Tony Petitti new Big Ten commissioner

[TonyLiebert]

 

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background courtesy of Wikipedia- heavy broadcasting background.

Tony Petitti is the former president of sports and entertainment of Activision Blizzard.

He was formerly the chief operating officer of Major League Baseball. He succeeded Rob Manfred in the position on January 25, 2015, after Manfred became Commissioner of Baseball. He previously served as the president and chief executive officer of the MLB Network, where he oversaw all of the network's day-to-day operations.
Petitti attended Haverford College, where he majored in economics before attending Harvard Law School. He worked for two years at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft before joining ABC Sports in 1988 as general attorney. After being named vice president of programming, where he was responsible for acquiring and scheduling ABC Sports programming, he was hired by CBS in 1997 as senior vice president of business affairs and programming. In December 2005, Pettiti was named executive vice president, CBS Sports and is "responsible for all day-to-day operations of CBS Sports, "[1] where he was largely responsible for the network's NFL coverage. "Basically, I’m responsible for everything you see on Sunday."[2]

It was announced on January 3, 2008, that Petitti would be placed in charge of day-to-day operations of CSTV, the college sports network that was absorbed into CBS sports, effectively replacing network co-founder Brian Bedol, who had been serving as president of CSTV since the network was purchased by CBS Corporation in 2005. CSTV was renamed the CBS College Sports Network on March 16, 2008, and eventually evolved to become CBS Sports Network.

In April 2008 Pettiti left CBS to become the head of MLB Network, which launched in January 2009.[

 

[gopherphil]

Well being and mlb network president doesn’t have me excited.

Had a mlb network subscription and the twins were blacked out for the entire week of my trial.. The fans are being shit on again.

 

[Bayfieldgopher]

Should have hired PJ!!

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

What a Petitti choice.

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[U2Gopher]

Without knowing much about him, I think that on the surface, this seems to be a great hire. Coming from the tv side of things, he should be more than qualified to navigate that landscape, which is important since that is where the bulk of the dollars come from.

 

[Jack jones]

Sure hope he shows some courage and announces to the game officials that the head official will hold a press conference immediately after the game-same as coaches-and justify key calls. (And please don’t use the excuse that officials wouldn’t work BIG games, just a bunch of B.S.). And hopefully he will give coaches the right to question officials in public.

 

[Ron Johnson Super Fan]

Sure hope he shows some courage and announces to the game officials that the head official will hold a press conference immediately after the game-same as coaches-and justify key calls. (And please don’t use the excuse that officials wouldn’t work BIG games, just a bunch of B.S.). And hopefully he will give coaches the right to question officials in public.

I suspect you’ll be disappointed on all counts.