Bob Costas

Nice Try | Talking the Talk | Nothing is Fun - Posted November 15, 2011
PRNewser: Bob Costas got rave reviews for his interview with Jerry Sandusky, a man who showered with kids but is not a pedophile. According to Sa... [FishbowlNY]

Bob Costas Explains How He Got the Jerry Sandusky Interview - Posted November 15, 2011
Just a couple hours before "Rock Center" went on the air last night, word got out that NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas got an interview with Jerry Sandusky. How that interview came to be is a story in itself. This morning on "Morning Joe" Costas explained to Willi... [TVNewser]

Bob Costas Praised for Sandusky Interview - Posted November 15, 2011
Sports broadcaster Bob Costas is drawing cheers this morning following last night's Rock Center interview with former Penn State assis... [PRNewser]

Ratings: ABC Dominates With Giffords Interview, Sandusky Leads 'Rock Center' To Ratings High - Posted November 15, 2011
ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer's interview with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband former astronaut Mark Kelly was easily ... [TVNewser]

At 10 PM, Exclusive Interviews On Three Channels - Posted November 14, 2011
Tonight at 10 PM news viewers have a veritable glut of exclusive interviews to choose from. NBC just announced that on "Rock Center," Bob Costas has the first interview (via phone) with former Penn State coach Jerry... [TVNewser]

Bonds to Confront Bonds-hating Fan on New Show - Posted August 19, 2011
Major League Baseball all-time home run king Barry Bonds* will ... [SportsNewser]

Al Michaels and Bob Costas Team Up Friday Night Mets/Giants Game on MLB Network, SNY - Posted July 6, 2011
For the first time, sportscasting giants Bob Costas and Al Michaels team up to call a baseball game. Friday night, NBC Sports colleagues Costa... [FishbowlLA]

Al Michaels and Bob Costas Team Up Friday Night Mets/Giants Game on MLB Network, SNY - Posted July 6, 2011
For the first time, sportscasting giants Bob Costas and Al Michaels team up to call a baseball game. Friday night, NBC Sports colleagues Costa... [FishbowlNY]

Grantland Profiles Long Deceased Sports Paper The National - Posted June 10, 2011
It's been an up an down week for Bill Simmons' new online startup Grantland. The Atlantic proclai... [FishbowlLA]

Bob Costas Is Ready For The 137th Kentucky Derby - Posted May 6, 2011
When you have 22 Sports Emmys, you can get away with ridiculous photos like this. [H/T Jimmy Traina, Photo via Maria Menounos]... [SportsNewser]

HBO, NBC Big Winners At 32nd Annual Sports Emmy Awards - Posted May 3, 2011
HBO and NBC were the big winners Monday night in New York at the 32nd annual Sports Emmy Awards with seven wins each. Three of seven HBO's awards were for Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the New York Jets. The football series won for Outstanding Post Production Audio/Sound, Outstanding Camera Work, and... [SportsNewser]

ESPN Leads Networks With 36 Sports Emmy Nominations - Posted March 22, 2011
With 36 nominations, ESPN leads all networks for the upcoming Sports Emmy Awards, to be held May 2 at Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City. In a distant second and third were HBO and NBC with 22 and 20 nominations, respectively. The most honored event was NB... [SportsNewser]

MLB Network Revives Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams for Interstitial Ad 'All In One Place' - Posted February 22, 2011
MLB Network is rolling out an unusual interstitial branding campaign, titled "All In One Place." The ad features a slew of all-time great MLB players, from Jackie Robinson to Babe Ruth, Ted Williams to Sandy Koufax, and even modern players like Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr--in their old team uniforms. The players... [SportsNewser]

NBC Sports Crew Discusses 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic - Posted December 21, 2010
With the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic less than two weeks away, announcers ... [SportsNewser]

Bob Costas to Narrate MLB Network's 'The Pitching Paradigm' - Posted September 16, 2010
MLB Network's Bob Costas has been tapped to narrate a documentary for the channel about pitching,"MLB Network Behind the Seams: The Pitching Paradigm." The hour-long doc, which is from MLB Productions,will air Friday, September 18 at 7 PM . Among t... [SportsNewser]

Ann Curry, 'Showing Some Love' to Bob Costas - Posted September 15, 2010
It all started when Ann Curry finished reading a news story this morning on Today... and then attempted to top it off with a joke. The story concerned an Italian manufacturer's new "... [TVNewser]

Mike Florio, Pro Footbal Talk Going to Sunday Nights - Posted September 2, 2010
When NBC Sports partnered with football blog Pro Football Talk and its founder Mike Florio last year, the goal was to boost the company's web presence. Now it seems, it is going both ways. Florio ... [SportsNewser]

Larry King's Next Gig: 'Bob Costas West' - Posted July 3, 2010
Earlier this week outgoing CNN host Larry King was interviewed by MLB Network. Anchor Greg Amsinger introduced King as "One of the biggest free agents in the world right now," and... [TVNewser]

NBC's Capus Tells Staff No More Luger Death Video - Posted February 14, 2010
NBC News president Steve Capus has ordered that the video of the crash of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili no longer be shown on NBC News and MSNBC programs, without his permission. It's a policy also apparently adopted by NBC Sports as well. Last night, before introduc... [TVNewser]

News, Not Sports, is Headline At the Start of Opening Ceremony Coverage on NBC - Posted February 12, 2010
NBC's coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Winter games did not begin the way so many have in the past -- with celebration and hope. Instead Bob Costas and Matt Lauer opened NBC's coverage with the som... [TVNewser]

Sports PR Execs Debate Effectiveness of Mark McGwire's Quick Confessional Tour - Posted January 19, 2010
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Ari Fleischer Handling Mark McGwire Steroid Admission - Posted January 12, 2010
Former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer is in the sports PR business, in a big way. First came news he was handling the NCAA College Football Bow... [PRNewser]

Brian Williams to Have Canadian Competiton During Olympics... From Brian Williams - Posted December 21, 2009
When NBC's Brian Williams heads to Vancouver in February to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics for "Nightly News", he'll have some competition from the Bob Costas of Canada -- whose name happens to b... [TVNewser]

"Technical Difficulties" During Lauer's Wide-Ranging Interview with Pres. Obama - Posted February 1, 2009
In one of the most heavily promoted interviews of the year, (yes, even more than Blago) Matt Lauer's 12 minute sit-down with Pres. Obama in the White House Map Room experienced the dreaded "technical difficulties." Seven minutes into the interview the President's audi... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 10.01.08 - Posted October 1, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the... [FishbowlDC]

You Say Beijing, I Say Beijing: Who's Right, Williams or Costas? - Posted August 16, 2008
So, we come to find out, and if you've been listening closely you may have heard it, that the pronunciation of the host city of the XXIX Olympiad hasn't been consistent on NBC. Nightly News anchor ... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 08.11.08 - Posted August 11, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the... [FishbowlDC]

Matt Lauer to Co-Host Beijing Opening Ceremony - Posted August 1, 2008
The NYTimes' Richard Sandomir reports Matt Lauer is being tapped to co-anchor the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics alongside ... [TVNewser]

Bob Costas: L.A. Sucks - Posted July 17, 2007
FishbowlLA correspondent Dan Cox reports from the Television Critics Association tour: The second Television Critics Association session that followed NBC Entertainment president Ben Silverman's coming out party was an assembly of ex-NFL players and broadcasters around NBC's Sunday Night Football (formerly known as Monday Night ... [FishbowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Teddy, Liz & The Gang - Posted February 21, 2007
The dining room at Michael's was buzzing today with moguls and media mavens who did more than the usual amount of table-hopping between bites — standing-room only in the bustling lounge as the regulars and requisite movers and shakers were out in force. (Liz! Lesley! T... [FishbowlNY]