Erik Barnhart

Oversee above-the-line staff, commentators and technicians, sponsor integration and signal distribution, as well as line-produce for the following live event coverage:

• NHL & NBA – 3 ½ hr programming blocks including 30-minute pre and post-game shows
• NBC Olympics Men's and Women's Soccer
• NWSL Soccer
• Major League Volleyball
• ACC & SEC Men's and Women's Basketball, Soccer, Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball and Field Hockey
• CrossFit: Open, Semifinals, Games and Invitational (ESPN and CBS National Coverage)
• Big Ten Football and Women's Volleyball
• Fox Sports Arena Football (National Coverage)

• Oversee all CrossFit Sport Media including live events, post-produced episodics, digital content and podcasts.
• Main point of contact for all production related vendors - live production events large & small (Open Tab Prods.), domestic and international rightsholder (ESPN), agency (IMG), live scoring (SMT), graphics, operations (Framework) and venue management.
• Collaborate with IMG to develop media distribution strategy
• Align with internal creative, marketing and sponsorship departments for production of high-quality content, meeting tight deadlines, budgets and partner deliverables.
• Manage international live events and episodic content for multiple international rightsholders across 5 continents

• Supervise live event production, live studio production and post-produced original programming for Central Florida team partners, Orlando Magic, Tampa Bay Rays and Tampa Bay Lightning, totaling over 365 events and shows per year
• Oversee full-time staff of 12 in production, operations and engineering plus 32 freelance commentators and above-the-line production personnel and over 150 technicians
• Propose and guide a $15M+ per year production budget
• Evaluate production staff, commentators and overall production and technical quality of all content
• Build and advance relationships with team partner ownership, arena operations, league offices, other regional sports networks, remote production truck vendors and technician crewers

• Lead a department of 8 staff members in managing radio and television game productions and shoulder programming (pre, post, intermission, weekly coach's show and specials)
• Conceptualize and oversee pre and post-production for original programming, game presentation content, promotional, sponsor and image pieces
• Direct radio and television commercial traffic and production
• Negotiate and execute rightsholder agreements and commentator contracts
• Game Producer for Fox Sports including pre and post-game shows
• Executive Producer of the Predators Radio Network consisting of the flagship station and 8 affiliates across 3 states
• Produce, write, shoot and edit content for Predators programming and internal projects