
About Eric Weinberger
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Sports television producer and digital audio-visual expert Eric Weinberger. He collaborates with other organizations to produce sports and entertainment content by owning Eric Weinberger Productions and Media Consulting. Additionally, he serves as the president of Bleav Network, a sports and entertainment video, and audio production company that has hosted over 100 athletes and produced more than 500 shows. In addition, he is Ring City USA’s co-founder and head of broadcast.
For more than 25 years, Weinberger has produced television shows and motion pictures. He has received four Sports Emmy Awards and established a reputation for professionalism and integrity uncommon in the media.
Productions by Eric Weinberger
EW Productions collaborates with other media and entertainment companies to launch new projects to help to scale and produce premium content. LiveXLive, which offers access to numerous radio stations and musical content, is one illustration. He has served as a production consultant for Bally Sports and Sinclair as another illustration. Additionally, he was a part of the group that started the Rally, which offers news from pop culture and sports.
Bleav
He oversees new business, talent acquisition, production, and distribution for Bleav (pronounced Believe). With a dedicated following, Bleav focuses on sports and popular culture topics. On numerous devices, you can stream its content. It can also be listened to as a podcast on favored platforms or social media.
USA Ring City
The NBC Sports Network and Twitch broadcast live weekly boxing matches that Ring City USA produces. In addition, Ring City provides news, analysis, and interviews.
Prior Employment
Media executive Eric Weinberger has had a successful career. He coordinated production for NFL Total Asset in 2003 at the NFL Network. He received a promotion to executive Producer at NFL Network in 2006. He oversaw Thursday Night Football and live studio programs like NFL Gameday & Redzone in that capacity. In addition, he was in charge of the programming’s content, personnel, and talent. Super Bowl Week, the NFL Scouting Combine, the NFL Red Carpet, and the NFL Draft were among the events he started and oversaw coverage.
Weinberger was the senior Producer of Fox Sports’ Best Damn Sports Show Period before joining the NFL Network. From September 2000 to May 2001, he also directed The Keith Olbermann Evening News.
After working at Fox Sports and NFL Network, he became executive director of HBO and president of the digital media company Bill Simmons Media Group. In these positions, he oversaw content distribution, staffing, and operations. The Game of Thrones follow-up program, After The Thrones, also had him on the executive producing team. In 2017, he also established a collaboration between Twitter and The Ringer for the Game of Thrones after-show, Talk The Thrones.
Skills
Weinberger brings a variety of talents to his role as a media executive. Three main categories best describe these abilities.
Possibility of Fostering an Innovative and Dynamic Team Environment
The innovative thinking Weinberger encourages communication among a diverse team of people with various personalities and ethnicities. He inspires groups to collaborate to complete each project with original and exceptional results. He believes inspiring others through passion, original thought, and fearless leadership is the key to creating growth opportunities.
Profiting from Expertise
Eric Weinberger is a monetizing expert due to his breadth of knowledge. His specialties are data science, decision theory, scalability, and an effective monetization strategy using a decision architecture.
Executive Media Skills
Weinberger has specialized in strategic operations for decades, focusing on live production events, storytelling, and asset monetization. Highlights of his career include:
Producing the NFL Draft
Producing NFL Total Access
Producing NFL Gameday Morning
Producing Thursday Night Football
Producing the Best Damn Sports Show
Producing Live zone at Rolling Loud Los Angeles
Being a significant member of the team that developed the NFL Network
Creating multiple assets for HBO and the Bill Simmons Media Group
Being the executive Producer for the HBO hit documentary: Andre, the Giant.
Executive Producer Weinberger is known for being a top-notch executive producer of documentaries for large screens and television. He is a master of content and monetization and is well-known in the sports media sector.
Awards
Weinberger acknowledges the outstanding teams he works with and the significant recognition his work has received. Weinberger is a four-time Sports Emmy Award winner including:
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement, 2013
Outstanding Short Feature, 2013
Outstanding New Approaches Sports Programming Short Format, 2014
Shorty Industry Award for Best Integration with Live Television, 2015
Education
He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature in 1994. The first institution of higher learning to be approved by the state Board of Regents was Union College, which was founded in 1795. Private liberal arts college describes it.
He attended The Taft Boarding School in Connecticut before enrolling in Union College. Taft is a coed, college-preparatory school with demanding academic standards.
Personal Eric and Alexandra Kreisler met while they were students at college. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their four kids.
Volunteering and charitable work
Eric Weinberger is passionate about youth sports and played hockey in college. He is a member of The California Golden Bears’ youth hockey team’s board of directors. One of the first youth hockey teams in California was the Golden Bears. It aims to develop young people’s hockey skills while instilling the virtues of cooperation, sportsmanship, and volunteerism. Young people are also taught about healthy eating and exercise habits.
He oversees the athletic teams his kids play on
He also serves on the Hav-A-Sole board of directors, which donates high-quality shoes to the homeless and other underprivileged individuals. More than 50,000 pairs of shoes have been distributed by the nonprofit organization to individuals in 40 cities since 2014. The organization gives out sneakers because many homeless people have health issues related to their footwear, and sneakers can offer the support and comfort needed.