044 Geoffrey Mason

Geoffrey Mason is one of sports television’s most accomplished and honored production executives. A 26-time Emmy Award winner, he has more than 50 years of domestic and international broadcast experience. Prior to his 30-year career at ESPN, Mason was Executive Producer at ABC Sports. There, his credits included seven Olympic Games (Summer and Winter), Monday Night Football (Super Bowl XXV), Major League Baseball (World Series 1989), U.S. Open/PGA/British Open Golf, Triple Crown Thoroughbred Racing, Indianapolis 500, ABC’s Wide World of Sports and Tour de France. In 2003, Mason helped launch the NFL Network in Culver City, Calif. He was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2010. Mason served for 17 years on the Board of Directors at the Betty Ford Center, and he is a Founding Board Member at the V Foundation for Cancer Research. He is presently the CEO and Executive Producer of his own production company, Mainstay Communications, Inc. Until recently, Mason served as Senior Olympics Content Consultant to Discovery Eurosport in Paris. Mason recently joined the Board of Directors of Program Productions, Inc. PPI – and its group of sister companies – are North America’s largest labor management firm serving the sports broadcasting industry.