HBO’s Greenburg Lands on His Feet, Now at NBC Sports

By Mitch Abramson
 
Ross Greenburg, the former head of HBO Sports, has resurfaced as a producer of sports documentaries for NBC Sports, according to the Associated Press. Greenburg had grown weary of dealing with boxing promoters and managers and left the network in July. He founded Ross Greenburg Productions earlier this year following a career at HBO that spanned 33 years and 51 Emmy Awards. He will now work for the NBC Sports Group, producing documentaries for the new NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel, the NHL, and NBC.

As part of his duties, Greenburg will produce a monthly interview show for Bob Costas, called “Costas Tonight” that will debut on Thursday nights in the spring of 2012 on the NBC Sports Network. He will also partner with the NHL to produce original content for the NBC Network.

“I am thrilled to be a part of the NBC Sports Group family and to develop compelling and entertaining programming with this great team of programmers and production personnel led by my friend and former colleague Mark Lazarus,” Greenburg said in a statement. “I am also very excited to be reunited with Bob Costas, and to showcase his extraordinary skills as a broadcaster and journalist.”

His first documentary for the NBC Sports Group, “Cold War on Ice: Summit Series ’72,” will air on Jan. 2, the same day the cable channel Versus, will change its name to the NBC Sports Network, according to the AP. The documentary tells the story of the hockey series that took place in 1972 between a team of Canadian NHL all-stars and the Soviet Union national team during the apex of the Cold War.

Mitch Abramson covers boxing for the New York Daily News and BoxingScene.com.