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Rob Dustin

American television producer and director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ64010915
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Robert Dustin, also known as Dusty, is an American Emmy awarded television producer and director. He is known for his work in television programs such as Halloween! (1994), My Sergi (1998) and Fire on Ice: Champions of American Figure Skating (2001).

Early life and career

Rob Dustin graduated from the University of Iowa. He began his career working for CBS Sports, covering sports events and remained working there for 17 years until he founded Red Brick Entertainment in 1994.

In 2007, when U.S. Figure Skating created an ice network the International Skating Union hired Dustin and Red Brick Entertainment for providing real TV production using multiple cameras. His team consisted of four crew members, to keep the cost down what Dustin calls “high-speed, low-drag approach”.

In 2010, U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Dustin helped coordinate the coverage of the event. Dustin also is a longtime Coordinating producer in covering the ice skating championships in the Olympics.

Filmography

Awards and honors

Rob Dustin has been nominated for and won the Sports Emmy Award numerous times.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1998, 2001, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dustin, American and television can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Rob Dustin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.