Jason Bennett Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Host-Commentator for WNBL broadcast coverage & the Australian national team (Opals).

Melbourne, Australia

Creative services - Content Creation, Executive Producer, Producer, Writer, Director for Television, Radio & Online digital.On-camera services - Host, Commentator, On-Location Reporter.Developing content suites & tailored concepts.Documentary & digital storytelling.Media & Marketing Consultancy.Event Hosting & Announcing - clients include: * Carlton, Essendon & Western Bulldogs football clubs* Deakin Melbourne Boomers WNBL club* Cricket Australia* Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation

Melbourne, Australia

Host & play-by-play commentator for Seven's AFL, AFLW & VFL broadcasts, plus Australian Open & Fed Cup tennis.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Globalisation of AIRCAST live broadcast technology:* Investor & customer strategy* Marketing strategy & planning* Business Development

Create, produce & host a digital series which supports & connects Aussies around the world with inspirational stories from sport, business & entertainment.Content includes a weekly vodcast & podcast (which features a News Wrap plus in-depth interviews with Australian athletes, businesspeople & entertainers excelling around the globe) plus regular 'nimble' social content reacting to matters of significance as they happen.As the Executive Producer, I oversee a team of 7 working remotely on content, social media & commercial around Australia.AUSSIES ABROAD was a TV documentary series I created, produced & hosted for ESPN from 2009-14. During the lockdown of 2020, we refashioned the concept to suit the modern digital world & provide entertainment to others locked down at home.

Melbourne, Australia

Ideation & production of creative content projects for AFL Media, with projects including:* THE SHEEDY FILES - The documentary of Kevin Sheedy's life story.* DEAKIN UNIVERSITY INTERNSHIPS - Creation & management of a strategic partnership between the AFL & Deakin University, enabling Deakin students to gain real-life work opportunities with AFL Media in areas such as Outside Broadcast, Digital Web Series production & Post-Production.* AFLW 'MAKE YOUR MARK' HOSTPLUS SERIES - Short-form 3-part digital storytelling series, created & produced for Host Plus.* THE BEST OF THE BEST - Wrote, voiced & produced a weekly digital highlights program tailored specifically for the AFL's international markets.

Writing & presenting sports news & in-studio segments each morning on Triple M Melbourne's breakfast show 'The Hot Breakfast' with Eddie McGuire, Mick Molloy & Luke Darcy.

Embedded w/CA Digital team throughout summer of 2015/16 to create, produce & host DIGITAL CONTENT for CA & Optus - daily short form, special features & longer-form storytelling. HOST/COMMENTATOR - Women's Big Bash League. GROUND ANNOUNCER - Women's ODI Series.

Weekly international sports content across a broad range of global sports.

Connecticut, Usa

* Creator, Host, Writer, Director & Executive Producer of documentary feature series AUSSIES ABROAD which profiles & showcases Australian athletes competing in a wide range of sports & locations around the world. Aired on ESPN broadcast & digital channels in markets around the world, with episodes also averaging around 400,000 Monthly Minutes Viewed globally on our YouTube channel.* Executive Producer of SEARCH 4 HURT - a fitness/lifestyle reality series that premiered in 2013.* Host, SPORTSCENTER Australia/NZ (30 min daily sports news bulletin).* Host & Producer of global events such as the Super Bowl, Hawaiian IRONMAN, Cricket World Cup, Indy 500, March Madness & BCS College Football Championship coverage for ESPN Australia/NZ.

Melbourne, Australia

Hosted, wrote & produced TV, Radio & online content for a range of clients, including:AFL, Telstra BigPond, Triple M/Austereo, SEN Radio, ABC Radio.

Melbourne, Australia

Creative Services consultancy that provided media & marketing services to a range of clients, including:News Limited, FOXTEL, Telstra BigPond, Golf Australia & Sydney Swans.

Melbourne, Australia

Created & managed Commercial Operations & Marketing department for Australia's national governing body for golf.Created an in-house marketing agency.Developed & implemented marketing strategies, including the re-branding & re-launching of the Men's & Women's AUSTRALIAN OPENS in 2006 - gate receipts up 1000% on the previous year.

Melbourne, Australia

Hosted & Commentated more than 150 AFL (Australian Rules Football) matches.Created, wrote, produced & hosted HEADLINERS - an award-winning 23-part documentary series in 2006.Created, wrote, produced & hosted a wide range of ancillary AFL programs - live & recorded, studio-based & on-location.Host - FOX Footy News (nightly half-hour news bulletin).Supervising Producer - AFL Broadcasts in 2003.Designed FOXTEL's Digital Interactive Sports Template.Staff writer - Program outlines, On-air content, Media releases, Magazine articles.

Play-by-play AFL (Australian Rules Football) Commentator/Host, Producer & On-air Statistician.

Melbourne, Australia

AFL game preparation & research for THE FOOTY SHOW on Nine Network.Wrote weekly columns for AFL FOOTBALL RECORD.AFL game preparation & research for McGuire Media.

Melbourne, Australia

Private marketing consultancy specialising in Sports Marketing, Direct Marketing & Event Management.Clients included: Rebel Sport, Village Roadshow, Edge Clothing, The Australian Wine Club, Strathfield Car Radios & Sanity Music.

Melbourne, Australia

Australia's largest golf retailer - during my tenure, they had a network of 16 stores with annual turnover of more than $20 million.Designed & implemented the organisation’s mainstream media and direct marketing strategies, promotional campaigns and advertising activities, as well as management and control of Marketing expenditures and budgets.The role also expanded to encompass Retail Operations duties - overseeing the daily running of stores and areas of operation such as personnel, staff reward & recognition, staff recruitment, selection & assessment, and merchandising duties.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance, Marketing

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