Among the many broadcasters at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro is a voice that's familiar to Twin Cities sports fans.
Ted Robinson, who came to the Twin Cities in 1980 to serve as Al Shaver's sidekick on Minnesota North Stars radio broadcasts and later broadcast the Twins and University of Minnesota men's basketball team is working his eight Olympics for NBC. He is handling the commentary for diving. Among the Olympic sports Robinson has done for the network are baseball, speed skating, canoeing and snowboarding.
Robinson, who is also the radio voice of the San Francisco 49ers, is also the main voice of NBC's tennis coverage, including the French Open. Since joining the network's tennis coverage in 2000, he has also handled the play-by-play for Wimbledon until 2011. In addition, he has also covered a wide range of sports for the network, including a stint back in the late 80s on the Major League Baseball Game of the Week. He has also covered baseball for the A's, Giants, his hometown Mets (Robinson is a native of Queens) and a second stint with the Twins in 2011.
Robinson's voice was also heard on radio. Prior to his current 49ers assignment, he did Stanford football, CBS Radio's Major League Baseball Game of the Week and for 24 years, one of the play-by-play men for Westwood One's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. He still does basketball for the Pac 12 Network as well as football. He has also filled in for Ron Barr on the nationally syndicated radio talk show Sports Byline USA and also on a Minnesota Timberwolves radio broadcast when Kevin Harlan did the TV broadcast. He also worked on WCCO-TV's coverage of the Minnesota State High School Boys Hockey Tournament in the mid 80s.
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So if you watch the diving competition, not only will viewers hear a familiar voice in Robinson they will also see excellent replays. The replays have been a hallmark of NBC's Olympic coverage, no matter what sport is being shown.
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