 Steve Bornstein
President & CEO, NFL Network
EVP of Media, NFL Acknowledged as one of the most influential sports and entertainment television executives of the last quarter century, Steve Bornstein has headed the NFL's television and digital media businesses since January 2003. At the NFL, Bornstein oversees the league's media division, which includes the relationships with national broadcast and sponsorship partners as well as all internal media assets. He was instrumental in the December 2011 landmark nine-year extensions with CBS, Fox and NBC which continue the NFL's tradition on broadcast television through the 2022 season. Those new deals came just three months after he helped secure an eight-year agreement to keep Monday Night Football on ESPN until 2021. Most recently, in 2013 Bornstein orchestrated a multiyear, landmark partnership with Microsoft Corp. and an expanded multi-year extension to the NFL's partnership with Verizon Wireless.
Early in his NFL tenure, Bornstein led the November 2003 launch of NFL Network. The network was the most widely distributed sports network in the history of the industry when it launched and became the youngest network ever to win a Sports Emmy, after just 58 days on the air.
Under Bornstein's leadership, NFL Network completed distribution deals with Cablevision and Time Warner Cable in 2012. Currently in more than 72 million homes, NFL Network now has carriage agreements with each of the country's largest television providers. Previously, Bornstein spent 22 years at ESPN and ABC where in September 1990, he became ESPN's youngest president and CEO at age 38 and was instrumental in expanding ESPN's multiple platforms and assets. He was later elevated to President of ABC Sports (1996), Chairman & CEO of ESPN (1998), and President of ABC, Inc. (1999), where he was responsible for all media assets at ABC/Disney.
Bornstein takes part in numerous charitable activities and is the founder of the V Foundation, which has raised more than $125 million for cancer research in the name of late college basketball coach and ESPN analyst Jim Valvano. A native of Fairlawn, N.J. and a University of Wisconsin graduate, Bornstein resides in Los Angeles. |
