Poll: What Exact Event Marked the Ultimate Decline of ABC Sports

Poll: What Exact Event Marked the Ultimate Decline of ABC Sports

*Cap-Cities buying the network (circa 1985)

*Disney buying the network (circa 1996)


*"Wide World of Sports" in its original format, gets cancelled (circa
1997-1998)


*ABC loses the rights to both Olympic Games following the 1988 Winter
Games in Calgary


*ABC loses "Monday Night Football" to ESPN (circa 2005-2006)


*ABC loses the rights to the Triple Crown to NBC (circa 2000-2001)


*Roone Arledge steps down as the president of ABC Sports (circa 1986)


*Keith Jackson retires and Al Michaels moves to NBC (circa 2006)


*George Bodenheimer becomes head of ABC Sports (circa 2003)


*Howard Cosell gets fired (circa 1985)


*Other


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Re: Poll: What Exact Event Marked the Ultimate Decline of ABC Sports

2002: Howard Katz signs longterm IRL deal, beginning in 2003.