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The best live-game producers, people like NBC’s Fred Gaudelli and Fox’s Richard Zyontz, have a sense of timing and patience that can turn a great athletic moment into a historic one. The sign of a good studio producer, like ESPN’s Jim Gaiero and Showtime’s Pete Radovich, is the ability to create enough chemistry among the on-air talent that viewers want to tune in.
Following is a list of producers who you should keep an eye on, a combination of established veterans like Fox’s Bardia Shah-Rais and up-and-comers like NFL Network’s Shaneika Dabney-Henderson, who are doing some of the best work capturing all of the excitement and emotion on sports TV today.
Live Events
Jim Rikhoff, CBS Sports
Mark Wolff, CBS Sports
Ken Miller, Altitude Sports
Doug Johnson, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh
Fred Gaudelli, NBC Sports Group
Rebecca Chatman, NBC Sports Group
Tommy Roy, NBC Sports Group
Bill Bell, NBC Sports Washington
Richard Zyontz, Fox Sports
Chuck McDonald, Fox Sports
Larry Mago, Fox Sports
Troy Benjamin, YES Network
Bill Bonnell, ESPN
Tim Corrigan, ESPN
Benjamin Winter, Turner Sports
Studio
Jim Gaiero, ESPN
David Rose, ESPN
Matthew Kelliher, ESPN
Shaneika Dabney-Henderson, NFL Network
Joe Perskie, HBO
Dave Patterson, MLB Network
Pierre Moossa, NBC Sports Group
Rob Hyland, NBC Sports Group
Debra Gelman, CBS Sports
Amy Salmanson and Julie Keryc, CBS Sports Network
Pete Radovich, Showtime
Jeremy Levin, Turner Sports
Lindsey Mandia, Fox Sports
Bill Richards, Fox Sports
Bardia Shah-Rais, Fox Sports
