Trans World Sport

Trans World Sport
current logo
GenreSport[1]
Created byMark McCormack[1][2][3][4]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time49 minutes
Production companyIMG Media
Original release
NetworkChannel 4[5][6]
Release27 May 1987 (1987-05-27) –
present

Trans World Sport (TWS), originally stylized Transworld Sport (still used in some television listings and electronic program guides) is a sports-orientated television program produced by IMG Media in London, England. It is shown worldwide, on a variety of syndicated television channels.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] It is the world's longest running weekly international television sports program, and has been in continuous production every week since 5 May 1987; 37 years ago (1987-05-05). Today, it is shown over fifty countries, with a household reach of nearly two-hundred million. For over 25 years, Trans World Sport has brought the top names and events, together with off-beat and esoteric stories from the world of sport.[12]

The show was the brainchild of IMG founder, and sports marketing pioneer, Mark McCormack.[13][14] Since its very first show, Trans World Sport's objective has remained the same; to bring its viewers the best, the most interesting, and most informative stories from the world of sport. Their mantra has always been that there is no hierarchy in sport, and the idea is that what happens in La Liga has always been as important as what happens at the King's Cup Sepaktakraw World Championship. They have had features on several 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.

Trans World Sport has covered hundreds of different sports, and filmed with a countless number of World and Olympic champions. Out of the 203 International Olympic Committee (IOC) member nations, they have been to 183 of them; including North Korea and Papua New Guinea, while in 2012, they even filmed in Somalia.

The first show was narrated by Gerald Sinstadt. After a succession of different narrators in the early nineties, the show settled on its current narrators, Sue Carpenter and Bruce Hammal.[15]

See also

References

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  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. ^ a b "Trans World Sport returns to Channel 4 in 2014". Sport-OnTheBox.com. Sport on the Box. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Trans World Sport to return to UK TV Channel 4 in the new year". IMG.com. IMG Media. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Happy 20th birthday, Trans World sport". SportsJournalists.co.uk. Sports Journalists' Association. 26 June 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Financial genius who revolutionised sport". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Obituary: Mark McCormack". The Daily Telegraph. 17 May 2003. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  10. ^ Michael Payne (23 March 2012). Olympic turnaround: How the Olympic games stepped back from the brink of ... Infinite Ideas. ISBN 978-1-908474-37-7. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  11. ^ Michael Carlson (17 May 2003). "Obituary: Mark McCormack | sport". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  12. ^ "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.
  13. ^ "BBC Sport | Obituary: Mark McCormack". BBC News. 16 May 2003. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "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.