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What Exactly Doomed ABC Sports?

What exact event marked the ultimate decline of ABC Sports?

  • 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 "gives" "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)

  • Cap-Cities buying the network (circa 1985)

  • The Pro Bowlers Tour gets cancelled (circa 1997)

  • ABC loses Major League Baseball to CBS (circa 1989)

  • Other

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How can ABC Sports begin as an independent sports division (in league with CBS Sports and NBC Sports) under the considerably innovative vision and guidance of Roone Arledge, and fronted by broadcasting giants such as Jim McKay, Al Michaels, Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, and Chris Schenkel to now a tacky run-off of ESPN (dubbed ESPN on ABC)? :'(
 
Cosell's Curse!
I voted Disney anyway
 
What no ABC didn't renew contract with NHL?

The TNT TV movie, Monday Night Mayhem was an great film about the behind the scenes of MNF and Roone Arledge's rise at ABC.
 
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