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...wish for someone else to win, just in the interest of seemliness and hospitality, if not future international relations. But the athletes can hardly be expected to understand any such qualm, particularly those whose true primes passed silently in 1980, and who therefore never really had a prime. Maybe ABC is not just being parochial or pragmatic in seeming to do little else but pan from one American face to another, because frankly it has been hard to look away. Almost to a man and woman, they are crying...
Another objective, for a possible career after his legs no longer support him, led him one night to the ABC control center, where he sat behind Roone Arledge while the network chieftain called the shots for the evening's coverage. Lewis has worked for the past few months at the local ABC affiliate in Houston as an intern, learning what goes on behind the scenes as well as doing on-camera sports interviews. The process fascinates him. After a while, Arledge turned around from the blinking panel of screens and asked, "Do you want to try it?" Replied Lewis...
...circus-like gathering of world journalists, ABC is the focus...
...They seem to have a compunction to ask consistently if the sport is making it," added Malin. Malin, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard, provided play-by-play commentary for the videotape that ABC kept of the soccer competition at Harvard. He is also the color commentator for television coverage of the New York Cosmos of the NASL...
...ABC spokesman said that decisions as to what sports will be covered are made by the day's producer based on his judgement as to where viewer interest lies. Thomas G. Osenton added that it is still impossible to say whether the semifinals and finals of ther competition in California will be seen on American television...