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Chuck Howard
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He graduated from Duke University in 1955, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Career
Early life and career Following his college graduation, Howard entered the management training program at Chase Manhattan Bank. In 1960, he made an abrupt career turn and became a production assistant at Edgar J. Scherick"s company, Sports Programs, Incorporated., the forerunner to American Broadcasting Company Sports. American Broadcasting Company Sports In 1961, Roone Arledge charged him with scouting sports events throughout the world in an effort to discover sports that had a loyal following but might be unknown to American television viewers.
The result was the April 21, 1961 debut of American Broadcasting Company"s Wide World of Sports, the groundbreaking television sports anthology program
Arledge, Howard and commentator Jim McKay created the show on a week-by-week basis during its first year of broadcast, establishing a sports television tradition in the process. Howard went on to become a vice president for programming at American Broadcasting Company Sports and covered nine Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, World Series, British Open, Kentucky Derby, Indianapolis 500 and National Collegiate Athletic Association football -- as well as Acapulco cliff diving, Demolition Derby, rodeos, bobsled racing, arm wrestling and Evel Knievel"s daredevil antics.
Howard is credited with being the first to use a split screen and an isolated camera to highlight a part of a play away from the main action. On April 8, 1967, due to an American Federation TV and Radio Artists strike, Howard and director Chet Forte filled-in as commentators for Game 4 of the National Basketball Association Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers.
He oversaw the broadcast of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, notable for the massacre of 11 Israeli team members by Palestinian terrorists.
Departure from American Broadcasting Company and later career In 1986, Howard left American Broadcasting Company and became the executive producer for the Big Ten Conference"s football and basketball broadcasts. Death Howard died of brain cancer on November 21, 1996 in Pound Ridge, New New York
Achievements
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Wide World of Sports became the longest-running continuing series on American Broadcasting Company, and it won numerous Peabody Awards and Emmy Awards. Howard himself won 11 Emmy Awards as a producer. In 2009, Chuck Howard was one of the eight inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in New York, New New York
