Badgers Media – Live Sports and Event Production

About

Badgers Media provides consulting services in live sports and entertainment production, large-scale

operations and project management, sports programming, vendor relationships, event

marketing/promotion strategy, deal structuring and negotiations, TV and event programming, talent

management as well as event coordination.

The company was founded in 2017 by David Itskowitch, a native New Yorker and a graduate of the

University of Wisconsin, who has spent over 20 years working in sports. Prior to founding Badgers

Media, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Boxing for Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports. Before joining

Roc Nation, he worked for more than six years as the Chief Operating Officer of Los Angeles based

Golden Boy Promotions, one of the world’s leading and most active boxing promoters founded by Ten-

Time and Six-Division World Champion Oscar De La Hoya. Prior to his tenure at Golden Boy, he was the

Vice President of New York based boxing promoter DiBella Entertainment (which he co-founded) for

seven years. Before that, he worked at HBO Sports for nearly four years. Over the course of his career,

he has been involved with the promotion of boxing events on five continents and overseen all aspects of

the organization of some of the biggest events in the history of the sport featuring the likes of Floyd

Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Canelo Alvarez and Bernard Hopkins

from venues such as Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, The MGM Grand Garden Arena and Staples Center.

Sporting Event Production

No matter where your ticket-holders are sitting, you want them to have the best seat in the house. They need to see, hear and feel the entire event. Badgers Media has expertise in directing large-scale, live, televised sporting events at a wide range of domestic venues and has experience working in arenas such as Barclays Center, Madison Square Garden, The Mandalay Bay Events Center, MGM Grand Garden Arena, Oracle Arena, SAP Center, Staples Center and Dignity Health Sports Park as well as venues across the globe such as Arena V.F.G. (Mexico), The Bell Centre (Canada), Etihad Stadium (The United Kingdom), Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum (Puerto Rico), Manchester Arena (The United Kingdom), Roberto Duran Arena (Panama) and The Smart Araneta Coliseum (The Philippines).

Live Event Production

With live production, there are no second chances…no “take two” opportunities to do it right. Success comes when you create an exclusive experience and provide the right environment in which some of life’s most incredible moments are showcased. There is a lot at stake…the right talent, venues, budgets, infrastructures, procedures and timelines. We offer nearly 20 years of proven success in ensuring the smooth transition of new event concepts from development through profitable production. At Badgers Media, we are privileged to be the live event production company of choice for clients who choose to put their outcomes in the hands of trusted, reliable experts.

Content Creation

At Badgers Media, we understand the value in turning live events into experiences beyond the time and date stamped on a ticket. Moments created during live events can endure through multiple media channels, helping to strengthen the brand of an athlete, team, performer or a corporation beyond the walls of a venue turning live event experiences into content that can build wareness, create influencers, deepen loyalties, and drive growth in future attendance. With nearly two decades of experience delivering content to networks such as BET, CBS, ESPN, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Networks, HDNET (now AXS), HBO, HBO Pay-Per-View, Showtime, Showtime Pay-Per-View, Telefutura (now Unimas) and Versus (now NBC Sports Network), as well as with a host of international networks, Badgers Media understands what it takes to bring an event from inside a venue and deliver it to people’s homes and multimedia devices all over the world.

Boxing Consulting Services

There is no business in sports as unique as boxing which truly is an island in of itself. Badgers Media has over two decades of hands-on experience in the boxing industry at all levels from non-televised club shows to pay-per-view televised mega-fights and provides consulting expertise in a wide range of areas including contract negotiations in all areas, fighter development, regulatory issues, venue selection, event ticketing/scaling, public relations oversight, event promotion, sponsorship fulfillment, television production / series development and general event logistics.

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