Geoffrey S. Mason is one of sports television’s most accomplished and honored production executives. A 24-time Emmy Award winner, he has more than 55 years of domestic and international broadcast experience.

Prior to his career at ESPN, Mason was executive producer at ABC Sports. There, his credits included seven Olympic Games (Summer and Winter); Monday Night Football (Super Bowl XXV); Major League Baseball (World Series 1989); U.S. Open/PGA/British Open Golf; Triple Crown Thoroughbred Racing; Indianapolis 500; ABC’s Wide World of Sports; and the Tour de France.

In 2003, Mason oversaw the launch of the NFL Network in Culver City, Calif.

In 2010, he was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame: https://www.sportsvideo.org/halloffame/production/geoffrey-mason/

He is presently the executive producer and CEO of his own production company, Mainstay Communications. Until recently, he served as senior content consultant/Olympics to Discovery-Eurosport in Paris, and is presently on the Board of Directors Advisory Committee (and a production consultant) at Program Productions, Inc. – North America’s leading provider of live event labor in the sports broadcasting industry.

Mason served for 17 years on the Board of Directors at the Betty Ford Center, and he is a founding Board member of the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, and the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA.

Mason graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology in 1963. He and his wife Chris reside in the Naples, FL area.

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