It saddens me to announce that Sports broadcast legend Jim McKay has passed away this morning at the age of 86. McKay is the television sportscaster who told the world that a hostage situation at the 1972 Olympics in Munich had turned into a massacre of the Israeli team, a tragedy that anyone who was older then 8 years old at the time would remember hearing.
Jim was the host for 37 long years of ABC’s Wide World of Sports, from 1961 when it first aired until 1997 when it went off the air. In his career he traveled an amazing 4,500,000 miles in order to cover 100 sporting events in over 40 countries worldwide. Jim McKay was also the first sportscaster to win an Emmy award, and amazingly went on to win 12 more for a total of 13 Emmy’s. He passed away in Monkton, Maryland after a battle with a lengthy illness.
Jun 07 2008
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