{"id":8580,"date":"2021-09-03T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T09:10:50","slug":"air-targets-sport-with-senior-bbc-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/air-targets-sport-with-senior-bbc-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Air targets sport with senior BBC hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air TV is gearing up for a push into sport with the hiring of senior BBC producer Mike Jackson.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Jackson joins straight from editing the corporation\u2019s Tokyo Olympics highlights show \u2013 it was his fifth games \u2013 and helming coverage\u00a0of the Boat Race.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Air&#8217;s Managing Director Matt Richards said: \u201cMike is one of the most creative executives in TV sport and we\u2019re looking forward to\u00a0developing new projects with him. \u00a0We\u2019ve had a push into sport in our sights for a long time and Mike\u2019s contacts book is legendary.\u201d<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Jackson, who has worked with talent like Clare Balding and Dan Walker on numerous sports projects, was the BBC\u2019s Golf Editor for\u00a0seven years, masterminding coverage of the Masters at Augusta, the Open and the BMW PGA championship from Wentworth.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>He also ran coverage of this year\u2019s Boat Race, the Rugby League Challenge Cup and the Six Nations rugby.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson will spearhead development at Air &#8211; which is shortlisted as Multichannel Production Company of the Year in the upcoming Broadcast Digital Awards &#8211; as well as guiding a new spin-off show for one of the indie\u2019s biggest series.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining a vibrant company that is expanding fast and being part of a push into an arena I know well. There are huge opportunities for indies in sport and very few companies fighting for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also looking forward to getting involved in taking some of Air TV\u2019s current shows into new areas and building on their amazing success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air TV is gearing up for a push into sport with the hiring of senior BBC producer Mike Jackson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airtv.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}