Event Preview: Tracy Dolgin ('81)

 

Join the Cornell Sports Business Society in Ives 105 on Thursday, October 24 at 4:45, as we host alumnus Tracy Dolgin (’81). The event, co-hosted along with the Big Red Sports Network,  will take the format of  an “Ask Me Anything,” Q&A with the audience.

Since 2004, Tracy Dolgin has been the President & CEO of YES Network, which is the #1 regional sports network in the country, and the exclusive television home of the 27-time World Champion New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nets.

Dolgin received his bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1981 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1983.

Dolgin began his career at General Foods in product management, before becoming the Senior Vice President of Marketing at HBO Video from 1986 to 1992. After spending time with FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX/Liberty Cable, Dolgin served as President of FOX Sports Net from 2000-2003. Prior to becoming President and CEO of YES in 2004, Dolgin was also Managing Director and Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Media, Sports and Entertainment practice.

Under Dolgin, YES became the first television network to produce a MLB game in 3D, the first television network to offer its MLB telecasts streamed live to its in-market customers, and the first television network to produce interactive MLB telecasts. Throughout his career, Dolgin has earned many industry accolades, including several Emmys, Clios and Worldwide Cannes Awards. In 2009 he was named one of Sports Business Journal magazine’s “50 Most Influential People in Sports Business.”

The network Dolgin is responsible for, YES, has won 67 New York Emmy Awards, as well. YES has been the most-watched and popular regional sports network in the country the past nine years, with its Yankees broadcasts consistently being some of the most viewed programming nationwide. Today, the network boasts more than 250 advertisers. Not only does YES have the most in-market subscribers than any other regional sports network in the country, but it has the most subscribers outside its territory than any other regional sports network.

As always we thank alumni like Tracy for generously sharing their time and knowledge with SBS. 

We hope you can join us for this Q&A for what is sure to be a high-end discussion with a true sports business icon.  Check out the event on Facebook for more information.