Trans World Sport

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Trans World Sport
Trans World Sport logo.jpg
current logo
Genre Sport [1]
Created by Mark McCormack [1] [2] [3] [4]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time49 minutes
Production company IMG Media
Original release
Network Channel 4 [5] [6]
Release27 May 1987 (1987-05-27) –
31 December 2025 (2025-12-31)

Trans World Sport (TWS), originally stylised Transworld Sport (still used in some television listings and electronic program guides) was a sports-orientated television programme produced by IMG Media in London, England. It was shown worldwide, on a variety of syndicated television channels. [5] [6] [7] [8] It was the world's longest running weekly international television sports programme, and had been in continuous production every week from 5 May 1987;38 years ago to 31 December 2025. It was shown in over fifty countries, with a household reach of nearly two-hundred million. Trans World Sport has brought coverage of many events, together with off-beat and esoteric stories from the world of sport. [9]

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The show was the idea of IMG founder, Mark McCormack. [10] [11] Trans World Sport have had features on a variety of sports stars, including a 16-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, a 14-year-old Tiger Woods, a teenage Virat Kohli, Usain Bolt, and Roger Federer, and on a 12-year-old Venus Williams and her 11-year-old sister, Serena Williams.[ citation needed ]

Trans World Sport covered numerous different sports, and filmed with many World and Olympic champions. Out of the 203 International Olympic Committee (IOC) member nations, the show visited 183 of them; including North Korea and Papua New Guinea.[ citation needed ]

The first show was narrated by Gerald Sinstadt. After a succession of different narrators in the early 1990s, the show settled on narrators, Sue Carpenter and Bruce Hammal. [12]

On 26 December 2025, it was announced that after 38 years on the air Trans World Sport would end production at the end of December 2025. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 James F. Larson; Heung-Soo Park (28 December 1993). Global Television and the Politics of the Seoul olympics. James F. Larson. ISBN   978-0-8133-1694-9 . Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Gregory Peters (9 April 2003). The Man of la Manga. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN   978-1-4628-2090-0 . Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Martin Kelner (1 December 2012). Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN   978-1-4081-2923-4 . Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Guy Masterman (8 September 2010). Strategic Sports Event Management. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-136-43517-1 . Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Trans World Sport returns to Channel 4 in 2014". Sport-OnTheBox.com. Sport on the Box. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Trans World Sport to return to UK TV Channel 4 in the new year". IMG.com. IMG Media . Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Financial genius who revolutionised sport". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Michael Carlson (17 May 2003). "Obituary: Mark McCormack". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Jonathan Liew: Whatever happened to all the weird and wonderful sports we used to get on mainstream TV?". The Daily Telegraph. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "Obituary: Mark McCormack". BBC News. 16 May 2003. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  11. ↑ Matthew D. Shank; Mark R. Lyberger (3 October 2014). Sports Marketing: A Strategic perspective (5th ed.). Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-74345-3 . Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "Trans World Sport celebrates 25 years with IQUIZ app". IMG.com. IMG Media. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  13. ↑ @TransWorldSport (26 December 2025). "After 38 years, Trans World Sport signs off for the final time at the end of 2025. Thank you for every story, every athlete, every viewer. It's been an honour to share the world of sport with you. 🌍❤️ #TransWorldSport #EndOfAnEra" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 December 2025– via Twitter.{{Cite tweet}}: |date= / |number= mismatch (help)
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