SVG All-Stars: Kendall Burgess, as VP, Local Media Technical Operations, Major League Baseball

SVG All-Stars: Kendall Burgess, as VP, Local Media Technical Operations, Major League Baseball has more than two decades of experience in the sports-broadcasting industry and has made a name for herself as one of the stalwarts of the regional-sports-production sector.

In 2023, as seismic change began to shake up the regional-sports-rights landscape, Major League Baseball launched its own Local Media department to help navigate the changing industry.

Today, MLB Local Media Department is responsible for all regional game broadcasts for the San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Colorado Rockies and oversees broadcasts for the new national Roku MLB Sunday Leadoff package.

Prior to joining MLB Local Media, she was VP, technical operations, Bally Sports, working with production and engineering to provide direction for the 19 Bally Sports regional networks across the country, which produce more than 4,500 sports events annually.

She shares her story, her philosophy, and advice for getting into the industry: I believe there are several exciting things happening, with variations on centralized and cloud-based equipment integration.

These arent necessarily the things that have an on-air impact, but they can make your workflows more efficient and/or add equipment redundancy for backup purposes.

Some of these systems might even save money so you can spend on the flashy things that enhance your broadcasts.

Communicate, communicate, communicate.

And then, when you think you have been thorough, communicate again.

Operations is ultimately responsible for thousands of details in a live production, and all of them are important to the success of the broadcast.

In my current role, my favorite event was our first-ever MLB Local Media game with the Padres in Miami on May 31, 2023.

Along with many talented people at the league office and MLB Network, we set up an entirely new system to produce these games in a very short time.

It was extremely rewarding to finally get on the air and see all that hard work pay off.

The summer before my senior year in journalism school at UGA, I interned at FOX Sports South in Atlanta.

That summer, I took every opportunity I could find to learn about the business, including my first-ever visit to a production truck, where I was hooked right away.

After graduation, they hired me back, and I stayed with that company in various capacities for over 20 years.

I loved working in production at the beginning of my career, but, in some ways, I feel like my first real job was when I moved over to operations in 2004 because that became my career focus.

This business is incredibly small, so your relationships and your reputation are everything.

The people in our industry are what makes it so special.

Always try to be kind and work hard (in that order)..

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