Talk:Wide World of Sports (American TV program)

Trivia

If anyone cares, former Miss Kentucky (I think) Julie Moran was first woman to host WWoS. Trekphiler 14:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Its Everlasting Legacy

Wide World may be gone, but its not forgotten by those who love the show, I know I'm a big fan of the show for about 33 years. Its legacy is now pass to the likes of Versus, FOX Sports, Speed Channel, NBC Sports, and so on. Even non-sports cable networks were inspired by Wide World like the MSNBC, Travel Channel, and the Learning Channel. So Wide World really gave birth to so many cable channels and maybe even more in the years to come. Joey Chesnavich 12:25, 17 February 2007

Correction

The Electric Light Orchestra's Fire on High was NOT heard on Wide World of Sports, instead it was used as the opening theme for the CBS's Sports Spectacular from 1976 to 1978. Joey Chesnavich 11:25, 7 August 2007

This agrees with my recollection, and with the Fire on High page. Let's just delete it. Rsfinn 04:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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Classic Wide World of Sports

ESPN Classic is currently airing Classic Wide World of Sports, and various Wide World of Sports events have been released on DVD. Nothing of this is noted in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coffee4binky (talk • contribs) 17:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page not moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:19, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series) → Wide World of Sports — Clear primary topic for the ABC Show. Disambiguation page only contains two other pages; and the ESPN attraction is a reference to the ABC show. We can leave a hatnote on the ABC Show Purplebackpack89 23:55, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

• Wide World of Sports → Wide World of Sports (disambiguation)

• Oppose. There's no primary topic. And I can't see any reference to the ESPN (formerly Disney) complex being named after the US TV series. It looks like an honest three-way DAB to me, and I suspect that there will be more candidates for such an obvious name if only we look for them. Andrewa (talk) 01:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Added one already. Andrewa (talk) 01:28, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
  • See also http://reason.com/archives/2005/04/01/wide-world-of-sports and http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_11_36/ai_n13490449/ (same article) but I'm not quite sure how the headline relates to the book...! Andrewa (talk) 01:51, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose - per Andrewa. Also, the US version is discontinued while the Australian version continues and has a significant cultural position in that country. LunarLander // talk // 02:12, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

That's not a good reason. The American show aired in many more homes than the Australian one, and gave rise to ESPN. Can you give definitive statistical proof that ABC's Wide World of Sports is not the primary topic? Purplebackpack89 04:31, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

• Comment It doesn't work that way. If you want the move to go ahead, you have to produce statistical proof that ABC's Wide World of Sports is the primary topic. All you have produced so far is your assertion that it is. Skinsmoke (talk) 07:09, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Comment: Agree that the onus of proof is on the proposer. And while it's not even obvious what the relevance of the claim is, I'm also still interested in the claim repeated above that The American show... gave rise to ESPN. Is this speculation, or is there some evidence? No change of vote. Andrewa (talk) 13:27, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I may have not delivered definitive proof yet (and using the Internet may not be the best tool for it, since the Wide World of Sports went off the air before much Internet), but neither have you, Andrew Purplebackpack89 15:31, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Agree. Actually, I'm a little skeptical that definite proof is possible in many cases. Another problem with this one is that the Internet is skewed in favour of North American topics, a skew Wikipedia does not seek to reflect as an international encyclopedia. But the proposer of a contested move does need to produce some sort of evidence, whether other evidence is produced or not, otherwise the move does not proceed. In this case there is evidence against, in that both shows are popular national shows, but one is current and continuing to draw large audiences while the other has been canned (all this is from the articles concerned), but none in favour. So if there were a primary topic, it wouldn't be the one proposed anyway. But it's unlikely that there is, on the evidence so far.

As for the hatnote rather than disambig proposal, there's even less evidence. You claim that the former Disney site is named after the (US) TV show. If so it's a bit surprising that the article doesn't say this, is it not? At the risk of argument from silence, the evidence we have so far is that this claim is incorrect too. Andrewa (talk) 20:26, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Hmmmm... on digging a bit, it's possible that you're right about the naming. Disney took control of ESPN in 1995, two years before the complex opened. So from that we might guess that Disney intended at that stage to brand engineer the two to support each other, rather than just chose an obvious and catchy name for the complex which they just happened to be already using in another context. But it's guesswork, and not supported by the fact that at this stage they called the complex Disney rather than ESPN. It still seems to me that both need separate entries at the DAB page. Andrewa (talk) 20:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose To try and help out a bit (honest), a quick Google search for Wide World of Sports plus ABC but excluding Wikipedia gives 69,900 hits; plus Channel 9 or Channel Nine but excluding Wikipedia gives 15,600 (plus Channel 9 or Channel Nine or Australia but excluding Wikipedia gives 59,600); plus Disney but excluding Wikipedia gives 157,000. That would seem to indicate that the Disney complex is now the primary topic. On balance, it's probably better to leave things just as they are. Skinsmoke (talk) 23:41, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I probably should just throw in the towel now. I had assumed figures would eventually back up a primary topic of the ABC show, but I guess I was wrong Purplebackpack89 01:29, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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Series debut

The original telecast of the debut installment of this series was shown in its entirety on ESPN Classic from 11:00 am (ET) to 1:30 pm on Monday, November 28, 2011. The information concerning the broadcasters involved came directly from this source. The Ink Daddy! (talk) 22:48, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Theme song composer

Charles Fox is credited here with the theme song composition, yet there is no citation. Other sources (IMDb and Television's Greatest Hits, Vol. II liner notes) attribute the theme to Irving Robbin & Jack Shaindlin, with only "series music" attributed to Fox. Which is correct? Was there more than one theme? --2600:1008:B007:EBC6:A8F8:D95B:9513:A92E (talk) 00:42, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:ABC's Wide World of Sports for deletion

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Wide Wide World

HI The Wide Wide World article hits at a connection between the two programs. If this is true, is there a place in the Wide World of SPorts article to acknowledge the connection.

184.74.6.131 (talk) 17:47, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

References

Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man

I think this show used Copland as a theme. Is that incorrect? 142.205.202.71 (talk) 22:14, 15 September 2023 (UTC)