABC broadcast its first UFC event as part of UFC on ABC: Holloway vs. Kattar on January 16, 2021. In 2022, ABC aired UFC in primetime for

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1848-791: The Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs which Alabama won, 21–6. Despite the production values he brought to NCAA college football, Scherick wanted low-budget sports programming (as in inexpensive broadcasting rights) that could attract and retain an audience. He hit upon the idea of broadcasting track and field events sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union . While Americans were not exactly fans of track and field events, Scherick figured that Americans understood games. In January 1961, Scherick called Arledge into his office, and asked him to attend

1932-629: The Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs . That same year, ESPN and Major League Baseball agreed to a contract extension that included the exclusive rights to a new Wild Card Series. ABC will have the rights to air select games from the Series, as well as the rights to air select ESPN regular season games. ABC aired one game from the 2022 Wild Card Series. In 2023 , ABC aired the Rays vs Rangers Wild Card series . Starting in 2024, ABC will air

2016-687: The Elvis Presley - Evel Knievel era of TV programming, there would have been a place for Holey Moley." To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Monday Night Football , Steve Levy , Brian Griese , Louis Riddick , Lisa Salters , and John Parry all wore special ABC Sports replica jackets during the September 21 game between the New Orleans Saints and the Las Vegas Raiders . The game aired on ESPN, with ABC simulcasting

2100-726: The Fisher Building in New Center , opened January 29, 2018. The New York Times Magazine called Maury Rubin "a baking impresario." Smithsonian magazine has called the City Bakery croissant "the best croissant...in New York City." When City Bakery expanded to a new space in 2001, New York magazine wrote "you'll never have to leave." The Los Angeles Times called Maury Rubin "[a baking] master." The New York Times Food Section, writing about Maury Rubin and

2184-620: The National Football League (which completed its merger with the American Football League that year), Monday Night Football debuted on ABC in September 1970, which served as the NFL's premier game of the week until 2006, when Sunday Night Football , which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw MNF move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. Although it suffered

2268-472: The USFL ), ESPN and ABC Sports continued to operate as separate entities. After The Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities/ABC in 1996, Disney started to slowly integrate ESPN and ABC Sports. ESPN personalities like Chris Berman , Mike Tirico and Brad Nessler also began working on ABC Sports broadcasts. In 1998, ESPN adopted the graphics and music package used by ABC Sports for Monday Night Football for

2352-574: The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland , as well as on an aircraft carrier stationed off Pensacola, Florida . Despite the above, the 1977 Ring Record Book contained the fictitious additions to the records of the boxers in question and were never taken out of their records of the boxers. Those dubious bouts would continue to appear in subsequent Ring Record Book editions. The Ring Record magazine scandal

2436-758: The Upper West Side of Manhattan. In 2013, City Bakery Osaka, a licensed operation, opened in Grand Front Plaza. City Bakery Osaka opened with long lines for several months, and was forced to establish a limit of two Pretzel Croissants only for each customer. Since then, City Bakery has opened locations in Tokyo, including Shinagawa Train Station and Tokyu Plaza in the Ginza Shopping District. These locations continue to operate under license. The Detroit location of City Bakery, in

2520-532: The "Big Ten on ABC". The next year, in 2017, the Pac-12 Conference began branding their games under the title, "Pac-12 on ESPN". While the program is still officially part of ESPN College Football which is reflected when talent appears on screen, the Big Ten on ABC logo and branding is used for intro, program IDs, and replay wipes. This is the first time any regularly scheduled sporting event outside of

2604-444: The "SEC on ESPN". ACC broadcasts followed suit in 2012 becoming the "ACC on ESPN". Despite the fact that ACC games also air on ABC, the games remain branded as the "ACC on ESPN" regardless of network. In 2016, a new contract brought conference branding to Big Ten telecasts as well, which air on both ESPN and ABC. While Big Ten games that air on ESPN cable channels are branded as the "Big Ten on ESPN", games airing on ABC are now branded as

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2688-600: The 1970s original (then hosted by Monday Night Football ' s Howard Cosell ). "If you're expecting to see the yellow jackets and the [old school ABC Sports] mic flags, you'll be delighted," Executive Andrew Grossman told reporters." Episodes also began with a remake of the network's iconic Wide World of Sports introduction. The 2019 "extreme miniature golf " competition Holey Moley also used 1970s replica ABC Sports jackets on its lead hosts, ESPN's Joe Tessitore and former Fox NFL Sunday prognosticator Rob Riggle , and guest commentators. Tessitore commented that its use

2772-527: The 3:30 PM Eastern Time window, but there will also be the possibility for games to be carried on Saturday Night Football . ABC will also hold rights to the SEC Championship Game . In 2021, ABC began airing coverage of the NBA draft . In 2023, due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes , ESPN announced that ABC would air a series of Wednesday night NBA games during January 2024 for the 2023–24 NBA season . On March 10, 2021, ESPN announced

2856-614: The ABC Sports banner was the United States Championship Game in the Little League World Series on Saturday, August 26, 2006 (ABC was slated to carry the Little League World Series Championship Game on Sunday, August 27, however rain forced the postponement of the game to the following Monday, August 28, with that game subsequently airing on ESPN2 ). The changeover took effect the following weekend to coincide with

2940-542: The ABC logo appearing on the screen. For all soccer coverage, the ABC branding is used with little to no use of the ESPN logo (for example the Bundesliga on ABC ). Beginning in 2017, older ABC Sports branding elements have been re-used nostalgically by the network's sports-themed reality competition shows (which also import on-air talent from ESPN). The revival of Battle of the Network Stars paid homage to

3024-493: The ABC logo. These graphics were used through 2010. In 2011, the Bee was moved off of network TV and the telecast began to be produced by Scripps Television, which uses its own graphics. As ESPN has signed new contracts with various conferences to produce college football coverage, the network has begun branding its coverage of select conferences to which it has rights. This branding was first seen on SEC broadcasts in 2011, which became

3108-626: The Boxing Writers Association dedicated their highest honor, the "James A. Farley Award", after Farley Sr., for honesty and integrity in the sport of boxing. The seeds of its eventual integration with ESPN occurred when ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN from Getty Oil in 1984. One year later, Capital Cities Communications purchased ABC for US$ 3.5 billion. Although some ESPN sportscasters such as John Saunders and Dick Vitale began to also appear on ABC Sports telecasts and shared some sports content (particularly

3192-479: The National Spelling Bee has carried any ABC branding since 2006. Also starting with Saturday Primetime in 2017, live NBA game action no longer shows the ESPN identification on screen. Previously under ESPN on ABC (since 2006–07), the ESPN logo was part of the score banner, while the ABC logo was separately floating on the right side of the screen, remaining on screen during replays. The version of

3276-458: The New York region, much of which was purchased at the nearby Union Square Greenmarket . Suppliers have included Glensfoot Dairy of Cherry Valley and Community Mill & Bean of Ithaca , for certified organic flour and oats. Its baked goods include Lemon Tart in a Chocolate Crust, Milky Way Tart, Chocolate Custard infused with Ethiopian Coffee Beans, Passion Fruit Tart with a Raspberry Polka Dot, Orange Tarts Made out of Apples, Bunch of Nuts in

3360-607: The Sunday game of the College World Series finals. This will be the first College World Series game on ABC, and the first CWS game on broadcast television since 2002. On December 10, 2020, ESPN announced that it had acquired the top-tier rights to the SEC under a 10-year, $ 3 billion contract to begin in the 2024 season; ABC will hold rights to the top SEC game of the week (replacing CBS). As before, they will primarily air in

3444-686: The United States Championship Tournament, orchestrated by promoter Don King to capitalize on the patriotism surrounding the United States Bicentennial and the American amateur success at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games . King's idea was to defeat the non-American boxers who held the vast majority of world titles below the heavyweight division. Keeping in line with the patriotic theme of the promotion, King held shows at "patriotic" locales—such as

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3528-587: The Yamanote Line started operation. Takanawa station of the Keikyu Line (then Keihin Railway Line) opened on 11 March 1924 across the street from Shinagawa station. Takanawa station was renamed Shinagawa station and moved to the current site on 1 April 1933. The station concourse on the eastern side of the station (located above the platforms) was extensively redeveloped in 2003 in connection with

3612-637: The Yokosuka Line, JK20 for the Keihin-Tohoku Line, and JY25 for the Yamanote Line. At the same time, JR East assigned the station a 3-letter code; Shinagawa was assigned the code "SGW". In fiscal 2017, the JR East station was used by an average of 378,566 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the fifth-busiest station operated by JR East. The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below. Found in online news in

3696-496: The advertisers – supported the idea of primetime football games at the beginning of the week. Arledge said regarding this skepticism, "But I thought there was something special about football, because there are so few games, and relatively few teams. Also, there is something about the look of a night game, with the lights bouncing off the helmets." It was not only the lights that made watching Arledge-style football on ABC an event in itself. The games were transformed into events through

3780-733: The annual AAU board of governors meeting. While he was shaking hands, Scherick said, "if the mood seemed right, might he cut a deal to broadcast AAU events on ABC?" It seemed like a tall assignment, however as Scherick said years later, "Roone was a gentile and I was not." Arledge came back with a deal for ABC to broadcast all AAU events for $ 50,000 per year. Next, Scherick and Arledge divided up their NCAA college football sponsor list. They then telephoned their sponsors and said in so many words, "Advertise on our new sports show coming up in April, or forget about buying commercials on NCAA college football this fall." The two persuaded enough sponsors to advertise on

3864-469: The breadth of the station. A freely traversable walkway divides the station into two sections. The southerly section contains a number of shops and market-style stalls which form the "e-cute" station complex. Cross-platform interchange between the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines is only available for Yamanote Line trains to Shibuya and Keihin-Tōhoku Line trains to Tokyo. The Keikyu platforms are on

3948-552: The broadcasts, though it took them to the last day of a deadline imposed by ABC's programming operations to do it. Wide World of Sports – an anthology series featuring a different sporting event each broadcast, which premiered on the network on April 29, 1961 – suited Scherick's plans exactly. By exploiting the speed of jet transportation and flexibility of videotape , Scherick was able to undercut NBC and CBS's advantages in broadcasting live sporting events. In that era, with communications nowhere near as universal as they are in

4032-464: The cable rights. For example, TNT held the cable television rights to the British Open from 2003 to 2009 (with ABC carrying the tournament's weekend coverage); in addition, from 2009 to 2018, ABC had shared the rights to IndyCar Series with NBCSN . IndyCar fans who have criticized ESPN on ABC's race broadcasts have used "Always Bad Coverage" as a derisive backronym pertaining to the quality of

4116-545: The conclusion of the telecasts (i.e., "The preceding program has been paid for by ESPN, Inc." ). ESPN later signed a similar television rights contract with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2002, allowing it to produce and broadcast NBA games on ABC under a similar time buy arrangement on the broadcast network. Between 2000 and 2002, many ABC Sports programs utilized graphics almost identical to those used on ESPN. One notable exception

4200-519: The construction of the Shinkansen platforms and also to improve access to the new commercial development "Shinagawa Intercity". Keikyu introduced station numbering to its stations on 21 October 2010; Shinagawa was assigned station number KK01. Station numbering was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Shinagawa being assigned station numbers JT03 for the Tokaido Line, JO17 for

4284-479: The east side of the station. Shinagawa is one of Japan's oldest stations, opened on 12 June 1872, when the service between Shinagawa and Yokohama provisionally started, four months before the inauguration of "Japan's first railway" between Shimbashi and Yokohama through Shinagawa on 14 October 1872. This line is a part of the Tōkaidō Main Line. Nothing remains of the original structure. Later on 1 March 1885,

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4368-483: The eventual resignation of New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr., who had lent his name to the Championship fights and who was the son of former New York State Athletic Commissioner and former Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley , who had died one year prior to the scandal. Farley Jr., had accepted a hotel room which had been furnished by King. This was used by David W. Burke who at that time

4452-431: The first exclusive regular season telecast of a Major League Baseball game on ABC since 1989 , Matt Vasgersian , Alex Rodriguez , and Buster Olney wore special ABC Sports patches during Sunday Night Baseball on August 8, 2021 between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs . Special graphics inspired by The Baseball Network were also used in conjunction with the standard ESPN MLB graphics. The game also featured

4536-474: The first time when it aired the prelims of UFC 276 on July 2, 2022. In 2022, as part of a contract renewal with The Championships, Wimbledon , ABC began airing live weekend matches on ABC. In 2023, ABC aired weekend matches from the US Open for the first time. Shinagawa Station JO17 (Yokosuka Line) JK20 (Keihin-Tohoku Line) JY25 (Yamanote Line) Shinagawa Station ( 品川駅 , Shinagawa-eki )

4620-410: The front window. The concept for the bakery was to run an environmentally-friendly food business in a big city. It offered only ten pastries and four drinks, priced at $ 2 and $ 1, respectively. The bakery was built out of sustainable building materials like wheat board - a plywood-like material made from surplus straw and wheat - a cork floor and LED lights . The bakery, at 223 First Avenue, was located on

4704-399: The game to the sports fan, but recognized that television had to take fans to the game. In addition, he had the forethought to realize that the broadcasts needed to attract, and hold the attention of female viewers, as well as males. On September 17, 1960, the then-29-year-old Arledge put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham , Alabama, between

4788-569: The game, the network's first NFL regular season game in almost 15 years. This game was also the first NFL game to be played in the city of Las Vegas , and the first NFL game to be played in the state of Nevada . The gold jackets returned on October 31, 2022 MNF broadcast between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns , this time worn by the new top team of Joe Buck , Troy Aikman and Lisa Salters. To celebrate

4872-561: The month. The New York Times attributed a trend in high-quality hot chocolate in city eateries to the influence of City Bakery: " ... what is no mystery is the effect Mr. Rubin's hot chocolate had on the city's hot chocolate landscape. He opened the floodgates for the sea of serious hot chocolate contenders that exist in New York today." City Bakery also offers savory foods, salad, sandwiches, pizzas and soup. City Bakery operated at 22 East 17th Street from 1990 until April 2001, when it moved one block west across 5th Avenue to 3 West 18th Street,

4956-429: The most popular American sporting events. While Scherick was not interested in "For Men Only," he recognized the talent that Arledge had. Arledge realized ABC was the organization he was looking to become part of. The lack of a formal organization would offer him the opportunity to claim real power when the network matured. With this, he signed on with Scherick as an assistant producer, with Arledge eventually ascending to

5040-418: The network acquiring shares in the company. Scherick had formed the company after he left CBS , when the network would not make him the head of its sports programming unit (choosing to instead appoint former baseball public relations agent William C. McPhail). Before ABC Sports even became a formal division of the network, Scherick and ABC programming chief Tom Moore pulled off many programming deals involving

5124-426: The network's Sunday Night Football broadcasts. ESPN graphics were also utilized on ABC's motorsports telecasts, including IndyCar and NASCAR events, during this period. That same year, ESPN signed a five-year contract to televise National Hockey League (NHL) games, whereby the cable network essentially purchased time on ABC to air selected NHL games on the broadcast network. This was noted in copyright tags at

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5208-558: The network, and has continued to do so since. Beginning with the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament , select women's college basketball games have also aired on ABC. In December 2021, the first regular season women's college basketball game aired on ABC. In 2023, ABC aired the final of the Division I women's basketball tournament for the first time. On May 6, 2019, the XFL announced that ESPN and Fox Sports had acquired

5292-415: The new 2016–17 graphics package used on ABC replaces the ESPN logo in the score banner with several stars, while the ABC logo (still constantly on screen) anchors the right side of the banner; however for the 2017–18 season, the ESPN logo was reintroduced onto a revised version of the score banner with the ABC logo still located to the right, beginning with the 2022 College Football Season, the ESPN on ABC logo

5376-408: The present day, ABC was able to safely record events on videotape for later broadcast without worrying about an audience finding out the results. Arledge, his colleague Chuck Howard , and Jim McKay (who left CBS for this opportunity) made up the show on a week-by-week basis during the first year of Wide World ' s run. Arledge had a genius for the dramatic storyline that unfolded in the course of

5460-584: The primetime Monday Night Football and coined the famous "thrill of victory, agony of defeat" tagline first used on Wide World of Sports – although ABC insiders of that era attribute the authorship to legendary sports broadcaster Jim McKay. Over the next few years, the look of the network's sports telecasts became more intimate and entertaining as under Arledge, ABC introduced techniques such as slow motion replay, freeze frame , instant replay , split-screen, hand-held cameras, endzone cameras, underwater cameras and cameras on cranes. As part of an agreement with

5544-474: The program "changed the habits of the nation." In 1977, Arledge's executive responsibilities at ABC were expanded, and he was made president of ABC News while remaining as head of ABC Sports. In 1976, unscrupulous managing editor of The Ring , Johnny Ort, fabricated records of selected boxers, to elevate them, thereby securing them lucrative fights on the American ABC television network, as part of

5628-429: The pursuit of the perfect chocolate chip cookie, said: "what he's doing is brilliant." ABC Sports ESPN on ABC (formerly known as ABC Sports from 1961 to 2006) is the branding used for sports event and documentary programming televised by ABC in the United States. Officially, the broadcast network retains its own sports division; however, in 2006, ABC's sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. , which

5712-579: The rights to broadcast the league's return, with the broadcasts airing on ABC , ESPN , Fox , and FS1 , then later in 2023 on FX , with Fox Sports not opting to broadcast the XFL, leaving ESPN as the sole broadcast rights holder. The XFL later merged with Fox's United States Football League to form the United Football League ; ABC holds an ownership stake in the merged league. In 2020 , ABC returned to MLB coverage once again. This time it

5796-569: The start of the college football season, with NBA , IndyCar Series and NASCAR coverage eventually following suit. However, ABC used a separate graphics package (incorporating the network's own logo) during its coverage of the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee , which were similar to the older-styled ESPN graphics but with a yellow base. In 2008, though, it utilized the newer yellow and red ESPN graphics which had been used on other recent telecasts, but with

5880-549: The technical innovations envisioned by Arledge and through a new style of sportscaster embodied in Howard Cosell . ABC was the first network not to allow announcer approval by the league from which it was purchasing broadcast rights. Arledge said, " CBS had been the basic football network. They treated it like a religion and would almost never criticize it. But if you screwed up on Monday Night Football , Cosell would let everyone know about it." Arledge proudly pointed out that

5964-529: The telecasts. On the other hand, ESPN airs Major League Baseball games; however, ABC does not as Fox holds the broadcast television rights to the league's game telecasts. ABC would later air MLB postseason games in 2020 as part of the 2020 Wild Card Series . ABC would also air Sunday Night Baseball on August 8, 2021 between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs . This would be the first exclusive regular season telecast of Major League Baseball on ABC since 1989. The last live sporting event televised under

6048-435: The vice president of ABC Sports. That same year, Scherick left the sports division to become ABC's vice president of programming – leaving Arledge as the top executive at ABC Sports, although he would not gain a formal title as president for four years. In 1968, Arledge was formally appointed as president of ABC Sports. As the sports division's president for the succeeding 18 years, his job was his hobby; as he described it, it

6132-608: The western side of the station at a higher level than the JR platforms. Some Keikyu trains terminate at Shinagawa while others continue on to join the Toei Asakusa Line at Sengakuji . New ground level Keikyu platforms are currently undergoing construction and are expected to be completed around 2030 as part of the Keikyu's Continuous Grade Separation project. The Shinkansen platforms were opened on October 1, 2003, to relieve congestion at Tokyo Station . Platforms are on

6216-408: Was Monday Night Football , which switched to a different graphics package as part of then-new producer Don Ohlmeyer 's attempt to provide some renewed vigor into those telecasts. Subsequently, ABC changed graphics packages each fall from 2002 to 2005, while ESPN's basically remained consistent. Meanwhile, Disney continued to consolidate the corporate structure of ESPN and ABC Sports. Steve Bornstein

6300-621: Was a secretary of Governor Hugh Carey , to force Farley Jr.'s eventual resignation form the New York State Athletic commission. In August 1977 Mr. Arledge announced the appointment of David W. Burke, as his new assistant for administration, with the title of vice president. Mr. Burke helped develop programs including This Week with David Brinkley and Nightline , and had no prior television or journalism experience prior to his hiring by Arledge. No formal charges of impropriety were ever filed against Farley Jr.. The following year

6384-452: Was an homage to Cosell and the network's history of varied sports offerings. "That gold jacket was doing many extreme events; barrel jumping, Acapulco cliff diving. You can look at the history of legitimate sports coverage on ABC, ...that gold jacket was attached to a lot of sports that had one-year, two-year runs on Saturday afternoon on ABC ...I think it's something that Roone Arledge, who was always very forward-thinking, would recognize. ...in

6468-533: Was announced that ABC Sports would be totally integrated into ESPN, incorporating the graphics and music used by the cable channel and its related television properties, and production staff. The brand integration does not directly affect whether the ESPN cable channel or ABC carries a particular event, as in most cases this is governed by contracts with the applicable league or organization. Perhaps confusingly, this means that some events are broadcast with ESPN branding during ABC coverage, even though another channel owns

6552-455: Was given the title as president of both ESPN and ABC Sports in 1996. The sales, marketing, and production departments of both divisions were eventually merged. As a result, ESPN uses some union production crews for its coverage (as the networks normally do), whereas non-union personnel are quite common in cable sports broadcasting. In August 2006, in the wake of the moves of Monday Night Football to ESPN and Sunday Night Football to NBC , it

6636-488: Was good because he watched sports for work rather than leisure, but had a downside as he had no time left for leisure activities. He made sportsmen into stars, a trend he would later bring to the news division where he lured established anchors and correspondents such as David Brinkley and Diane Sawyer and paid unheard-of salaries, including the first million-dollar contract to Barbara Walters . Arledge personally produced all ten of ABC's Olympic Games broadcasts, created

6720-426: Was made to better orient ESPN viewers with event telecasts on ABC and provide consistent branding for all sports broadcasts on Disney-owned channels (shortly thereafter, ESPN2 's in-game graphics were likewise altered to simply use the main "ESPN" brand). Despite its name, ABC's sports coverage is supplemental to ESPN and (with occasional exceptions) not a simulcast of programs aired by the network. Since 2021, ABC

6804-589: Was part of ESPN 's Wild Card Series coverage, which was expanded due to the COVID-19 pandemic (ESPN and ABC are both primarily owned by The Walt Disney Company , and Disney integrated the ABC Sports division with ESPN in 2006). ABC aired three Wild Card Series games as part of this coverage. All coverage primarily used ESPN or ESPN on ABC branding. In 2021 , ABC aired their first regular season game since 1995, an August 8 Sunday Night Baseball game between

6888-590: Was the first time since 2005 that it aired a full season of MNF. In 2019, ABC aired the MLS Cup , its first Major League Soccer match since 2008. During the 2020 Major League Soccer season , ABC returned to airing regular season matches as well. ESPN did not renew its MLS deal after the 2022 season. ABC also aired matches from the German Bundesliga , Spanish La Liga , and the United States women's national soccer team . In 2021, ABC aired

6972-569: Was to entice customers to ask questions about the design materials the bakery was built from and hopefully discuss the environmental mission of the business with staff. Of the bakery with no name, New York magazine wrote: "When is a bakery not a bakery? When it’s a political statement, an architectural pioneer, and a bit of performance art, all wrapped in one." After six months, the bakery was formally named Birdbath Neighborhood Green Bakery, and has since expanded to five locations in SoHo , Midtown and

7056-596: Was uncovered by boxing writer Malcolm "Flash" Gordon and ABC staffer Alex Wallau . After Gordon and Wallau's evidence was presented to ABC executive Roone Arledge the United States Championship tournament was cancelled. Despite being hoodwinked and manipulated by Don King, in 1977 ABC made Arledge president of the then low-rated network news division, all while Arledge retained control of the Sports Division. The ABC Ring Scandal would lead to

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