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Ross Greenburg (born c. 1955) was president of HBO 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.
- Die-Hard Sports Fan — with A Sentimental Streak
- Growing Up at ABC Sports
- Catching on at A Fledgling HBO
- The Golden Age of HBO Sports Documentaries
- Getting ‘Real’ with Sports Journalism
- Birthing A Genre of Sports Reality TV
- Sports Stories Go Hollywood
- Embarking on A New Journey
- Far from Finished
Greenburg grew up in Scarsdale, NY, constantly playing sports and watching as many games on television as he could. He attended Jets games with his father (at 13, Greenburg was on hand for Joe Namath’s legendary performance in Super Bowl III) and played football through high school. Meanwhile, his mother instilled a unique sense of humanity in him....
He attended Brown University but never strayed far from sports production, working as an assistant writer for the sports news director at WPRI-TV Providence. Following his junior year, he and Kyle spent the summer traversing the Northeast working as PAs on a variety of ABC Sports productions — including Monday Night Baseball, preseason Monday Night...
Greenburg had known of HBO, which carried Knicks and Rangers games from Madison Square Garden beginning in the early ’70s, but it was still a fledgling premium cable network in a world where cable was far from ubiquitous. Nonetheless, Greenburg saw an opportunity to break into sports television and submitted his résumé. “At that time,” he says, “th...
In 1985, Greenburg became VP/executive producer and, five years later, was elevated to SVP/EP. During this period, he began to imprint his own vision on HBO Sports, a vision that greatly resembled another Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer. “Years later,” he says, “I told Roone Arledge, ‘All I did was take your [ABC Sports] philosophy and change the...
In the mid ’90s, Greenburg and his team began toying with the idea of a “hard news” program dedicated to sports. The concept was simple: a one-hour sports magazine show modeled loosely on CBS News’ 60 Minutes. He assembled a murder’s row of talent that could take sports broadcast journalism to the next echelon, and thus Real Sports With Bryant Gumb...
In 2000, Greenburg was named president of HBO Sports, and one of his first major programming moves proved to be one of the most important in the network’s history. With HBO’s documentary factory churning out gold, he set his sights on bringing that same elite storytelling to the burgeoning genre of reality TV. “We were looking to get into reality b...
While creating a sports-documentary dynasty, lifting sports journalism to new heights, and booking blockbuster fights, Greenburg somehow found time to serve as executive producer on multiple feature films at HBO — most notably 61*, which chronicled Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle’s race to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home-run record. “I had attem...
By 2010, HBO Sports was hitting its stride in original programming, but Greenburg says the never-ending grind of negotiating with boxing promoters for the next big fight was starting to wear on him. “Going to the front lines with some very tough people on a daily basis began to take up more and more of my time and took me away from some of the othe...
Today, Greenburg operates RGP out of his office in Rye, NY, and resides in Greenwich, CT, with his wife of 38 years, Michele, whom he calls “my rock and the person who has most shaped who I am today. She has been with me every step of the way and has always given me reality checks. She hasn’t just provided support; she also has a great journalistic...
Jul 28, 2022 · After 33 years of developing and producing documentaries, reality programming, magazine shows, and talk shows, I wanted to form a production company that would stand for the same quality of programming that branded HBO Sports.
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Sep 10, 2021 · Iconic and multi-Emmy Award-winning Director and Producer Ross Greenburg, who for many years has run his own production company in Rye, New York was asked to put his magical touch on an emotional and powerful project from Turner Sports.
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Ross Greenburg, who as president of HBO Sports was regarded as the most powerful person in the boxing business, resigned from the network under pressure Sunday despite having several...
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Oct 23, 2023 · Greenburg has now been at the helm of Ross Greenburg Productions for over a dozen years and remains a leading storyteller. He executive produced this year’s “Bill Russell: Legend” for Netflix and last year directed “Hidden Dynasty: The Story of Carolina Women’s Soccer” for ESPN and the ACC Network.
Ross Greenburg is known for 61* (2001), Miracle (2004) and Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team (2007).
