Cary Ian Glotzer

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CARY IAN GLOTZER

Cary Ian Glotzer is an American Entrepreneur, Broadcast and Digital Media Executive, Executive Producer and Content creator.

He is currently the CEO of Tupelo Raycom and RTM Media, both wholly-owned by Raycom Media

EARLY LIFE AND CAREER

Born and raised in New York, While in high school, Glotzer became an intern at NBC Sports, serving as a production assistant to Sports Broadcasters Bryant Gumbel and Mike Adele on NFL ’79 (eventually became NFL Live). Glotzer went on to attend the University of Arizona, then transferred to New York University, graduating from the Tisch School of the Arts in 1983.

While in college, Glotzer continued to work part-time at NBC Sports, working his way up from a graphics coordinator to a production associate, he had the responsibility of hiring freelance professionals on a weekly basis in the video highlights department, including loggers, production assistants, graphics assistants, typists, coordinators, script writers, video editors and highlights associate directors.

By the time Glotzer had graduated New York University, he worked on live broadcasts including NFL Football, College Basketball, Major League Baseball, Boxing, Ice Skating, the Seoul Olympics and Sumo Wrestling.  It was during the 1980's that Glotzer met the two men that he considers his mentors, Michael Weisman, then Executive Producer of NBC Sports, and John Filippelli, then Coordinating Producer of NFL Live pre-game show.

“John Filippelli and Michael Weisman are my mentors, both personally and in business. They always told me to go with my gut, stick with it and be confident. Don’t look back, but be smart. If something’s not going well, have the ability to switch gears, but be confident and go with your instincts. They taught me that.”

From 1980 through 1988 at NBC, Glotzer had many roles, affording him the opportunity to work with announcers like Bob Costas, Bill Macatee, Dick Enberg, Paul McGuire, Ahmad Rashad and Vin Scully. In 1988, he directed and produced the ten-minute opening for the Seoul Olympics which had multiple prime-time airings. He also helped produce two major projects in this timeframe, the first being an all-athlete version of We are the World, which included the top sport stars in the world. His other major project was a memorial tribute to Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney. Glotzer also worked as a segment producer on three Super Bowls.

In 1989, Glotzer left NBC, and at the age of 28, partnered with Select Media in NYC and created and sold a syndicated weekly sports and celebrity series called InSport. The show was hosted by Ahmad Rashad and Robin Swoboda, and aired in over 170 markets from 1990 to 1992. Glotzer then went on to work on a non-wrestling entertainment project called "BodyStars" for WWE.

In 1992, Glotzer was hired by Raycom Sports to jump start their entertainment division, working under the direction of founder Rick Ray. He produced the first-ever live coast to coast New Year’s Eve special titled New Year’s Eve Coast to Coast Live from Universal Studios Hollywood and Orlando. He also produced three specials about Elvis Presley, and the Holidays at Home Christmas music special with Mariah Carey, Aaron Neville and Martina McBride both for national syndication and cable. Ray was instrumental in teaching him the business side of the broadcasting industry.

Glotzer was hired by Sports Illustrated Television to produce the 1995 Sport Illustrated Swimsuit Issue primetime NBC special, shot in Bermuda and Costa Rica, and hosted by Super Model Vendela. This marked the first time that Sports Illustrated revealed their cover on the internet the night before the broadcast, which garnered over one million views.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked with ABC late-night and co-packaged and edited several episodes of their In Concert series, showcasing live performances from bands of the era.

Outside of television, Glotzer served as campaign manager for Tupelo, Mississippi County Supervisor (District 3) Charles R. Duke, from 1988-2008. Duke won five consecutive terms.

TUPELO-HONEY PRODUCTIONS

In 1997 He formed his first full-service production company, Tupelo-Honey Productions, That same year, he signed one his first and longest-standing clients, Major League Soccer, whose twenty-year plus relationship has yielded production of championship game highlight films along with live game coverage for franchises like Chicago Fire, Real Salt Lake, DC United, Houston Dynamo, and FC Dallas.

Over the years, Tupelo has produced content and programming for first tier broadcast and digital platforms including Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, NFL Network, HBO, BET, BigTen Network, YES, SNY, BounceTV, MTV, VH1, SPIKE, DirecTV, Food Network, MLB, CMT, ESPN, MSG, YouTube, Travel Channel and ESPN’s linear and digital networks.

Tupelo-Honey also shot hundreds of major music stars performances across all platforms, including Pay-Per-View concerts for artists like Chicago, Allman Brothers, Martina McBride, Hall and Oates, Barenaked Ladies, Bad Company and multiple music festivals. In 2000, Glotzer produced the series Thunder Box, which was the first-ever mix of boxing and live music, nationally syndicated to 50% of the US.

In 2000, Glotzer and Emmy-Award producer, Bill Bonnell co-produced ABC’s four-hour Super Bowl XXXIV pre-game show in Atlanta. John Filippelli oversaw the production for ABC Sports and years later eventually went on to become YES Network’s president of programming and production. Glotzer ended up packaging YES Network’s inaugural on-air show. (Preview Show).

From 2002-2005, Glotzer and Tupelo-Honey produced a number of music videos and live concerts for Universal music executive and legendary music video producer, Jeff Panzer. Those included productions for 98 degrees, Brian McKnight, Kem, Cash Money Millionaires and Lil Wayne.

Between 2005 and 2008, Tupelos other projects included;

·     Co-creating the Time Out NY on Demand channel with former HBO executives Eric Levin and John Ovrutsky, a VOD platform on Time Warner Cable. This joint venture between Time Out Magazine, City on Demand and Tupelo-Honey created over 300 pieces centered around NYC’s culinary world.

• Atlanta Underground’s live New Year’s Eve Concert, broadcast for eight years, featuring music stars like Miranda Lambert and Julianne Hough. Over 100,000 people attended in person each year.
• Producing over 200 original digital pieces for AT&T’s Blue Room, a joint venture between CBS radio and AT&T from 2005-2008.
• Country Music Awards Red Carpet shows for CMT.
• Mets Weekly, SNY’s signature series that ran from 2006-2009.
• CenterStage, YES Network’s in studio/live audience interview series hosted by New York Yankees announcer Michael Kay since 2007.
• Executive Producer and packager for three live Daytime Emmy Red Carpet shows shot from Radio City Music Hall in New York City,
• and The Kodak center in Hollywood
• Produced the pre-game concert and opening for the 2007 NHL All-Star Game in Dallas, Texas.
• Packager for David Beckham's Soccer USA series, broadcast both domestic and international.

Glotzer sold Tupelo-Honey to Sports Capital Partners (owned by David Checketts, Michael McCarthy, Ken Munoz and Chris Bevilaqua) in 2007. Sports Capital Partners become SCP Worldwide in 2005.

MY-TUPELO ENTERTAINMENT

With the purchase of Tupelo-Honey, and seeing the incredible success of reality TV, Glotzer orchestrated SCP to start a joint venture with veteran television executive, Michael Yudin. Together, they formed a new venture called MY-Tupelo Entertainment.

In 2008, the Travel Channel greenlite MY-Tupelo’s series Ghost Adventures, which has been running for 14 tv seasons and has delivered some of the highest rated series shows on the Travel Channel. MY-Tupelo Entertainment also produced series for Discovery, CMT and Nat Geo.

TUPELO-HONEY RAYCOM

In 2012, Glotzer coordinated the sale of Tupelo-Honey to Raycom Media, Since the sale, Tupelo has expanded its business to include: (partial list)

• Pre-Season game coverage and programming for the New York Giants, Los Angeles Chargers, New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons.
• Premier Boxing Champions events aired on NBC, FOX, CBS, Spike and BounceTV in afternoon and primetime windows.
• Professional Fighters League (formerly World Series of Fighting) on NBC.
• Three Country Music Television specials Kid Rock Live Bike Week From Sturgis produced at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally including Kid Rock in Concert.
• LA Rising live fundraising concert for Baton Rouge flood victims, co-starring Harry Connick, Jr and Randy Jackson, helping to raise over one million dollars for the American Red Cross.
• Holidays at Home Jewel Christmas special on CBS.

• Co-produce live concert streams on Twitter including artist like Imagine Dragons and Luke Bryan.
• Branded digital content for ESPN, Hearst, Conde Nast, Jaguar, Under Armour, Land Rover, Ford, Chase, and Dow Jones.
• The Basketball Tournament on ESPN linear and digital networks, with a prize purse of two million dollars for winning teams.
• College football and basketball live games for ESPN, CBS and NBC.
• Trumpet Awards for BounceTV.
• Production services for the Westminster Kennel Club’s Masters Agility Championship on FOX, and Best in Breed Prelims on NatGeo.
• First ever YouTube 2016 Presidential Election coverage live from YouTube in NYC.
• Production of Rugby broadcasts for NBC, BT and Premiership Rugby.
• Production company for One Night for One Drop 2018 special partnered with Jewel and Cirque du Soleil shot at the Mandalay in Vegas
• Production company for 8 seasons for Arena Football League.

RTM MEDIA

In late 2014, Glozter helped facilitate Raycom Media purchase of RTM Productions, becoming it's CEO, It was most recently renamed RTM Studios., specializing in automotive "how-to" programming under the PowerNation brand, airing and streaming it's programming on Spike (now Paramount), NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Facebook and several OTT Platforms and its own online portals. The company also provides programming for the Raycom station group with its archive and current series.

WEBSTREAM PRODUCTIONS

In 2015, Glotzer identified Webstream Productions as a strategic acquisition for Raycom Media. The company, run by founder John Servizzi and veteran executive Greg Weitekamp are based in Indianapolis, Indiana, produces and packages over 750 events per year on broadcast, streaming and in-venue platforms for Turner Sports/NCAA.com, ESPN, Horizon League, Missouri Valley, Big South and Ohio Valley Conferences.and ESPN digital platform E3

In January of 2016, Glotzer and Raycom Media merged Webstream Productions and Tupelo-Honey Raycom to formally create Tupelo Raycom. Glotzer serves as CEO of the combined entity with Servizzi and Weitekamp managing the day to day operations of the business.  

AWARDS

National Emmy Award – NBC Sports for Seoul Olympics.

PERSONAL LIFE

Glotzer is married to Traci Duke and has three children, son Cole, and twin girls Payton and Camryn.  Traci Duke is a former VP at HBO in the DBS division. The family resides in Nashville.

He is huge supporter in the fight against breast cancer, is a life-long NY sports fan and has spent over 30 years either living or vacationing in Quogue in the Hamptons, N.Y.

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