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Fox Sports adds two execs to ad sales team

By Mollie Cahillane 4.18.2024

Fox Sports is expanding its ad sales team ahead of upfront season, adding Jen Durda and Kathy Lydon to the company as VPs, effective immediately.

Durda spent 14 years at Warner Bros. Discovery/Turner Sports, most recently as VP/Ad Sales. She will lead all sales efforts out of the company’s Detroit office and will report to Fox Corp. EVP/Ad Sales David Miller.

Lydon will head up all sales efforts for the Big Ten Network, and previously led a multimedia sales team at ESPN and a CPG category vertical team for Disney. She will report to Fox Sports EVP/Ad Sales Mark Evans and work out of the BTN Chicago office.

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