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News reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun
As the title says. After that he got to be on their first TV station! -
Jim Mckay gets his own show on CBS
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Jim Mckay joins ABC's Wide World of Sports
He started in 1961 and went on for over 40 years. He was the anchor and talked about everying from skiiing to weight lifting! -
The Munich,Germany Olympic Games
He proved to be a great journalist and broadcaster during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. During that event, he and some atheletes were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists who killed 2 other atheletes previously. -
He won both news and sports Emmy Award.
Jim Mckay won these awards at the Munich, Olympic Games in Germany along with the prestigious George Polk Memorial Award. -
He got his 12th Emmy.
This award was for his talents as a writter for the ABC sports coverage of the 1987 Indianapolis 500, the british open and the Kentucky Derby. He was the only broadcaster to have won a Emmy for sports and news broadcasting and writing. He got 13 total. -
Peabody Award
He got this award along with Olympic Order and was put into the broadcasting Hall of Fame after getting his Emmy in 1988. -
Jim Mckay gets awarded a emmy for a sports epcial
The award was for his work, Athletes and Addiction: It's Not a Game. Before this he got the peabody award. -
Death
He ded.
