Ross Greenburg (born c. 1955) was president of
HBO
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Sports from 2000 to 2011.
He was an executive producer for HBO Sports in 1985. During his tenure he won 51 Sports Emmys and 8 Peabody Awards. He succeeded Seth Abraham as president.
HBO Sports is famous for its series ''Sports of the 20th Century'' a series of sports documentaries produced by Greenburg, as well as the leading sports magazine show ''
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
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Overview
Format
Each episode consists of fou ...
'', a football studio show led by
Bob Costas
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,
Dan Marino
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,
Cris Carter
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, and
Cris Collinsworth
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titled ''
Inside the NFL
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'' and ''
HBO World Championship Boxing
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''. In 1990, he won the
Sam Taub Award The Sam Taub Award is a yearly award presented by the Boxing Writers Association of America for Excellence in Broadcasting Journalism. The award is named after Sam Taub, a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering box ...
for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism.
International Boxing Hall of Fame / BWAA Awards
He graduated from Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1977.
References
External links
HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg Exiting Network After 33 Years
Greenburg out as president of HBO Sports
Living people
American television producers
American television executives
Brown University alumni
1955 births
Scarsdale High School alumni
HBO Sports
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