SVG — College SportsVideo Summit

In March 2008, Burke Magnus was promoted to ESPN senior vice president, college sports programming.  In that role, Magnus is responsible for the strategic direction of college football, college basketball and NCAA Championships on the various ESPN platforms. That includes the acquiring and scheduling of programming across ESPN on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN360.com, ESPN Classic and more. He also manages the company’s relationships with college rightsholders, such as the NCAA and conferences. In his role, he was instrumental in the company’s landmark agreements with the BCS and SEC among others.

Prior to his current job, Magnus had served as vice president and general manager of ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network, since November 2004.  Magnus guided all programming, production and operations for ESPNU and led the inter-departmental team responsible for the growth and development of the network and related multi-media initiatives.  Under Magnus’ guidance, ESPNU significantly increased its subscriber count through its satellite and cable affiliation agreements and launched ESPNU.com. He also helped lay the groundwork for the launch of ESPNU HD (August 2008).

Magnus joined ESPN in 1995 as a program associate and in 1996 was promoted to program planner.  In 1998, he advanced to program manager and later became director of brand management in 2000 (later changed to director, programming and acquisitions), primarily responsible for ESPN’s men’s college basketball programming and scheduling.  From 2002-2004, Magnus was a member of the ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE) team where he served as the project manager for several programs, including the biopic on the life of Dale Earnhardt entitled “3”, which was critically acclaimed and the second-highest rated movie of 2004 on ad-supported cable.  Prior to joining ESPN, Magnus was an administration assistant for Soros Fund Management from 1994 to 1995.

Under Magnus’ direction, men’s college basketball ratings increased over multiple consecutive seasons and new initiatives such as Bracket Buster Saturday and College GameDay (basketball version) were introduced. In 2009, the Orlando Sentinel named Magnus #16 on the list of most powerful people in college sports. In 2006, Magnus was named to the distinguished Sports Business Journal Forty Under 40, honoring the most promising young executives in sports business under the age of 40.  For his efforts, in 2005, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch named Magnus the “fourth most powerful person in college basketball.”

Magnus graduated from Holy Cross in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in history and then received his master’s degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts in 1994.  During his time there, he served as a programming intern for CBS Sports from 1993 to 1994.

David Lind is currently the Operations Manager for Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s (IUP) television station, Executive Producer for IUP Sports and Director of the IUP Center for Videoconferencing. He has twenty eight years of video production experience as a Producer, Director, Videographer and Editor. During his career he had the opportunity to work on documentaries and educational productions in India and France. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s he produced, directed and edited a yearly highlight video for the consistently nationally ranked D2 IUP football team. In 2000 he started producing live sports productions for IUP football and basketball. What started out with portable production crash cases and renting satellite uplink trucks has evolved to a production panel truck and web casting. David trains a select group of Communication Media Students as crew personnel. His students gain experience in every production position from director to cable puller during their four years in college. In 2004 the student crew received a Telly Award for their football productions.

Senior Coordinating Producer Bob Lanning oversees live event production and university supplied programming for the Big Ten Network based in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Lanning previously served as Executive Producer for Directors Group, Inc., a Sports and Entertainment production company based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Directors Group, Inc. annually produced content for clients that included ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, FOX, FOX Sports Net, NFL Films and Outdoor Life Network.

From 1999 through 2008, Mr. Lanning produced the NBC broadcast of the Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament for the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation.

In addition, Mr. Lanning has directed the Hi-Definition coverage of The Masters Golf Championship and the U.S. Open Tennis Championship for CBS Sports. Mr. Lanning has been recognized as one of the most accomplished and industry acclaimed directors of Hi-Definition television. He was awarded a special Emmy in 2000 for his direction of the 1999 AFC Championship football game in HD for CBS. Mr. Lanning is also a two-time winner in 2000 and 2001 of the International Electronic Cinema’s prestigious Astrolabium award recognizing outstanding achievement in HD programming.

Mr. Lanning’s thirty-five years of experience in sports television includes eleven Winter and Summer Olympic assignments beginning in 1972 for ABC Sports. He has been involved in five other Summer Olympics (1976 and 1984 with ABC; 1988 and 1992 with NBC; and 1996 with Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting, the host broadcasting organization for the Centennial Olympic Games). In addition, Mr. Lanning was involved with five Winter Olympic broadcasts (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 – all with ABC and 1998 with Turner Sports).

During his extensive television career, Mr. Lanning has won six Emmy awards for outstanding individual achievement (1976 Summer Olympics, 1979 Wide World of Sports, 1982 Indianapolis 500, and the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics) and was nominated in 1984 for the Directors Guild of America Sports award for Gymnastics coverage of the Los Angeles Summer Games.

John Kvatek enters his sixth season as a football support staff member and the Director of Video Services at UCF.

At UCF, Kvatek has overseen unprecedented growth in the Video Services Department. Along with producing all coaches’ video, the department has assumed responsibility for producing all video board content, coaches shows, television ads, and live-event web-streaming.

Prior to his arrival at UCF, Kvatek worked at Pinnacle Systems, Inc., where he worked from 1999-2004. During his tenure at Pinnacle, Kvatek served as a product marketing manager for Networked News and Sports Editing Solutions.

Prior to Pinnacle Systems, Kvatek was the athletic video services coordinator at Wisconsin from 1995-99. During his time in Madison, Kvatek was responsible for the development and utilization of the world’s first digital video network for sports video analysis and editing and was a member of the Kohl Center Design Team.

Kvatek has also worked as a video coordinator at Virginia Tech and Miami (Ohio) in their respective athletic departments. He is a 1995 graduate of Miami University with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications.

A 21-year veteran in the business, Kvatek was named the 2006-07 Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year at the annual Collegiate Sports Video Association Convention in May of 2007. The national honor followed on the heels of being named the 2007 C-USA Video Coordinator of the Year. Previously, he was the Big Ten Video Coordinator of the Year in 1998. Kvatek is also a member of the Customer Advisory Board of XOS Technologies, Inc., and is a member of the Sports Video Group (SVG) Advisory Board.

Kvatek, originally a resident of Creekside, PA, and his wife Michelle have three sons: Conor, Liam and Declan. They reside in Orlando.

Joel Kitay is a four-time Emmy Award-winning television producer and owner of a video production company that specializes in producing video scoreboard shows, short- and long-form television programs, and live game broadcasts and Webcasts.  With offices in both New York and Baltimore, Kitay Productions’ clients include the Washington Redskins, Boston University, Towson University, Army, Columbia University, University of Maryland, American University, CBS College Sports, Comcast SportsNet, and more.

After graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University in 1994, Joel’s television production career began at NFL Films in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, where he was hired as a production assistant on network shows and home video titles. A year later, Kitay jumped at a unique opportunity to return to his hometown to work for the Cleveland Browns football team as its first-ever full-time television producer. When the Cleveland Browns re-located to Baltimore and became the Ravens in 1996, Joel was a key player in building the team’s in-house production department, now known as RaveTV.

Kitay worked for six more years as a staff member of the Ravens, rising to the position of Manager of Broadcasting, and his tenure yielded many unique experiences that paved the way to the creation of his own production company.  Joel produced pre-season game broadcasts, weekly team shows, features, commercials, and video scoreboard programming. In 2000, Kitay accompanied the Ravens on their run to Super Bowl XXXV, broadcasting a show live from Tampa the night before the title game, and following that effort by assisting NFL Films with production of the first edition of the renowned HBO series, “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Baltimore Ravens,” in 2001.

In 2002, Joel left the Ravens on a full-time basis to open Kitay Productions, Inc., and the company immediately inked a multi-year deal to serve as the production firm operating the first-ever video scoreboard systems at the University of Maryland for football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball games. In 2001-2002, Kitay produced the official commemorative home videos for both the Terrapins’ ACC Championship football team and NCAA Championship men’s basketball team.

Since then, the company has expanded on an annual basis, and its recent highlights include serving as executive producer of the Washington Redskins video scoreboard show, directing and editing the “Jim Zorn Show,” designing and operating the video scoreboard system at Agganis Arena at Boston University, producing the video scoreboard show for Towson University, the first FCS school to install a high definition video scoreboard, producing the “Gary Williams Show” for the University of Maryland and “Eye on the Eagles” for American University, producing live college sporting events for Comcast SportsNet, and producing short- and long-form shows for the CBS College Sports Network, including “One2One: Lane Kiffin,” “One2One: Urban Meyer,” and “Inside the Bass Pro Shops Tournament of Champions.”

A married father of two, Joel and his family are residents of Long Island, New York, but Joel splits his time among many client sites, as well as his Baltimore and New York offices.

Kyle B. Kallander is in his 14th year as Big South Conference Commissioner in 2009-10, a tenure that has seen year-to-year growth in marketing and television, an enhanced Internet presence as well as unparalleled success on the field and in the classroom.

Kallander’s development of a long-term strategic plan, which allows the Big South to position itself as unique amongst its peers, has brought football to the Big South as the 18th Conference sport, solidified membership with the recent additions of High Point, VMI, Gardner-Webb and Presbyterian – as well as the return of charter member Campbell University in 2011, increased the League’s television exposure for several sports through strong partnerships with regional and national outlets, and spearheaded video streaming of Big South games and events on the League’s web site, which began in 2005-06 and now features more than 600 events annually.

Kallander has presided over some of the most pivotal events in the League’s entire history both athletically and academically.  During his tenure, the Big South has reached the NCAA “Sweet 16” in men’s soccer, women’s basketball and baseball; has had two individual National Champions; had its first All-Americans in men’s and women’s cross country; has had an individual reach the round of 32 in the NCAA Men’s Singles Championship (Radford’s Martin Sayer), has started football and reached the FCS playoffs in five years; had its first-ever national finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year (Winthrop’s Janiva Willis); had members defeat the No. 1-ranked football and baseball team in the nation (Coastal Carolina football vs. James Madison, and Winthrop and Coastal Carolina baseball vs. North Carolina); had its first-ever NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament first round win (Winthrop); had its first-ever berth in the NCAA Baseball Super Regionals (Coastal Carolina); has placed two teams in the NCAA Baseball Regionals five times; has had a baseball team earn a No. 1 seed and host an NCAA Regional; had its highest-ever team finish in an NCAA event (Coastal Carolina men’s golf, fifth in 2007); has had women’s basketball, men’s soccer, softball and baseball televised for the first time; has had a softball team reach the Regional Championship game (Winthrop); has participated and been successful in the ESPN BracketBusters men’s basketball event, and has utilized live video streaming of Conference events to elevate the League’s exposure to new audiences.

The Conference has produced more All-Americans since Kallander took office, while increasing its share of Academic All-Americans and All-District selections.  More than 40 percent of the League’s student-athletes have achieved at least a 3.0 grade point average the last seven years, while several student-athletes have been recipients of Postgraduate Scholarships during his timeframe.  Kallander has also successfully integrated the Conference’s profile with the member institutions’ general student body, notably through the development of the Big South Academic Consortium, which sponsors the annual Academic College Bowl among League members and the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium.  Furthermore, the Big South began offering one male and one female graduating student-athlete a Graduate Fellowship for postgraduate studies in 2006.

Named the Big South’s third commissioner in August, 1996, Kallander formed the Big South Marketing Group (BSMG) upon his arrival, a partnership with member institutions that enables the Conference to develop an integrated marketing strategy and offer comprehensive corporate partnership packages.  More recently, the Big South Business Group (BSBG) was created, involving the Chief Financial Officers from each member institution.  The BSBG explores ways that members can benefit through working together and with Conference corporate partners.  Kallander has overseen a revision of the League’s governance structure and has been instrumental in securing record sponsorship revenues in the past decade, and has been innovative in developing and executing a public relations plan for the Big South, which has resulted in increased exposure, both on a regional and national level.

Nationally, Kallander has been heavily involved in several organizations and committees.  He served on the NCAA/USOC Task Force, examining the decline of Olympic sports programs at the nation’s college and universities, chaired the NCAA Olympic Sports Liaison Committee, and served on the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics.  He currently serves on the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.

As a testament to his leadership, Kallander continues to secure aggressive television packages through relationships with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), SportSouth and ESPN/ESPNU, as well as partnerships with FSN, Fox College Sports and CBS College Sports.  Furthermore, the Big South Television Network (BSTN) was created by Kallander in 2001 to serve as a syndicate of Conference events to a regional group of TV stations and cable networks.  The partnerships have brought the Big South new and enhanced television exposure for its member institutions and student-athletes.  The Conference’s online broadband channel, the Big South Network, serves a world-wide audience.

Kallander came to the Big South after serving as Southwest Conference Commissioner during the 1995-96 season.  Under his guidance, the Southwest generated more than $22 million in revenue, an all-time record.  Kallander was also directly responsible for negotiating and implementing television agreements with CBS, Raycom and Prime Sports Southwest for the 1995-96 football and basketball seasons.  He successfully administered the league’s postseason basketball tournaments, which attracted its largest attendance since 1990, and also served as Tournament Director for the 1996 NCAA Men’s Basketball Midwest Region First and Second Round Games in Dallas.

Kallander began his collegiate athletics career at his alma mater, the University of Washington, in 1985, where he spent seven years in the athletic department, serving as director of Advertising & Promotions, as well as the Director of Compliance.  He joined the Southwest Conference in 1992 as Assistant Commissioner.

Kallander received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physical Education in 1980, and a Master of Science Degree in Kinesiology in 1982, from Washington.  He is married to the former Lisa Dallosto and has two children, Stefan, 19, and Tristan, 16.

A South Bend native, John Heisler is in his 32nd year as a member of the Notre Dame athletic staff, including 15 years as sports information director at Notre Dame after spending 10 previous years as a member of the sports publicity staff. He added the title of assistant athletics director in 1995, and then was named associate athletics director in 2001. Heisler was promoted to senior associate athletics director in October of 2004.

He has administrative duties working with the men’s lacrosse program, and also has responsibility in the areas of media relations, contest scheduling, broadcast properties and assists with external events including football and basketball luncheons, banquets, and pep rallies. He is also a key department liaison to Notre Dame Sports Properties, the athletic marketing branch of the department, and its general manager, Scott Corriera.

Heisler originally joined the athletic staff in April 1978 as assistant sports information director and was promoted to associate director in July 1982 under former longtime sports information director Roger Valdiserri.

Heisler helped edit a variety of award-winning publications during his career, including 25 judged best in the nation by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) panels. He worked primarily with the Notre Dame football and basketball departments following his promotion to associate director, and produced nine top-ranked football media guides and four more in basketball.

He also has edited Irish football highlight films and coordinated production of various other Notre Dame video products and merchandise. He has done color analysis of Notre Dame basketball games on both radio and television.

Heisler spent four years working in the University of Missouri sports information office as a student, handling publicity for basketball and non-revenue sports. Following his graduation from the School of Journalism in December of 1976, he was named the first full-time assistant to Missouri sports information director Bill Callahan-then moved to Notre Dame one year later.

He helped direct research operations in Los Angeles for ABC Sports coverage of the `84 Olympics, worked with NBC Sports as an administrator of its research operation for its coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta — and served as network liaison with ABC Sports for its coverage of the 1987 International Summer Special Olympics at Notre Dame.

Heisler and written, co-written or edited eight books on Notre Dame football. He assisted former Irish coach Lou Holtz in the writing of “The Fighting Spirit,” the best-selling story of Notre Dame’s `88 national championship football season and edited “Quotable Rockne”, a book of Knute Rockne quotations published in 2001. Heisler collaborated with former Irish coach Gerry Faust and Chicago sportswriter Bob Logan on “Gerry Faust’s Tales from the Notre Dame Sideline” in 2004 and edited “Echoes of Notre Dame Football,” published in 2005. In 2007 he edited “Then Ara Said to Joe,” a collection of tales about Notre Dame football — and also authored “University of Notre Dame Football Vault,” a coffee-table-style scrapbook history of Notre Dame football. In 2008, he wrote “Greatest Moments in Notre Dame Football History” – and in 2009 he wrote “100 Things Notre Dame Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.”

Heisler served as media coordinator for NCAA men’s basketball tournament games at Notre Dame in 1985 and `88 and has worked at five NCAA Final Four events. He helped initiate the CoSIDA writing contest as part of his longtime involvement with the writing committee that promotes excellence in writing among CoSIDA members. In 2003, he was named to the CoSIDA Hall of Fame, received the Heisman Memorial Trophy Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to collegiate football and the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director Award from the All-American Football Foundation. In June `04, he received the CoSIDA 25-Year Award. In 1994, he received the Special Presidential Award from Notre Dame president Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., and was awarded an honorary monogram by the Notre Dame Monogram Club in 1991. In 2009 he received the Bob Williams Helping Hand Award from the Indiana Sportswriters & Sportscasters Association.

Born Nov. 13, 1954, Heisler and his wife, Karen (she teaches in the film/television/theatre department at Notre Dame), are parents of two sons, Scott (he plays lacrosse at the College of Wooster) and Timothy.

Nate Flannery is in his first year as Vice President for Content Strategy at WebStream Productions.

In his current capacity, Flannery serves as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Horizon League Network (HLN), the conference’s comprehensive video streaming venture. His duties include coordinating live event Webcasts, managing on-demand content, marketing/promoting the network, overseeing the HLN Website, and generating revenue through the platform.

Flannery also has responsibilities in new business development, live event production, and Website development for WSP.

Founded in 2006, WebStream Productions is a leader in live sports Webcasting with clients including the NCAA, Horizon League, Indianapolis Indians, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Producers of more than 400 live events each year and countless features, interviews, and other on-demand content, WebStream Productions is committed to delivering television-quality content to computer screens and portable devices.

John Kvatek is in his seventh season as a football support staff member and the Director of Video Services at UCF.

At UCF, Kvatek has overseen unprecedented growth in the Video Services Department. Along with producing all coaches’ video, the department has assumed responsibility for producing all video board content, coaches shows, television ads, and live-event web-streaming.

Prior to his arrival at UCF, Kvatek worked at Pinnacle Systems, Inc., where he worked from 1999-2004. During his tenure at Pinnacle, Kvatek served as a product marketing manager for Networked News and Sports Editing Solutions.

Prior to Pinnacle Systems, Kvatek was the athletic video services coordinator at Wisconsin from 1995-99. During his time in Madison, Kvatek was responsible for the development and utilization of the world’s first digital video network for sports video analysis and editing and was a member of the Kohl Center Design Team.

Kvatek has also worked as a video coordinator at Virginia Tech and Miami (Ohio) in their respective athletic departments. He is a 1995 graduate of Miami University with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications.

A 21-year veteran in the business, Kvatek was named the 2006-07 Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year at the annual Collegiate Sports Video Association Convention in May of 2007. The national honor followed on the heels of being named the 2007 C-USA Video Coordinator of the Year. Previously, he was the Big Ten Video Coordinator of the Year in 1998. Kvatek is also a member of the Customer Advisory Board of XOS Technologies, Inc., and is a member of the Sports Video Group (SVG) Advisory Board.

Kvatek, originally a resident of Creekside, PA, and his wife Michelle have three sons: Conor, Liam and Declan. They reside in Orlando.

Mike Bilbow accepted the position of Executive Director of New Media for the Georgia ISP Sports Network in March 2009. Previously, he was the Director of Video Services for The University of Tulsa, where he oversaw the production of all coaches’ shows, video board content, and Web streaming/podcasts. An award-winning photographer, Bilbow began his career at KJRH (NBC) in Tulsa, where he also produced the state’s first 30-minute weekly sports program.

Bilbow earned his bachelor’s degree in Radio, Television and Film from The Oklahoma State University in 1991. Mike is married to the former Molly Thomas of Tulsa, and has 2 sons — Jackson (11) and Connor (7).

Mike Bilbow accepted the position of Executive Director of New Media for the Georgia ISP Sports Network in March 2009. Previously, he was the Director of Video Services for The University of Tulsa, where he oversaw the production of all coaches’ shows, video board content, and Web streaming/podcasts. An award-winning photographer, Bilbow began his career at KJRH (NBC) in Tulsa, where he also produced the state’s first 30-minute weekly sports program.

Bilbow earned his bachelor’s degree in Radio, Television and Film from The Oklahoma State University in 1991. Mike is married to the former Molly Thomas of Tulsa, and has 2 sons — Jackson (11) and Connor (7).