Question: What prime-time host of 12 Olympic Games got his start at station WAER in New York?
Context: The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in London, United Kingdom.  After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin.  The 1940 Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then for Helsinki; the 1944 Games had been provisionally planned for London.  This was the second occasion that London had hosted the Olympic Games, having previously been the venue in 1908, forty years earlier.  (The Olympics again returned to London in 2012, making it thus far the only city to host the games three times.)  The 1948 games were the first of two summer Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Sigfrid Edström. The Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) is a New York State public benefit corporation, created by the State of New York to manage the facilities used during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games at Lake Placid, New York.  ORDA operates the ski areas at Whiteface Mountain and Gore Mountain, and Belleayre Mountain, the Olympic Sports Complex, located five miles from Lake Placid at Mount Van Hoevenberg, the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex and the ice skating complex.  In addition to the Olympic complexes that ORDA operates they also run a store in downtown Lake Placid.  ORDA receives funding from New York State, the town of North Elba and the United States Federal Government.  The Olympic Regional Development Authority continues to host world cup events that the public can watch and enjoy.  One of the events that ORDA held at Whiteface Mountain in 2009 was Skier Cross and was new in 2010 at the Vancouver Olympics.  In order to help run the events that go on throughout the year, ORDA relies on volunteers to help with parking, crowd control, and as chaperons. Simon Clegg CBE (b. 11 Aug 1959) is one of the UK’s most experienced sports businessmen and leaders.  He has been Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association, a Championship Football Club and a European Youth Olympic Festival.  He was Chief Operating Officer of the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku.  He has also managed the British Biathlon Team and Team GB athletes at 12 Olympic and Olympic Winter Games.  In addition he orchestrated the national political and PR campaigns to persuade the Government and Mayor of London to bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 14, 1958) is an American physician and a former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist.  Heiden won an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States.  He was the most successful athlete at those Olympic Games, single-handedly winning more gold medals than all nations except for the Soviet Union (10) and East Germany (9).  He is the most successful Winter Olympian from a single edition of any Winter Olympics.  He delivered the Athlete's Oath at those same 1980 Games. The WOR Radio Network was a slate of nationally syndicated radio programming produced and distributed by flagship radio station WOR in New York City.  The programming was primarily general interest commercial talk; only one non-talk program had ever been carried on the network, WAER's "Big Bands, Ballads and Blue". WAER (88.3 FM) is a radio station in Syracuse, New York.  It is located on the campus of Syracuse University, and is an auxiliary service of the school.  The station features a jazz music and National Public Radio format, with a news and music staff providing programming around the clock.  It is best known, however, for its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Dick Stockton, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Bill Roth, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, Adam Schein, Hank Greenwald, Dave O'Brien (sportscaster), Andy Musser, Beth Mowins, Andrew Catalon, Carter Blackburn, Dave Pasch, Cory Provus, Jason Benetti, Todd Kalas and many others.  Lou Reed also hosted a free-format show on WAER during his time at Syracuse University; this free-format radio tradition at Syracuse is carried on by WERW.  Other alums include Ted Koppel, Jerry Stiller and Dick Clark. Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.  He was the prime-time host of 12 Olympic Games, from 1992 until 2016.  Costas currently does play-by-play for MLB Network and hosts an interview show called "Studio 42 with Bob Costas". The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games (German: "Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2012"), officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in Innsbruck, on 13–22 January 2012.  They were the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics, a major sports and cultural festival celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games.  Approximately 1100 athletes from 70 countries competed.  The decision for Innsbruck to host the Games was announced on 12 December 2008 after mail voting by 105 International Olympic Committee (IOC) members.  Innsbruck is the first city to host three winter Olympic events, having previously hosted the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012 as the host nation.  British athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, alongside Australia, France and Greece, though Great Britain is the only one to have won at least one gold medal at all of them.  London is the only city to host the Summer Olympics on three different occasions, having previously done so in 1908 and 1948.  Soon, it will be joined by Paris in 2024 and Los Angeles in 2028 in hosting the Olympic Games for a third time.  Team GB, organised by BOA, sent a total of 541 athletes, 279 men and 262 women, to the Games, and won automatic qualification places in all 26 sports. Tiffany Cherry (born 4 August 1971) is an Australian sports broadcaster, best known as the Australian Football League (AFL's) first female boundary rider on the original Fox Footy.  She was the co-host of the Foxtel 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver as well as a Presenter of the Network's ASTRA Awards winning 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and Logie Award winning 2012 Olympic Games in London.  Cherry also co-hosted a daily Olympic Drivetime show for the UK's national pop and rock radio station, Absolute Radio, live from Hyde Park throughout the duration of the Games with English broadcaster, journalist and television and radio personality, Johnny Vaughan.  Cherry hosted the prime time week night sport on Sky News Australia alongside news presenter, Michael Willesee, Jr. between 2010-2012 before leaving the network to host and produce her own sports radio program, The Hen House on Melbourne's SEN 1116.
Answer: Bob Costas