David Hill has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, FOX Sports Television Group, the entity that oversees the nation’s top-rated network for sports, including FOXSports.com and FOX’s global presence in sports media, since 1999. In addition to leading all of FOX’s total sports media operations internally, Hill also oversees FSN’s 19 regional sports networks, Fox Soccer Channel, SPEED, Fox Sports en Espanol and FUEL TV as well as the company’s joint venture sports businesses STATS, LLC. and Big Ten Network. Hill and colleague Ed Goren, the President of FOX Sports, also serve as FOX Sports’ Executive Producers.
In April 2009, FOXSports.com moved from Fox Interactive Media to FOX Sports, with Hill in charge of the site’s look, functionality, content and programming. Under Hill’s direction, FOXSports.com established FOX Sports Digital Entertainment; a unit commissioned to create Internet-only programming and introduced a series of mid-day programs under the umbrella Lunch with Benefits in September 2009.
Hill joined FOX Broadcasting Company in December 1993 as President, FOX Sports, responsible for the creation of FOX’s sports division.
He began his career with News Corporation in Great Britain in 1988, when he helped launch Sky Television, Britain’s first satellite TV station, and also introduced Eurosport, a pan-European, multilingual, dedicated sports channel that was a joint venture of Sky Television and the European Broadcast Union.
