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The following is a list of commentators that were featured in the American Broadcasting Company's (ABC) television coverage of the Olympic Games from the its first Olympic Games, the 1964 Winter Olympics through the 1988 Winter Olympics, its final Olympic telecast to date.
Hosts
Winter Olympic Games
Summer Olympic Games
| Year | Prime-Time Host | Daytime Host(s) | Late-Night Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Chris Schenkel[20] | ||
| 1972 | Chris Schenkel[21] | ||
| 1976 | Jim McKay[1] | ||
| 1984 | Jim McKay[22] | Frank Gifford[23] Kathleen Sullivan[24] |
Jim Lampley[25] Donna de Varona[26] |
By event
Winter Olympics
1964
| Event | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Skiing | Jim McKay[27] | Andrea Mead Lawrence[28] Willy Schaeffler[29] |
| Figure Skating | ||
| Bobsled | Stan Benham[32] | |
| Ice hockey | Curt Gowdy[33] | |
| Speed skating | Curt Gowdy |
Jim McKay,[34] Curt Gowdy,[35] and Jim Simpson[36] were the only play-by-play announcers that were utilized by ABC throughout the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Beginning in 1962, Dick Button worked as a figure skating analyst for ABC Sports, which had acquired the rights to the United States Figure Skating Championships as well as the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships. During ABC's coverage of figure skating events in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Button became the sport's best-known analyst, well known for his frank and often caustic appraisal of skaters' performances. He won an Emmy Award in 1981 for Outstanding Sports Personality – Analyst. Although other U.S. television networks aired the Winter Olympics from the 1990s onward, Button still appeared on ABC's broadcasts of the U.S. and World Figure Skating Championships until ABC removed them from its broadcast schedule in 2008.
According to writer and figure skating historian Ellyn Kestnbaum, Button "in effect educated entire generation in how to watch skating", viewers who had never viewed the sport as live spectators before seeing it on television.[37]
1968
| Event | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Skiing | Jim McKay | |
| Figure Skating | Chris Schenkel[38] | Dick Button[39] |
| Hockey | Curt Gowdy[40] | |
| Ski Jumping | Art Devlin[41] |
1976
| Features | Jim Lampley[54] Pierre Salinger[55][56] |
|---|
ABC Sports hired Bob Beattie as a ski-racing commentator, where he was frequently paired with Frank Gifford, a former NFL running back. Beattie's television work included alpine commentary during ABC's coverage of four Winter Olympics in 1976, 1980, 1984,[57] and 1988,[58] and also covered volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[59] He later worked as ABC's winter sports correspondent, which also involved non-alpine sports,[60] and occasionally worked as an announcer for non-winter sports on ABC's Wide World of Sports program.[61]
1980[62][63]6263">edit
| Features | Jim Lampley[81] Don Meredith[82] |
|---|
One of Al Michaels's more famous broadcasts were of the 1980 Winter Olympics ice hockey medal round match between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the attempted third game of the 1989 World Series.
In 1980, an unheralded group of college ice hockey players from the United States won the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games. The medal round match on February 22—which, contrary to popular belief, did not yet assure the team of the gold medal—was of particular interest, as it was played against a heavily favored professional squad from the Soviet Union, and was in front of an incredibly excited pro-American crowd in Lake Placid, New York. Michaels's memorable broadcast of this game, including his interjection—"Do you believe in miracles? YES!"—as time expired on the 4–3 U.S. victory, earned the game the media nickname of The Miracle on Ice.
Most assume that the game was broadcast live (indeed, CTV, which held Canadian rights to the game, aired it live); but in reality, the game started at 5:05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and ABC decided against pre-empting local and network news (on the East Coast) to carry the game live. Instead, most of it—including the entire third period—was broadcast within the regularly scheduled, prime-time telecast from 8:30 to 11 p.m. Eastern time (and on a six-and-a-half-hour delay on the West Coast from 8:30 to 11 p.m. Pacific Standard Time). Despite being on tape, the game was one of the highest-rated programs of the 1979–80 television season and remains the most-watched ice hockey game in the history of American television.[83]
Michaels, along with broadcasting partner Ken Dryden, recreated their Olympic commentary in the 2004 movie Miracle. Although Michaels and Dryden recreated the bulk of their commentary for the film, the closing seconds of the game against the Soviet Union used the original ABC Sports commentary from 1980. Gavin O'Connor, the director of Miracle, decided to use the last 10 seconds of Michaels's original "Do you believe in miracles? YES!" call in the film because he felt he couldn't ask him to recreate the emotion he experienced at that moment. Thus they cleaned up the recording to make the transition to the authentic call as seamless as possible.
Immediately before Mike Eruzione's game-winning goal for the US, Dryden expressed his concern that the team was "depending a little bit too much" on goaltender Jim Craig after Craig had just made "too many good saves."
Michaels later recalled, "When I look back, obviously Lake Placid would be the highlight of my career. I can't think of anything that would ever top it. I can't dream up a scenario."
Michaels was only on this particular assignment because he had done one hockey game,[84] eight years prior. The game in question was the gold medal game (the Soviet Union vs. Czechoslovakia) of the 1972 Winter Olympics (on NBC) in Sapporo, Japan. Other announcers on the ABC Sports roster such as Keith Jackson, Frank Gifford, and Howard Cosell had never done a hockey game before. Michaels recalled this during a Real Sports interview in January 2009. Michaels also apparently beat out WABC-AM and New York Islanders commentator George Michael for the assignment.[85][86]
Two days later, Michaels would broadcast the gold medal game, in which the U.S. defeated Finland, closing the game out by declaring "This impossible dream comes true!"
Al Michaels continued serving as ABC's lead play-by-play announcer for their ice hockey coverage for their next two Winter Olympics, both with Dryden, the lead color commentator. In 1984 from Sarajevo, Mike Eruzione, who was the captain of the gold medal-winning United States ice hockey team from 1980, primarily worked with Don Chevrier. For ABC's final Winter Olympics four years later, Eruzione was this time, paired with Jiggs McDonald.
1984edit
| Features | Hughes Rudd[108] Ray Gandolf Jim Lampley[109] Dick Schaap[110] Anne Simon Terre Blair Barbara Kolonay[111] |
|---|
1988edit
| Features | Donna de Varona[139] Becky Dixon[140] Jim Hill[141] Tim McCarver[142] Jack Whitaker[143] (essayist) Dan Dierdorf[144] Cheryl Miller[145] |
|---|
Summer Olympicsedit
1968edit
1972edit
| Event | Play-by-play | Color commentators |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Ceremony | Jim McKay |
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