Gray Television’s Raycom Sports Acquires Moskovitz Sports TV & Radio Archives, ‘Tim McCarver Show,’ ‘Pat Summeralls’ Sports In America’

JOY-CPW Inc. and Jim Moskovitz said today that Raycom Sports, a wholly owned division of Gray Television, has purchased the Jim Moskovitz Sports Archives of unedited and previously broadcast interviews on U.S. and Canadian radio and television.

The archives, which comprise broadcast TV, premium cable and radio programming, include Instant Replay with Pat Summerall (radio), Pat Summerall’s Sports in America (radio), Instant Replay with Ron MacLean (Canadian radio), The Tim McCarver Show (TV), Grand Slam! (TV), hosted by Dick Schaap and starring 37 of baseball’s all-time greats, and 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing, hosted by the Fight Doctor, Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali’s longtime ringside physician, among other premium properties.

Raycom Sports said it plans to develop new programming for video and audio platforms from the archives, with assistance from Jim Moskovitz’s JOY-CPW.  The archives feature interviews with some of the most famous athletes and sports personalities of the past half century.

Raycom Sports is a producer of sports television programs, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., and owned and operated by Gray Television.

JOY-CPW is the producer of Game Time With Boomer Esiason, a broadcast TV series, hosted by the former NFL MVP and national sportscaster who interviews top sports personalities in original weekly half-hour episodes. The program airs on 333 stations in all 210 markets and is seen by 1,800,000 homes.

“Our archives tell the human interest story of sports from the past nearly 70 years through interviews with the men and women who made it happen,” says Jim Moskovitz, creator, writer, executive producer and president of JOY-CPW.  “With consumer appetite for sports programming continuing to skyrocket, the archives provide an incredible wealth of interviews with a broad array of icons in sports. We are looking forward to working with Raycom Sports to bring new and exciting content to sports fans and to the advertisers that support them.”

“The story of sports in the past half century is told by the deep and rich interviews that are contained in these archives,” Moskovitz added.  “They will serve as a unique foundation from which Raycom Sports can develop a variety of video and audio programming that will help bring that story to fans across many platforms.”