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...this, ABC will be aided by CBC's 104 cameras. The Canadian Olympic Radio-TV Organization (ORTO), with a staff of 1,850, will supply video coverage-as many as twelve live signals simultaneously to broadcasters from 70 countries-that will be beamed abroad via three satellites. Says Mason: "We've created a monster-but a friendly...
With 21 sports on the Olympic agenda, ABC could fill the time merely by televising athletes in action, an approach that would produce a yawn heard round the world. Says the network's planning director for the Games, Geoff Mason: "The Olympics are much more than two weeks of moving bodies. This is a convocation of mankind unique in the world, and we have to get that across. The participants are talented people, and to bring them out as people is as important as broadcasting the events." ABC will use interviews with nearly 70 athletes that were filmed during...
...final responsibility for what is shown belongs to Executive Producer Roone Arledge, who will be watching 32 monitors in ABC's control center. Explains Mason: "Once we hit the switch, Arledge will have to make instant program judgments." Another associate describes Arledge as "the guy who has to blend it all into one piece. If he does it well, it's a symphony. If not, it's just a lot of noise...
...superstar fame), O.J. Simpson (he ran sprints before sweeps) and Wyomia Tyus (100-meter gold medalist in 1964 and 1968). Jackson, along with Bill Flemming and former Olympic Stars Mark Spitz, Donna de Varona and Micki King, will cover swimming and diving, while Chris Schenkel with Cathy Rigby Mason, America's Olga Korbut, will report gymnastics. Boxing and freestyle wrestling will be called by familiar Mouth Howard Cosell and Face Frank Gifford, respectively. For basketball, Old Pros Curt Gowdy and Bill Russell will be at the mike. Coaches of several sports will also assist...
Frustrated at not being able to take part in such debates, Virginia's Jefferson sat down in Philadelphia and wrote his own outline for a constitution, sending it back to Williamsburg with his mentor, Lawyer George Wythe. By the time Wythe got there, however, the many arguments over Mason's draft had finally been settled. Chairman Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished lawyer, said that the members "could not, from mere lassitude, have been induced to open the instrument again." But they did like Jefferson's preamble, which contains many of the same ideas that Jefferson has included...