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Fergus Garber
Broadcast Operations & Sports Production Consultant
Over 40 years in UK and international sports broadcasting, including more than a decade as Director of Production and Broadcast Operations for BT Sport and TNT Sports. I've delivered UEFA Champions League finals, Olympic Games coverage, channel launches and major facility builds — and now bring that operational and commercial experience to broadcasters, rights holders and production companies on a consultancy, advisory and interim basis.
1982 — Now
Eight feeds, one career: forty-plus years of production and broadcast operations across the UK and Europe.
Consulting Services
Six ways to bring this experience into your operation.
Broadcast Operations Consultant
Operational leadership for broadcast facilities, channels and live production workflows.
- Director of Production & Broadcast Operations, BT Sport (2012–2023) — an £85m network P&L and 26,000 hours to transmission per year.
- Led the £28m build of BT Sport's production facility and the operational migration to WBD's Chiswick Park & Stockley Park studios.
Sports Production Consultant
Production strategy and delivery across football, rugby, cricket and multi-sport portfolios.
- 10 years producing all UEFA Club competitions for BT Sport / TNT Sports, including finals at Cardiff and Wembley.
- Launched new strands for TNT Sports — Autumn Nations Series Rugby, cricket and FA Cup — and built Sport 1 (Netherlands) from scratch in 10 weeks.
Major Events Production & Operations Advisor
Planning and delivering broadcast operations for the biggest events on the calendar.
- Delivered the 2024 UEFA Champions League final at Wembley and 24 fully produced Eurosport feeds from the Paris Olympics.
- Executive Producer for Sport 1's Torino Winter Olympics coverage; launched a pop-up HD World Cup channel.
Interim Director of Production
Fixed-term leadership of production and operations teams — available to step in fast.
- A decade as Director of Production & Broadcast Operations, BT Sport, then Head of Production through TNT's channel launch and the Olympics.
- 12-month contract as Head of Production for Sport 1 (Netherlands)'s channel launch — full ownership from day one.
Sustainable Production Consultant
Embedding sustainability targets and processes into broadcast production.
- Chair, BAFTA Albert Sports Working Group — raising sustainability standards across UK sports broadcasting.
- BT Sport Sustainability Lead — architect of BT Sport's sustainability strategy and targets, carried into TNT Sports.
RFP Responses — Strategy, Writing, Budgeting, Resourcing
Writing, negotiating and resourcing winning broadcast and production tenders.
- Authored BT Sport's £75m production partner tender and ran the full selection process across the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and WTA.
- Member of the BT 'Bid Team' behind the £700m Premier League acquisition and the £800m / £1.2bn UEFA Champions League rights deal.
Track Record
Industry Engagement
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Available for consultancy, advisory and interim leadership engagements — on a project, retained or fixed-term basis, in the UK and internationally.