hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in the Miracle on Ice. McKay also hosted from the studio the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. They're all gone.Īlthough McKay received numerous accolades for his reporting of the Munich hostage crisis (including two Emmy Awards, one for sports and one for news reporting), he stated in a 2003 HBO documentary about his life and career that he was most proud of a telegram he received from Walter Cronkite the day after the massacre praising his work. They have now said there were 11 hostages two were killed in their rooms this morn- yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. When I was a kid my father used to say "Our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized." Our worst fears have been realized tonight. Central European Time, McKay came on the air with this statement: After an unsuccessful rescue attempt of the athletes held hostage, at 3:24 a.m. He was on air for fourteen hours without a break, during a sixteen-hour broadcast. While covering the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics for ABC, McKay took on the job of reporting the events live on his only scheduled day off during the Games, substituting for Chris Schenkel.
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Over the years, McKay worked with race drivers in commentary, including triple Formula One World Champion Jackie Stewart, triple Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser, and Sam Posey. McKay was known to motor racing fans as the host of the ABC's annual delayed telecast of the Indianapolis 500. He moved on to ABC in 1961, and was the host of ABC's influential Wide World of Sports for 37 years. He had a six-episode stint as host of the game show Make the Connection on NBC in 1955. McKay recovered in time to host the 1960 Summer Olympics from the CBS Television studio in Grand Central Terminal. He was originally tabbed to be the lead broadcaster of the network's coverage of the 1960 Winter Olympics, but had to be replaced by Walter Cronkite after suffering a mental breakdown. In 1956- 57, McKay teamed with Chris Schenkel to call CBS telecasts of New York Giants football.
Through the 1950s, sports commentary became more and more his primary assignment for CBS. From 1958 to 1960, McKay served as host and commentator on the CBS television daytime program The Verdict Is Yours. McKay remained with the station until joining CBS in New York in 1950 as host of a variety show, called The Real McKay, which necessitated the changing of his on-air surname. His was the first voice ever heard on television in Baltimore.
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In 1947, McKay gave up his job as a reporter for The Evening Sun to join that same organization's new TV station WMAR-TV. During this time, he also met Margaret Dempsey, his future wife. He was promoted to aviation reporter instead of getting a raise. In 1946, McKay returned to Baltimore and took a position with The Evening Sun as a police reporter. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as the captain of a minesweeper. He received a bachelor's degree from Loyola College in Maryland in 1943. When McKay was 14, he and his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended Loyola High School (now Loyola Blakefield). He attended Our Lady of Lourdes Grade School and Saint Joseph's Preparatory School. McKay was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Overbrook section of the city in an Irish American Catholic family. McKay's son, Sean McManus, a protégé of Roone Arledge, is the chairman of CBS Sports. McKay covered a wide variety of special events, including horse races such as the Kentucky Derby, golf events such as the British Open, and the Indianapolis 500. He is also known for television coverage of 12 Olympic Games, and is universally respected for his memorable reporting on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His introduction for that program has passed into American pop culture, in which viewers were reminded of the show's mission ("Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports") and what lay ahead ("the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"). McKay was best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998). James Kenneth McManus (Septem– June 7, 2008), better known professionally as Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist.
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