{"id":4670,"date":"2012-09-28T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2012-09-28T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:44:38","slug":"former-sportscaster-journalist-chris-economaki-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"Former Sportscaster, Journalist,  Chris Economaki Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Economaki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4671\" title=\"Economaki\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Economaki-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>DOVER, Del. (AP Sept 28,2012) &#8211; Chris Economaki, a journalist regarded as the authoritative voice in motorsports for decades, died Friday. He was<br \/>\n91.<\/p>\n<p>National Speed Sport News, where Economaki worked as an editor<br \/>\nfor more than 60 years, announced his death Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It did not release a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Economaki was known as the &#8220;Dean of American Motorsports Journalism,&#8221; and worked in TV for more than 40 years with stints at ABC, CBS and ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of ABC&#8217;s first telecast from Daytona International Speedway in 1961.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His love of motorsports blossomed as a child and he sold copies<br \/>\nof National Speed Sport News as a teenager.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR chairman Brian France said Economaki played a &#8220;huge role<br \/>\nin growing NASCAR&#8217;s popularity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>France said Economaki was considered by many, &#8220;the greatest motorsports journalist of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOVER, Del. (AP Sept 28,2012) &#8211; Chris Economaki, a journalist regarded as the authoritative voice in motorsports for decades, died Friday. He was 91. National Speed Sport News, where Economaki worked as an editor for more than 60 years, announced his death Friday. It did not release a cause of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}