Norby Williamson

Executive Vice President, Studio & Remote Production

In October 2005, Norby Williamson was promoted to the position of executive vice president, studio and remote production, overseeing all ESPN and ABC game, event and studio production work for domestic television and radio networks.  With the addition of remote production, he oversees Monday Night Football, NBA, Major League Baseball, college basketball, including the Women’s NCAA Tournament, college football and the wide variety of events that the networks televise.      

Williamson continues to oversee studio production which includes SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, Sunday NFL Countdown, College GameDay, Baseball Tonight, NFL PrimeTime, Monday Night Countdown, NFL Live, NBA Nation and NBA Shootaround.  He is also responsible for the networks’ on-site coverage of major events, such as the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series, MLB All-Star Game, Stanley Cup Finals, Men’s and Women’s Final Four, golf’s four major championships, BCS national championship, the Indianapolis 500, Triple Crown and championship boxing.

In 2006, Williamson placed #67 on The Sporting News Power 100, his first year of inclusion on the prestigious list. 

From September 2002 until the latest promotion, Williamson served as senior vice president and managing editor at ESPN, responsible for the day-to-day content of all news and information programming on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS.  He provided leadership and editorial direction for the largest television sports news-gathering operation in the U.S. 

Prior to that, Williamson served as a vice president and assistant managing editor (2000-02) responsible for SportsCenter, ESPNEWS, Baseball Tonight, on-site studio coverage of golf special events and the network’s studio highlights operation.

Since joining ESPN in June 1985, Williamson has served as production assistant (1985-87), associate producer (1987-89), highlights supervisor (1989), producer (1990-93), coordinating producer (1993-94), senior coordinating producer for SportsCenter (1998-99) and assistant managing editor and news director (1999-2000).

Prior to assuming management responsibilities in 1999, Williamson’s production work on select ESPN studio programs received a total of five awards, including Sports EmmyAwards for SportsCenter (1990) and NFL GameDay (1988) and three CableACE Awards for SportsCenter (1990, '91) and NFL GameDay (1989).