Jim McKay
Jim McKay (born James Kenneth McManus, * September 24, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † June 7, 2008 in Monkton, Baltimore County, Maryland) was an American sportscaster, who mainly through its incisive Catch Phrases ( Tags ) popular had. He was also known outside of America by his coverage of the hostage-taking of Munich during the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Biography
McKay initially grew up in Philadelphia. At 13, his family moved to Baltimore. There he attended the Jesuit school, Loyola Blakefield, which he left in 1943 with a bachelor's degree. He spent the next three years in the United States Navy, including as a minesweeper in Brazil.
From 1946 to 1947 he worked as a police reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun. When the newspaper in 1947 a television station, WMAR - TV founded, he joined this channel as a writer, producer and broadcaster. In 1950 he moved to CBS, where he worked as host of a variety show called "The Real McKay ". To correspond with the title of the show, he was summarily renamed Jim McKay.
In the 1950s, he worked in a variety of fields moderation, including for weather reports, game shows and Politics Magazine. Over time, crystallized as a focus of his work, the sports coverage out. In 1960, he was to take over the coverage of the Winter Olympics, but suffered a nervous breakdown in advance. The Summer Olympic Games in Rome were then made his debut as a sports reporter. Overall, he should report on eleven Olympiads, for the last time in 2002 for NBC.
In the collective memory was his coverage of the Summer Olympics of 1972, when the Palestinian group Black September took eleven members of the Israeli team hostage and this later in a failed rescue attempt were killed. McKay reported for the ABC 16 hours live on the Taking of Hostages.
" When I was a kid, my father used to say our greatest hopes and worst fears are seldom Realized. Our worst fears were Realized tonight ... They're all gone. ( Free translation: When I was a child, my father always told me that our greatest hopes and worst fears are seldom reality were tonight our worst fears truth - you are all of us went [ the hostages ]. . ) "
In addition to the Olympics, he reported on numerous other sporting events, such as the Kentucky Derby, the British Open and the Indianapolis 500 One of his last major reports was about the World Cup 2006. During his career he won twelve Emmys.
Jim McKay was also the founder of horse racing Maryland Million Classic. His son, Sean McManus is president of news and sports department of the CBS.
2008 Jim McKay died at the age of 86 years.