List of Pan American Games commentators

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ABC was the first American television network to broadcast the Pan American Games in 1963, when they devoted one episode of their Wide World of Sports anthology program to the games. The doubled their coverage to two episodes of the show in 1967.

Contents

1960s

1963

NetworkHoursHost
ABC [1] 1 1/2 Jim McKay

1967

NetworkHoursHost
ABC 3 Jim McKay

Notes

1970s

1975

NetworkHoursHost Play-by-play Color commentators
CBS 7 2/3 Pat Summerall Jack Whitaker (Athletics and Boxing)
Brent Musburger (Swimming and Baseball)
Adrian Metcalfe (Synchronized Swimming)
Bill Toomey (Athletics)
Sugar Ray Leonard (Boxing)
Keena Rothhammer (Swimming)
Kim Ocean-Smith (Synchronized Swimming)

1979

NetworkHoursHost Play-by-play Color commentators
CBS 12 1/4 Dick Stockton [2] [3] [4] Jack Whittaker
Curt Gowdy [5] [6]
Tim Ryan (Boxing)
Irv Cross
Gary Bender (Basketball)
Jayne Kennedy [7] (Wrestling and Sailing)
Muriel Grossfeld (Gymnastics)
Gil Clancy (Boxing)
Wilma Rudolph (Athletics)
Rick Barry [8] (Basketball)

1980s

1983

NetworkHoursHost Play-by-play Color commentators
CBS 15 1/2 Brent Musburger [9] Gary Bender (Basketball)
Tim Ryan (Boxing)
Dick Stockton (Swimming)
John Tesh [10] (Gymnastics and Athletics)
Pat O'Brien [11] [12] (Other Sports and Breaking Events)
John Dockery (Other Sports and Breaking Events)
Billy Packer (Basketball)
Gil Clancy (Boxing)
John Naber (Swimming)
Phil Boggs (Diving)
Peter Kormann (Gymnastics)
Craig Masback (Athletics)

1987

NetworkHoursHost Play-by-play Color commentators
CBS 26 Brent Musburger Verne Lundquist [13] (Basketball)
Tim Ryan (Boxing)
Tim Brant (Gymnastics)
Dick Stockton [14] (Athletics and Basketball)
Jim Nantz [15] (Swimming and Diving)
John Dockery [16] (Baseball)
Chris Marlowe [17] (Volleyball)
Pat O'Brien (Roving Reporter)
Anne Butler (Roving Reporter)
James Brown [18] (Roving Reporter)
Irv Cross (Roving Reporter)
Bob Drum (Features)
Ron Luciano (Guest Essayist)
John Cougar Mellencamp (Guest Essayist)
George Plimpton (Guest Essayist)
Linda Ellerbee (Guest Essayist)
Billy Packer [19] [20] (Basketball)
Gil Clancy (Boxing)
Bart Conner (Gymnastics)
Kathy Johnson (Gymnastics)
John Naber (Swimming)
Mark Marquess [21] (Baseball)
Craig Masback [22] [23] (Athletics)
Mary Decker Slaney [24] (Athletics)
Phil Boggs (Diving)
Jerry Yeagley (Soccer)

1990s

1991

NetworkHoursHost Play-by-play Color commentators
ABC [25]
TNT
22 (ABC); 26 1/2 [26] (TNT); 2 (TBS) (Total Hours ABC/TNT/TBS combined: 50 1/2) Brent Musburger [27] [28] [29] [30]
Ernie Johnson Jr. [31] [32] and Nick Charles (Opening and Closing Ceremonies)
Ron Thulin [33] [34] (Basketball)
Mark Jones (Boxing)
Gary Bender (Gymnastics)
John Naber (Swimming)
Bob Beattie (Volleyball)
Jack Arute [35] (Cycling, Tennis, Soccer, and Features)
Craig Sager [36] (Features)
Nicole Watson [37] ("sideline reporter", Opening and Closing Ceremonies)
Jim Valvano [38] [39] (Basketball)
Cheryl Miller [40] (Basketball)
Alex Wallau (Boxing)
Bart Conner (Gymnastics)
Kathy Johnson (Gymnastics)
Donna de Varona (Swimming)
Chris Marlowe [41] (Volleyball)
Hubie Brown [42] (Basketball)

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