FOX Sports Media Group has elevated Bill Richards to Coordinating Producer of FOX NFL SUNDAY, America\u2019s most-watched NFL pregame show, and all of FOX Sports\u2019 NFL-related studio programming, including THE OT postgame program.\u00a0 The announcement was made today by FSMG President & Co-COO Eric Shanks.\u00a0 Richards steps into the role Scott Ackerson, recently promoted, had held since 1994.<\/p>\n
One of the most versatile and creative members of the FOX Sports production team, Richards has held a variety of positions over the past 15 years.\u00a0 His most visible came in February when he served as line producer for FOX SUPER BOWL SUNDAY prior to Super Bowl XLV in North Texas.<\/p>\n
Richards spent seven seasons (2004-10) as the lead producer of FOX NASCAR SUNDAY, the network\u2019s critically-acclaimed prerace show.\u00a0 He also produced comedian Frank Caliendo\u2019s \u201cFrank\u2019s Picks\u201d segment, one of the most popular and entertaining features on FOX NFL SUNDAY, and more recently has overseen FUEL TV\u2019s studio programming including The Daily Habit<\/em>, a mix of athletes, bands and celebrity interviews.\u00a0 Richards is also co-creator, producer and director of Cubed<\/em>, a weekly sports variety show airing on FOXSports.com and FUEL TV.\u00a0 His work with FOX Sports has been recognized with six Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n \u201cBill is one of the best and brightest young producers in the business and we\u2019re confident he will maintain the high production standards for which FOX NFL SUNDAY and THE OT are renowned,\u201d Shanks said.\u00a0 \u201cBill has refined his skills under Scott Ackerson\u2019s expert tutelage, while also stepping out on his own to produce FOX NASCAR SUNDAY.\u00a0 Bill\u2019s longtime role on FOX NFL SUNDAY ensures a seamless transition into his new position.\u201d<\/p>\n Richards joined the network production staff in 1996 where he has spent his entire professional career.\u00a0 Richards graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in broadcast journalism.<\/p>\n Ackerson was recently promoted to Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of all studio programming for the networks and entities within FOX Sports Media Group, which includes FOX Sports, Fox Sports Regional Networks, SPEED, FOX Deportes, FOX Soccer, FUEL TV and FOXSports.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOX Sports Media Group has elevated Bill Richards to Coordinating Producer of FOX NFL SUNDAY, America\u2019s most-watched NFL pregame show, and all of FOX Sports\u2019 NFL-related studio programming, including THE […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5274,438],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}