FOX News Media Promotes Scott Wilder to Executive Vice President of Production and Operations
04 Gennaio 2024 - 4:54PM
Business Wire
FOX News Media has promoted Scott Wilder to Executive Vice
President of Production and Operations, announced CEO Suzanne
Scott. In this capacity, Wilder will oversee all technical, field
and production operations of FOX News Media’s special events and
breaking news coverage, including the 2024 presidential
election.
In making the announcement, Ms. Scott said, “For the past 27
years, Scott has been an integral part of the FOX News Media
family. His extraordinary work has helped transform our field
operations and events coverage, ensuring our platforms continue to
deliver best in class coverage from around the world.”
Wilder added, “I am truly honored and humbled to take on this
role after developing an established Field Engineering team and
look forward to enhancing our production for this year’s election
coverage and beyond.”
A FOX News Channel (FNC) original, Wilder joined the network at
its inception in 1996 as a field photographer. Since then, he has
helped innovate and enhance all aspects of FNC’s breaking news and
events programming, including all the network’s election coverage
over nearly three decades. In his previous role as senior vice
president of field production and operations, Wilder oversaw the
first two Republican presidential primary debates of the 2024
cycle. The first, co-moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum
in Milwaukee last August, delivered 13 million viewers and was the
highest-rated non-sports telecast in cable for the year. In
September, he oversaw the production surrounding FOX Business
Network’s debate moderated by Dana Perino and Stuart Varney in Simi
Valley, California, which drew nearly 10 million viewers.
Additionally, in November 2023, he spearheaded Sean Hannity’s The
Great Red vs. Blue State Debate: Newsom vs. DeSantis in Alpharetta,
Georgia which pulled in more than 5 million viewers making it not
only the highest-rated program of the night, but also out-rating
the third non-Fox primary debate which took place the following
week.
In 2022, Wilder led the network’s midterm election coverage,
including several town halls and election night special
programming, which was the most watched in all of television.
Throughout his tenure with the network, he has overseen the
production and operations for all major political events, including
international presidential diplomacy trips and numerous G8 summits.
He has also helped create the signature look for FOX Nation’s
annual Patriot Awards, which just held its fifth celebration at The
Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Notably he oversaw the
production of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in 2022 as well as
President Biden’s inauguration in 2021 along with special live
coverage of his first joint address to congress.
Wilder also helped engineer more than 40 remote studios across
the country as the pandemic mandated a global shutdown in 2020,
ensuring FOX News Media platforms continued to deliver news and
information to millions of viewers nationwide. Throughout the
pandemic, Wilder led all special events coverage, from the
presidential campaign trail and the conventions to numerous
COVID-19 related town halls, including with former President Donald
Trump and his task force, to the social justice protests following
the death of George Floyd and the memorial services honoring civil
rights icon Rep. John Lewis and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, all while maintaining social distancing and health safety
protocols. As a result, FOX News Channel’s breaking news coverage
helped deliver the highest-rated year in television history,
outpacing broadcast networks for the first time in history during
the third quarter of that year.
In addition to overseeing all of FOX News Media events coverage,
Wilder has also helped innovate and advance the network’s technical
and field operations units. In 2019, he was elevated to vice
president of field operations where he transformed the production
team, implementing a collaborative field production unit that
created news-specific environments to broadcast around the world.
From 2017-2019, he served as director of field and aerial
operations where he helped integrate new technologies into network
coverage, including innovative drone footage that was used across
breaking news and live events coverage. Previously, he served as
ENG field operations supervisor from 2007-2017 and prior to that
was the field photographer and coordinator of ENG operations.
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business
Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books,
the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News
International and the free ad-supported television service FOX
Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has
also been the most watched television news channel for nearly 22
years, while FBN is the top business channel on cable. Owned by Fox
Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each
month.
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