Robert Quinlan " Bob " Costas ( born March 22, 1952 ) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.

He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

Ditka worked for both the NFL on NBC and CBS's The NFL Today, and he currently works on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and provided Friday night analysis on the Bears on CBS 2 Chicago, the CBS Chicago affiliate, called " 2 on Football " with former CBS 2 Sports Director Mark Malone.

In May 2006 Jamiroquai performed during the Laureus Sports Awards in Barcelona ; the event was later televised by NBC in June.

Kenny also announces part-time for the NBC Sports Network, mostly during Stanley Cup playoff games not involving the Rangers.

Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.

The coin toss ceremony featured a future infamous celebrity, former Bills running back O. J. Simpson, who was working for NBC Sports at the time.

He has also composed music for television ; channels such as the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and NBC Sports include his music.

The more well known include World Athletics Championships multiple gold medal-winning sprinter Tyson Gay ; former Tates Creek High School and Louisville Cardinals kicker David Akers, who is the all-time scoring leader for the Philadelphia Eagles ; former Louisville Cardinals football player and Cleveland Browns cornerback Frank Minnifield ; Miami Marlins outfielder Austin Kearns ; former Kentucky and Pittsburgh Steelers center Dermontti Dawson ; and NBC Sports announcer Tom Hammond.

The show was taped in Studio 8G at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, which was later used for The Phil Donahue Show and The Rosie O ' Donnell Show and now houses NBC Sports.

* NBC Sports 2001 – 2005, 2011-2015

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

Originally the series took place over a three-hour span, with KNBC sports anchor and NBC Sports contributor Fred Roggin and actress Heidi Bohay hosting the interstitial segments.

* NBC Sports Network

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* Dan Patrick, Mason High School class of 1974 ( formerly Dan Pugh ); national radio host, NBC Sports host, Sports Illustrated columnist, and former ESPN anchor

Also, on CBS Sports ' final NBA telecast to date ( before the contract moved to NBC ) at the conclusion of Game 5 of the 1990 Finals, they used Gaye's 1983 All-Star Game performance over the closing credits.

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. ( July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002 ) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s and ' 90s.

Former NBC Sports and CBS Early Show anchor Hannah Storm has joined ESPN to host the 9 a. m. to noon block.

In addition, there are many anecdotal reports of various TV networks ( such as CBS Sports and NBC Sports ) that will not release highlights of certain sporting events to ESPN unless its name is labeled across the screen for the entire length of the highlight ( Courtesy NBC Sports, etc .).

Notable members of the Astor family attended Columbia, while some recent business graduates include investor Warren Buffett, former CEO of PBS and NBC Larry Grossman, and chairman of Wal-Mart S. Robson Walton.

Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

* Julian Goodman, former CEO and chairman of the board of NBC

Notables attending included: New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey ; violinist Fritz Kreisler ; James A. Farley ; Metropolitan Opera manager Rudolph Bing ; NBC chairman David Sarnoff ; CBS chairman William S. Paley ; Broadway composer Richard Rodgers ; and Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer.

He left NBC in 1991, moving to Paramount Pictures to become its chairman.

Fox hosted Way Out Games ( 1976 – 1977 ), a Saturday-morning series for CBS, then later spent a year ( 1977 – 1978 ) running children's programming for NBC and eventually became a chairman of the board for Population Communications International, a nonprofit dedicated to " technical assistance, research and training consultation to governments, NGOs and foundations on a wide range of social marketing and communications initiatives ", for which he is still an honorary chairman.

Shortly thereafter, Tinker left MTM to become chairman of NBC, then the number three network, and subsequently a pilot was ordered.

* Bob Wright, American television businessman and president, CEO, and chairman of NBC

He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts.

Salomon left the Navy in 1948 and eventually discussed his idea of a documentary series with one of his Harvard classmates, Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television and the son of David Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA ( then the owner of NBC ).

* Bob Wright ( born 1943 ), United States television businessman and former president, CEO, and chairman of NBC

In May 2004, NBC's parent company, General Electric, acquired Vivendi Universal Entertainment to create NBC Universal ; Wright, who orchestrated the deal, was named chairman and CEO of the new company.

Noble tried valiantly to build ABC into an innovative and competitive broadcaster, but was hampered by financial problems and the pressure of competing with long-established NBC and CBS, and by 1951 was forced to enter negotiations to merge the network with United Paramount Theaters, headed by Leonard Goldenson ; Goldenson would become chairman of the ABC network, while Noble remained on the ABC board of directors for the remainder of his life.

Flagstad did get her way, though ; she went over Johnson's head and discussed the matter with the Met's board of directors, particularly David Sarnoff, RCA and NBC founder and chairman.

Ebersol was chairman of NBC Sports until May 2011.

NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin told ABC News he expected Daly to stay with the network " in some fashion ", but did not elaborate.

Following this broadcast, several executives of the NBC network and its corporate chairman allegedly received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters.

However, NBC Universal TV Entertainment chairman Jeff Gaspin stated that while those conversations have yet to take place, he stated that they " wish Conan the best.

The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a " personal favorite " of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff as well as comedian Bill Maher.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

The NBC telecast of the game, with play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg and color commentators Merlin Olsen and Bob Griese ( who was not in the booth with Enberg and Olsen ), garnered the third highest Nielsen rating of any Super Bowl to date, a 48. 3 but it ended up being the first Super Bowl to garner over 90 million viewers the highest to date up to that point.

The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with Dick Enberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, John Brodie, and Len Dawson ( who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen ).

The game was televised in the United States by NBC, with Dick Enberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentator Merlin Olsen in the broadcast booth.

The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with Dick Enberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentator Bob Trumpy in the broadcast booth.

The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg and color commentator Bob Trumpy.

The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC, with play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg and color commentators Phil Simms and Paul Maguire.

) There have been two television appearances since then ; the 1984 tournament semi-finals and finals aired on NBC, hosted by Pat Sajak ( of Wheel of Fortune fame ), and the entire 1987 tournament on Disney Channel, hosted by Dick Cavett.

* Law & Order ( franchise ) ( 1990 – present ), a number of related police and legal dramas created by Dick Wolf for NBC

Almost all of The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and the first ten years hosted by his successor Johnny Carson were taped over by the network, which is why Carson's late 1960s shows looked muddy compared to his competitor Dick Cavett on ABC ; NBC was using the Tonight Show tapes repeatedly.

He hosted and occasionally starred in his Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater on CBS from 1956 – 1961, and his final anthology series, The Dick Powell Show on NBC from 1961 through 1963: after his death, the series continued through the end of its second season ( as The Dick Powell Theater ), with guest hosts.

Much of the material from the early episodes was used on Dick Clark's " Bloopers " specials which aired on NBC a few years later.

McMahon and Dick Clark hosted the television series ( and later special broadcasts of ) TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes on NBC from 1982 – 98, when Clark decided to move the production of the series to ABC.

For instance, NBC television executive Dick Ebersol said after the failed 2016 bid, " This was the IOC membership saying to the USOC there will be no more domestic Olympics until you join the Olympic movement ".

During the 1982-83 season, TV producer Dick Clark revived the bloopers concept in America for a series of specials on NBC called TV's Censored Bloopers.

One year later, he moved to NBC ( after being hired by Dick Ebersol to direct comedy programming ).

On Friday, August 29, 1997, Dateline NBC did an extended tribute to Tartikoff featuring many of his proteges including Warren Littlefield, Dick Ebersol, Bill Cosby, Michael J.

In addition to these individual games, TVS was a pioneer in bringing college basketball to a national scope-first by their own efforts in the early 1970s, primarily with Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( sometimes Enberg and Hundley would call a Pac-8 game on a Friday night, fly to the midwest for the TVS game of the week on Saturday afternoon, and then head back to the west coast to call a Pac-8 game on Saturday night ), then in 1976, teaming with NBC Sports in a cooperative effort to regionalize NBC's coverage ( NBC / local talent, TVS production crews ).

In 1995, Maguire and then-ESPN reporter Phil Simms joined Dick Enberg as the # 1 broadcast team for NBC, and remained paired until the end of the 1997 season when NBC lost the rights to the NFL.

While the broadcast three days after his death had a memorial tribute from NBC news anchor Chet Huntley with film and TV star Dick Van Dyke, the intros Walt already filmed before his death continued to air for the rest of the season.

Other TV series included NBC ’ s sitcom Teachers, where he was part of an ensemble cast, playing the part of school teacher Dick Green for the full season ; and The Replacements, where he appeared in two episodes as the Mayor.