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Master of Ceremonies: Bob Costas |
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 With the advent of NBC's Football Night In America, 19-time Emmy Award winner Bob Costas added another chapter to his long and diverse career in sports television. Costas hosts the primetime Sunday Night broadcast of top NFL games, including playoff games each season and two Super Bowls over six years. Bob has been with NBC Sports since 1979 and has also hosted HBO Sports and Entertainment programs since 2001. He has covered every major sport, but is perhaps most identified with the Olympics and baseball.
Costas anchored NBC's primetime coverage of the last five Summer Olympics- Beijing (2008), Athens, Greece (2004), Sydney, Australia (2000), Atlanta (1996), and Barcelona (1992). He also hosted The Winter Games in Torino, Italy (2006), and Salt Lake City (2002). Bob's first Olympic experience came in Seoul, Korea in 1988, where he served as the late-night host. He is scheduled to host NBC's coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the 2012 London Summer Games.
Costas’ extraordinary career includes teaming with Tony Kubek to host NBC's Baseball Game of the Week telecasts; hosting the network’s NFL Live Pre-Game Show for nine years (1984-1992); covering six League Championship Series and five World Series for NBC Sports; hosting four Super Bowls; providing play-by-play for the NBA on NBC; and serving as a contributing interviewer and essayist on NBC’s NFL Pre-Game Show, the program he previously hosted for nine years. In 2001, HBO launched the Emmy Award-winning show On The Record With Bob Costas.
His book, Fair Ball, A Fan's Case For Baseball, remained on The New York Times bestseller list for several weeks.
The recipient of the National Sportscaster Of The Year award an unprecedented eight times, Costas’ diverse career also includes serving as a substitute host for Bryant Gumbel on NBC's Today Show and hosting his own late night program, Later...With Bob Costas. A native of Queens, New York, Costas began his professional career at WSYR-TV and Radio in 1973 while studying Communications at Syracuse University.
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Master of Ceremonies: Bob Costas 