Editing Keith Jackson (section)

====Early assignments====
Jackson began his career as a broadcaster in 1952, when he called a game between [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] and [[Washington State Cougars football|Washington State]] on the Tidewater Associated Oil Co. radio network. He then worked for [[KNWN (AM)|KOMO radio]] in [[Seattle]], and later for [[KOMO-TV]] from 1954 to 1964 as co-anchor for their first news team (first co-anchor news team on the West Coast) covering [[Seafair]] [[H1 Unlimited|hydroplane races]], [[Minor League Baseball|minor league]] [[Seattle Rainiers]] baseball games, and [[Washington Huskies football|University of Washington]] [[College football|football]] games. In 1958, Jackson became the first American sports announcer to broadcast an event from the [[Soviet Union]], a [[Rowing (sport)|crew]] race between the [[Washington Huskies#Rowing|Washington Huskies]] and a Soviet team.<ref name=TDC110897>Andrew Krebs, [http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1997/11/11-08-97cm/11-08-97m03-016.asp Wide world of Jackson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226130408/http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1997/11/11-08-97cm/11-08-97m03-016.asp |date=December 26, 2007 }}, ''The Daily Collegian'', November 8, 1997.</ref> Despite heavy suspicion and numerous hurdles by the Soviet authorities, Jackson and his cohorts were able to cover the race: the first ever American sports victory on Russian soil.<ref name=KOMO>[http://www.komotv.com/news/local/4529451.html Howard Ramaley, 1922-2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927020541/http://www.komotv.com/news/local/4529451.html |date=September 27, 2007 }}, KOMO-TV, October 31, 2007.</ref>

Jackson became a radio news correspondent for [[ABC News Radio]] and sports director of ABC Radio West in 1964 before joining ABC Sports in 1966.<ref name="TSN082195" /> He helped [[Walter Cronkite]] cover the [[1964 Republican National Convention]] in [[San Francisco]].<ref name="TDC110897"/>