Falco previously served as president of NBC’s Broadcast and Network Operations division. Named to that position in February 1993, he oversaw the facilities and operations of the NBC Television Network worldwide. Falco was responsible for overseeing the design and creation of the Today show’s “window on the world” studio, MSNBC’s state-of-the-art broadcast facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey, and the digital conversion of the NBC Television Network.

Before his appointment as the head of Broadcast and Network Operations, Falco had been the senior vice president of NBC Olympics and NBC Sports since March 1989. He was responsible for staging the broadcasts of both the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, having won Emmys for both broadcasts. He recently earned two more Emmy Awards for his contribution to NBC’s broadcast of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. From June 1986 until September 1991, he also served as vice president of Finance and Administration, NBC Sports. Before that, he held several managerial positions in Finance, Technical Operations and Corporate Strategic Planning after joining NBC in September 1975.

Falco is a graduate of Iona College, where he received his bachelor’s of business administration in finance in 1975 and his master’s of business administration, also in finance, in 1979. He received an honorary doctorate from Iona in April 2001. He lives in Pound Ridge, New York, with his wife, Susan, and their three children.

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