Bob Fishman is Senior Consultant, Scott Winer Productions, lending his expertise in television production to help guide and support SWP projects since 2002.
Fishman has directed nearly every major sport in the U.S. including such events as the Final Four and National Championship, Daytona 500, World Series, U.S. Open Tennis Championships, Belmont Stakes and Olympic figure skating, among others.
He currently serves as a director for the NFL on CBS and as Lead Director for CBS Sports' coverage of college basketball and U.S. Open Tennis.
An 11-time Emmy Award winner, Fishman has won five Emmys for college basketball coverage (1982, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1992) and has directed CBS Sports' coverage of figure skating at the Olympic Winter Games in 1992, 1994 and 1998, including the world broadcast feed from Lillehammer (1994). He also directed CBS' coverage of the Opening Ceremony at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano.
He served as director for the Network's coverage of the Daytona 500 (1979-2000), won the 1986 Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Special, and helped to develop RaceCam (miniature remote-controlled in-car camera). He directed The NFL Today for six years, winning two Emmy awards (1977, 1978); Major League Baseball, winning an Emmy Award for the 1993 World Series; thoroughbred racing, winning the 1983 and 1985 Eclipse Award.
Fishman has received three Director's Guild of America (DGA) awards: for college basketball (1988), U.S. Open Tennis Championships (1989) and MLB's ALCS Game Four (1990). He also received an entertainment DGA Award nomination for Sergei Grinkov: Celebration of A Life.
He has directed several CBS Entertainment specials, including Back on the Ice, about Scott Hamilton's return to figure skating following his battle with cancer and Dolphins, Whales and Us, an underwater documentary, which received the International Cine-Golden Eagle Award in 1990 for documentary filmmaking.
Fishman joined CBS News in 1972 as production assistant and associate director before moving to CBS Sports as studio director and director of The NFL Today (1976-81). Born in New York City and raised in the Virgin Islands, he is a graduate of Boston University.
Fishman has directed nearly every major sport in the U.S. including such events as the Final Four and National Championship, Daytona 500, World Series, U.S. Open Tennis Championships, Belmont Stakes and Olympic figure skating, among others.
He currently serves as a director for the NFL on CBS and as Lead Director for CBS Sports' coverage of college basketball and U.S. Open Tennis.
An 11-time Emmy Award winner, Fishman has won five Emmys for college basketball coverage (1982, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1992) and has directed CBS Sports' coverage of figure skating at the Olympic Winter Games in 1992, 1994 and 1998, including the world broadcast feed from Lillehammer (1994). He also directed CBS' coverage of the Opening Ceremony at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano.
He served as director for the Network's coverage of the Daytona 500 (1979-2000), won the 1986 Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Special, and helped to develop RaceCam (miniature remote-controlled in-car camera). He directed The NFL Today for six years, winning two Emmy awards (1977, 1978); Major League Baseball, winning an Emmy Award for the 1993 World Series; thoroughbred racing, winning the 1983 and 1985 Eclipse Award.
Fishman has received three Director's Guild of America (DGA) awards: for college basketball (1988), U.S. Open Tennis Championships (1989) and MLB's ALCS Game Four (1990). He also received an entertainment DGA Award nomination for Sergei Grinkov: Celebration of A Life.
He has directed several CBS Entertainment specials, including Back on the Ice, about Scott Hamilton's return to figure skating following his battle with cancer and Dolphins, Whales and Us, an underwater documentary, which received the International Cine-Golden Eagle Award in 1990 for documentary filmmaking.
Fishman joined CBS News in 1972 as production assistant and associate director before moving to CBS Sports as studio director and director of The NFL Today (1976-81). Born in New York City and raised in the Virgin Islands, he is a graduate of Boston University.