I hope y'all will reply to this remember early this month the San Diego State Aztecs were in the NCAA Men's Final Four championship game but lost to UConn??????????
Imagine this: for weeks, ABC plans to open up its 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon slot for a new but completely unannounced show. You sit down that day, and these chords swell up. Worldwide sports, strange and new, is back.
XETV began in 1953 and was initially an independent station serving neighboring San Diego. Meantime, some ABC programs were seen on the NBC and CBS affiliates. ABC and XETV were eventually able to convince the FCC and the Mexican equivalent to that agency to allow XETV to become an ABC affiliate and directly feed ABC programming to Tijuana. I'm not certain about this, but I heard an urban legend thst when XETV first got it's ABC affiliation, it installed a large amplified receiving antenna aimed at Mt. Wilson on their transmitting tower and supposedly picked up ABC programs off air from KABC Los Angeles until a direct feed if network shows to Tijuana was established. Once UHF stations got started in San Diego, ABC was forced to disaffillate from XETV.
Nine years later, channel 6 would cease operations in San Diego and became an affiliate of Mexican network Canal 5 that only serves Tijuana. The station’s affiliation contract with The CW was originally set to expire in September 2017; however in January of that year the station asked the network’s owners to disaffiliate from the network early. They were granted the request, but the earliest date that was available was May 31. As a result the originally targeted date for the switch, March 31, was instead used for the date of the shutdown of the news department.
I read years ago that they kept him in the opening credits because he received royalties from it, and the injuries he had received were horrendous and this was one of their ways to help him.
There's only one English Mexican TV station serving the United States as of November 2020: XHRIO-TDT "CW 15," Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving Brownsville and McAllen, Texas.
Slim Pickens line in Blazing Saddles bought me here. "...I hired you people to try to get a little track laid not jump around like a bunch of Kansas City..." well, you know the rest. Hahaha!
The Wide World or Sports theme was ghost-written by Charles Fox (then 24 yrs old) for $500. That theme opened every show for all 33 years. Though Fox didn't receive screen credit there, it did lead directly to him writing the original theme for "ABC's Monday Night Football" and a host of other tv themes including "Love American Style", "Happy Days" "Love Boat", "Wonder Woman" and "Laverne & Shirley". Fox also wrote the Grammy winning song "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and was voted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2004.
The poor "agony of defeat" guy is a Yugoslavian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj at an event in Germany in 1970. He suffered a concussion and broken ankle on that. He's still alive at 72 and has enjoyed his unusual piece of fame ever since..
