Amy Rosenfeld, who has spent many years within the sports activities tv enterprise — first at
ESPN and now at NBC Sports — is becoming a member of Seton Hall University as a Professional-in-Residence
this fall.
Rosenfeld is at present Senior Vice President, Olympics and Paralympics Production
for NBC Sports, overseeing all the community’s Olympic and paralympic protection. She
will co-teach a Live Sports Production class with Center for Sports Media Executive Director B.J. Schecter, specializing in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy as
effectively as the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Rosenfeld can even take part in Center
for Sports Media occasions and can be accessible to mentor choose college students.
“Amy Rosenfeld is a pro’s pro and continues to raise the bar in live sports coverage,”
stated Schecter. “Students will get to study in actual time easy methods to plan and execute protection
of an enormous worldwide occasion from somebody who’s doing it each day. Amy can be
an enormous asset to the University and our college students. I can’t wait to start working carefully
together with her.”
One of Rosenfeld’s crowing achievements up to now at NBC was the thought for and implementation
of Gold Zone, a whiparound present which showcased key moments of Olympic occasions as they occurred.
“Gold Zone is my baby,” stated Rosenfeld. “I haven’t had kids, however I really feel like I’ve one
in Gold Zone. It’s all concerning the concept of discovery. We wish to expose individuals to extra sports activities than
simply [the big events like] swimming, gymnastics and observe and subject.”
Prior to coming to NBC in 2022, Rosenfeld oversaw protection of many giant occasions for
ESPN, together with a number of males’s and ladies’s World Cups, the Indianapolis 500, the X
Games and lots of others.
Students within the College of Human Development, Culture, and Media’s Live Sports Production
course may have the chance to tour NBC Sports’ campus in Stanford, CT, throughout
the semester. A number of chosen college students from the course can even have the chance
to intern for NBC in Stamford throughout the 2026 Winter Games.
“Our College is thrilled to have knowledgeable of Amy Rosenfeld’s caliber instructing
our college students,” commented Bryan Crable, dean of the College of Human Development, Culture,
and Media. “With our Center for Sports Media, Seton Hall college students have a set of alternatives
and experiences that aren’t accessible anyplace else, and because of Amy and NBC Sports
we’ve now added the Winter Olympics to the checklist. For college students fascinated by sports activities
media, that is actually a dream come true.”
About the Center for Sports Media
The Center for Sports Media, which resides within the College of Human Development, Culture,
and Media, was created to focus on the crucial intersection of sports activities, media and
society. Established in 2021 with a present of $2 million from government founder and
ESPN icon Bob Ley ’76, the Center’s mission displays Ley’s pioneering work on the
long-running ESPN present Outside the Lines, which gained a number of Emmys and a Peabody Award throughout his tenure. The Center’s actions
present college students with an interdisciplinary basis for educational coaching and concept
with sensible expertise within the quickly evolving sports activities media trade, whereas additionally
drawing skilled and scholarly consideration to the trade’s influence on up to date
social life.
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