Keith Pelley, President & CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
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Keith Pelley, President & CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
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About this listen
He might be one of the most powerful people in Canadian media. Keith Pelley started from humble beginnings and has climbed the media ladder achieving some of the greatest accomplishments in sports media. Keith now holds the title as the President & CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), one of the biggest sports ownership groups in North America.
Stephen Brunt sat down with Keith in the Toronto Raptors dressing room to discuss his early days at TSN after graduating from Ryerson's Radio Television Arts (RTA) program (2:00), working as a TV producer in the USA for FOX (10:30), being hired by Rick Brace to oversee TSN (16:00), run the 2010 Winter Olympic consortium in Vancouver (16:40), hired as the president of Rogers Media following the Olympics (22:00), details around the Rogers 12-yr NHL media rights deal (23:10), moving to London to run the European Golf Tour (DP World Tour) (29:50), coming back home to take the top job at MLSE (37:00), and Bell selling their stake in MLSE to Rogers (43:40).
Audio Credits: CBC, CBS, CTV, ESPN, Sportsnet Radio and TSN.
This series is supported by GroupM Motion Entertainment.
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