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Locally in New York, boxing was a regular feature on WHN 1050, and to a lesser extent WMCA 570 from the 1930s through 1942, and on WMCA and until early 1949 on 1050. WMCA announcers included Sam Taub in the 1930s and the team of Joe O'Brien and Jimmy Power from 1940 to 1942.
The first sports event broadcast on radio in Europe was a Boxing contest for the Flyweight Championship of Great Britain and Europe between Elky Clark of Scotland and Kid Socks of England. relayed from the National Sporting Club in London on 26 February 1926. [10]
Boxing on ABC refers to a series of boxing events [1] that have been televised on the American Broadcasting Company.Many of these events aired under the Wide World of Sports [2] banner which began on April 11, 1964 when challenger Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, defeated champion Sonny Liston in the seventh round.
The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports is an American radio-turned-television program by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that ran from 1942 to 1960. [1] The program included broadcasts of a variety of sports, although it is primarily remembered for its focus on boxing matches.
WJY was a temporary longwave radio station, located in Hoboken, New Jersey and operated by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which was used on July 2, 1921, for a ringside broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight boxing match.
Colonel Bob Sheridan (April 2, 1944 – September 27, 2023) was an American boxing and MMA commentator. He broadcast over 10,000 fights on radio and television. [3] [4] Sheridan attended the University of Miami on a baseball scholarship and briefly played for the Class-A Miami Marlins after graduating in 1966.
The earliest incarnation of NBC's boxing telecasts could be traced back to 1944. Although technically, an anthology program, the Cavalcade of Sports was best known for Friday night boxing (from Madison Square Garden) on NBC from 1944 through 1960, and (after NBC decided against featuring boxing due to sensitivity over criminal allegations in the sport) then for several more years on ABC.
McNamee became well known for his broadcasts of numerous major sports events, including several World Series, Rose Bowl games, championship boxing matches, and Indianapolis 500 races. Radio broadcasting of sporting events was an entirely new thing in the 1920s. The announcers were a rotating group of newspaper writers.