Bally Sports Names Kendall Burgess Technical Operations VP

Bally Sports, a division of Sinclair Broadcast Group, today promoted Kendall Burgess to vice president of technical operations for the regional sports networks (RSNs).

He will report to Mike Connelly, executive vice president, production, Bally Sports, and will oversee technical operations for live events and original programming across the company’s 19 RSNs.

“Kendall has developed a wealth of knowledge and production expertise across her 22-year career in the RSN industry,” Connelly said. “She has a proven track record of pushing our productions forward and we could not be more excited for her to step into this expanded leadership position and work with all of our RSNs.”

Burgess previously was the senior director of operations for Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast. She has been with the Atlanta-based RSNs for more than 22 years where she began as a production assistant.

Burgess holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Henry Grady College of Journalism with an emphasis in telecommunication arts at the University of Georgia.