Tom McShane, vice president, remote operations at CBS College Sports Network, is a veteran of broadcast, national cable, and regional sports networks.
Tom began his television career at NBC. Over the course of 20 years there, he worked in various roles including: unit manager, manager of manpower planning for NBC Olympics, and production manager for NBC News and NBC Sports. Tom worked both on and at numerous projects including Olympic Games, Major League Baseball (season, playoffs, All-Star Games, and World Series), National Football League (season, playoffs, Championship Games, and Super Bowls), National Basketball Association (NBA and WNBA season, playoffs, All-Star Games, and Finals), The Gravity Games, Breeder’s Cup (horse racing), gymnastics, figure skating, studio shows, and the Democratic and Republican National Political Conventions. Other work included technical and production support for many news and entertainment studio shows: Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, The Today Show, Local News 4, Dateline, and NBC Nightly News, among others.
Tom moved from NBC to take on the position of director, facilities operations at Madison Square Garden Networks (MSG Network and at that time Fox Sports NY). There, he was responsible for the technical and facilities planning of remote broadcasts for all home and away games of nine professional sports teams: (MLB) Yankees, Mets, (NBA) Knicks, Nets, (NHL) Rangers, Islanders, Devils, (WNBA) Liberty, and (MLS) Metro Stars, plus arena football, college basketball, and Golden Gloves Boxing. Tom supervised in-house operations for studio shows, master control, edit rooms, staff scheduling and administration. He coordinated news live shots, press conferences, and special events for other networks and stations broadcasting at the arena (including “The Concert for New York City”).
At ESPN, Tom worked as senior manager and associate director in the Remote / Event Operations department. He was responsible for the operations teams for Major League Baseball (Sunday Night, Monday Night, and Wednesday Night Baseball, MLB All Star Weekend / Home Run Derby, Division Series), and The Little League World Series (Regional Championships, U.S., and International Championships). Tom also managed the operations teams for college basketball, studio remotes, boxing, “New Year No Limits,” and international events including baseball. He worked on site at events as an operations producer for ESPN (and ABC) on college football, college basketball, X Games, The Heisman Trophy Presentation, Wimbledon, and French Open Tennis.
Tom’s move to CBS College Sports Network was a return to a company that he had helped to grow as College Sports Television- CSTV. He had been there previously as Director of Remote Operations and later Vice President. At CBS College, Tom leads the technical and financial planning for variety of college sports (including football, basketball, hockey, soccer, baseball, softball, volleyball, The Alt Games, water polo, and lacrosse), works together with CBS Sports Operations, the NCAA, Conferences (including Mountain West, Conference USA, Atlantic 10, Big East, Patriot League), and the Military Service Academies (Army, Navy, and Air Force in MWC).