Bob Lanning, Senior Coordinating Producer, Big Ten Network
Senior Coordinating Producer Bob Lanning oversees live event production and university supplied programming for the Big Ten Network based in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Lanning previously served as Executive Producer for Directors Group, Inc., a Sports and Entertainment production company based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Directors Group, Inc. annually produced content for clients that included ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, FOX, FOX Sports Net, NFL Films and Outdoor Life Network.
From 1999 through 2008, Mr. Lanning produced the NBC broadcast of the Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament for the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation.
In addition, Mr. Lanning has directed the Hi-Definition coverage of The Masters Golf Championship and the U.S. Open Tennis Championship for CBS Sports. Mr. Lanning has been recognized as one of the most accomplished and industry acclaimed directors of Hi-Definition television. He was awarded a special Emmy in 2000 for his direction of the 1999 AFC Championship football game in HD for CBS. Mr. Lanning is also a two-time winner in 2000 and 2001 of the International Electronic Cinema’s prestigious Astrolabium award recognizing outstanding achievement in HD programming.
Mr. Lanning’s thirty-five years of experience in sports television includes eleven Winter and Summer Olympic assignments beginning in 1972 for ABC Sports. He has been involved in five other Summer Olympics (1976 and 1984 with ABC; 1988 and 1992 with NBC; and 1996 with Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting, the host broadcasting organization for the Centennial Olympic Games). In addition, Mr. Lanning was involved with five Winter Olympic broadcasts (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 – all with ABC and 1998 with Turner Sports).
During his extensive television career, Mr. Lanning has won six Emmy awards for outstanding individual achievement (1976 Summer Olympics, 1979 Wide World of Sports, 1982 Indianapolis 500, and the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics) and was nominated in 1984 for the Directors Guild of America Sports award for Gymnastics coverage of the Los Angeles Summer Games.
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