I started my sports broadcasting career at the Seoul Summer Olympics  for NBC Sports. I had been living and traveling in Asia, and was hired locally as a runner.

I can trace all my sports broadcasting jobs back to the contacts I made at that gig! The most valuable was meeting NBC Sports Producer John Gilmartin.

After working several Olympics with John, he was kind enough to recommend me to CBS for the Nagano Winter Games. I was hired away from NBC Sports to work at the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan on Olympic Features. I edited dozens like this one leading up to the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano. 

Then I traveled to Nagano, Japan as Supervising Editor to shake out the edit rooms on-site and train incoming editors. Six weeks in Japan! Very busy, but managed to sneak some skiing in as well.

Producer Sydney Trattner arrived in Japan early to finish up her features.  So we had plenty of resources available that would soon get tied up on other jobs. That allowed us to add some fun graphics to realize her “fairy tale” theme for this feature about one of the best downhill skiers of all time, Katja Seizinger.

While in Nagano, CBS Sports won their bid to regain broadcast rights for the NFL.  When I got back to New York, my old Olympic edit room was re-purposed for the NFL Today and I wound up freelancing for both CBS Sports and NBC Sports at the same time for many years….