Bob Costas Says He'll Stop Hosting the Olympics When He's 'Had a Long Enough Run'

Rio Games will be his 11th

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Who Bob Costas

Current gig NBC Olympic prime-time host and Football Night in America host

Age 64

Adweek: What's the biggest change you've seen in Olympics coverage in all the years you've been on the scene?

Bob Costas: The scope of the coverage. In Barcelona, we had some 90 hours and people marveled at that. If you look at the Olympics that Jim McKay hosted [in the '70s and '80s], the relative number of hours on American TV was miniscule compared to what we have now.

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