NBC Sports figure skating and Opening ceremony broadcaster Terry Gannon
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Episode 581 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Terry Gannon, NBC's lead Olympic figure skating and gymnastics caller as well as a play-by-play announcer and host for the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour. Since October 2025, Gannon has also served as a play-by-play voice for the NBA on NBC and Peacock. In this podcast Gannon discusses how the Opening Ceremony assignment for Milan Cortina came about; calling Olympic figure skating with Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir since the 2014 Olympics and why its worked; why this might be the greatest U.S. figure skating team ever; what a play by play broadcaster should possess when calling figure skating; why Snoop Dogg has popped at the Olympics; working an NBA broadcasting schedule; playing against Michael Jordan in college; winning a basketball championship at N.C. State under Jim Valvano, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 1:03.8 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer is Bill Schultz. |
| 1:13.9 | Today, we have someone who you are going to see a ton of in the month of February on NBC as one of the premier broadcasting assignments. |
| 1:24.3 | Terry Gannon is NBC's lead Olympic figure skating broadcaster, also their |
| 1:30.0 | lead when it comes to gymnastics. For the Milano Cortina Games, he will be hosting the opening |
| 1:37.0 | ceremony with Savannah Guthrie. Those of you who are Olympic fans know that Terry has done a ton |
| 1:42.1 | of closing ceremonies, but I believe this is his first opening ceremony, and that is obviously a significant assignment when it |
| 1:48.1 | comes to broadcasting. |
| 1:49.5 | If you're a golf fan, you also see Terry, obviously, when it comes to the PGA tour and the old |
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