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Footy Show boss appointed Director of FOX Sports

Head of Event Television at Nine, Gary Burns, to become Director of FOX Sports Channels.

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Premier Media Group has appointed Gary Burns as Director FOX Sports Channels.

Currently Head of Event Television at Nine, he has had 20 years at Nine including as Head of Sport and Executive Producer, Midday with Ray Martin and the NRL Footy Show.

He also had 5 years as Head of Television at TVN Racing Network.

FOX Sports CEO, Patrick Delany, said: “We are pleased to announce Gary’s appointment as Head of FOX Sports 1, 2 and 3 based in our Sydney office.

“Gary brings tremendous experience in producing live sport to FOX Sports. He will assume control of our team of Executive Producers in NRL, Rugby, Football, Cricket and Tennis and with his vision and expertise will take our productions to a new level.

Burns added: “I relish the opportunity to join the FOX Sports team. I have always loved producing live sport, which is the domain of FOX Sports with over 8,000 hours produced per annum across FOX Sports 1, 2 and 3.

“The magazine programming that FOX Sports produces to complement its live sport offering is unrivalled on Australian television, and will be further enhanced when the channels move to state-of-the-art HD studios and facilities at the new FOX Sports headquarters in Gore Hill in early 2013.”

He will commence his new role in 2012.

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  3. That’s another key person to leave Nine ( Head of Publicity and Head of Drama) and no replacements announced. Do Nine have a staff headcount freeze due to their precarious financial situation? It must be impossible to recruit anyone into a key role anyway.

  5. That doesn’t sound good. Coming from nine he will probably think it is acceptable for fox sports to go back to broadcasting in SD only just like nine has done.

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