2023 Sports Emmys: Fox Sports’ Joel Santos on Entertaining the Masses With Fox NFL Sunday
The high-profile show won the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly
Story Highlights
When sports fans plop on their respective couches to kickoff their binge watching of football, they’re most likely turning on Fox NFL Sunday. The preeminent NFL pregame show in the business, Fox Sports’ electric cast of host Curt Menefee and analysts Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, and Michael Strahan bring something new to the table every week. The network was awarded the 2023 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly.
At the ceremony, Fox Sports’ Vice President, Production, Joel Santos, discusses the reasons why the show works extremely well and the crew that puts the product in position to succeed every week.
Those credited on the project included:
Executive Producers
Bill Richards, Eric Shanks, Mark Silverman, Brad Zager
Coordinating Producers
Joel Santos, Jacob Ullman
Producers
Judy H. Boyd, Scott Clark, Bernie Kim, Jeremy Mennell, PT Navarro
Feature Producers
Jeffrey Hall, Jonah Meyer, Krystal Nungaray, Jason Palmer, Norm Sousa, David Strumpf, Jesse Weiss
Segment Producers
Rion Hamilton, Connor Trauger
Highlight Producer
Travis Almeida
Director
Stephanie Medina
Associate Producers
Brian Alexander, Sionan Barrett, Taylor Beck, Mary-Hollis Beighley, Mike Berger, Jim Brusca, Bryce Johnson, Annisa Jones, David Kogen, Aimee Leone, Mark McAnaney, Mark Ortega, Milton Palomo, Adam Rich, Ben Sorenson, Danielle Stocki, Sydney Tullai
Operations Producers
Matt Berlin, Lindsay Czarnecki, Sam Demartinis, Matt Engelberg, Melissa Garcia, Jeff Hershey, Scott Lembke, Dustin Myers, Juan-Carlos Ortiz, Kira Pattico, Fernando Perez, Gina Porretti, Michael Rutter, Brendan Simmons, B Stafford, Jessica Toll, Jason Toth
Associate Directors
Marcus Boyd, Dan Masi
Reporters
Erin Andrews, Charissa Thompson
Correspondent
Jay Glazer
Editors
Reza Amini, David Gomez, Adam Greenberg, Maurice Hyett, Mark Kleiman, Tienchiev Ma, Jason Myers, Joe Nargi, Dino Rivera, Dan Rochie, Craig Russo, Luis Sanchez, Brett Shirley, Matt Tan, Ryan Thiel, Bryan Yokomi
Stage Managers
Joanne Kamay, Johnny Pruitt, Michael Strauss
Hosts
Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, Howie Long, Curt Menefee, Sean Payton, Michael Strahan
For more of SVG’s coverage of the 2023 Sports Emmys, visit SVG’s YouTube channel. For more, video interviews, and podcasts with experts from across the sports video production industry, visit SVG On Demand and SVG PLAY.
