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2024: At his final Masters tournament as CBS Sports’ chief (an event his father, Jim McKay, called for CBS from 1957-60), McManus renews the event’s media rights agreement the same way he had done for the past 27 years — with a handshake.

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Sean McManus (television executive)

American television executive

This article is about the CBS television executive. For other people of this name, see Sean McManus (disambiguation).

Sean James McManus (born February 16, 1955) is the former chairman of CBS Sports and was the president of both CBS Sports and CBS News from 2005 to 2011.

Education and early career

McManus graduated from Fairfield College Preparatory School, a private Jesuit high school in Fairfield, Connecticut, and Duke University.

In 1977, McManus began working as a production assistant and associate producer at ABC Sports.^[1] In 1979, he moved to NBC Sports and in 1982, aged 27, he became its vice-president of program development.^[1] Here he first became involved in rights negotiations, for sports such as the Olympic Games, football, tennis, basketball, horse racing and auto racing.^[1]

In 1987, he became a senior vice president of American TV sales and programming for Trans World International, the television division of sports marketing firm International Manage

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Sean McManus

If a person is the company he keeps, it’s easy to understand why CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus is being inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. His mother, Margaret, and father, legendary broadcaster Jim McKay, instilled in him core values and ethics that have served him well personally and professionally. And then there were his professional mentors: from the start of his career as a production assistant at ABC Sports, a veritable who’s who of the greatest sports, news, and TV professionals of the past 50 years.

McManus’s journey into sports TV began when he was a youngster, spending summers traveling with his father and experiencing not only the world’s greatest sports events but also those that would make ABC’s Wide World of Sports such fascinating viewing week after week.

“I traveled a lot with my father to sporting events in the summer at a time when the men and women at ABC Sports were inventing sports TV with Wide World of Sports. And, by the time was 11 years old, I knew that was what I wanted to do for a living.”

By the time he was 15,