Costas has been one of the most valuable assets at NBC since he joined the network in 1980. He has covered Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, and college basketball. Costas has hosted just about every major sporting event, including numerous World Series, Super Bowls, NBA Championships and most notably, the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, where he served as the network’s prime-time host and deftly anchored more than half of NBC’s 161 hours of coverage...>>> Book for Bob Costas Your Event

From August 1988 through January 1994 he hosted his own late-night interview television program on NBC, “Later with Bob Costas,” which won an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series. In 1994, Costas expanded his broadcasting duties at NBC to include NBC News. He currently contributes segments to a variety of News programs, including the “Bob Costas Interview” on “Dateline NBC” and “Today.” Costas was also a frequent contributor to the news magazine “Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric.”  

Costas also served as the prime-time anchor of the network’s coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. While attending Syracuse University, Costas began his broadcasting career in 1974 at WSYR-TV and Radio, the student stations. He later joined KMOX Radio in St. Louis, working as a play-by-play voice of the ABA Spirits of St. Louis. He then went on to handle regional NFL and NBA assignments for CBS Sports, while acting as the radio voice of University of Missouri basketball from 1976 to 1981. Costas, a native New Yorker, now lives in St. Louis with his wife Randy, their son, Keith, and daughter, Taylor.

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