{"id":548617,"date":"2026-03-18T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:28:19","slug":"sales-exec-howell-leaves-fanduel-sports-network-for-bravesvision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548617\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales exec Howell leaves FanDuel Sports Network for BravesVision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">As Main Street Sports Group moves to an almost certain wind-down, the Braves have hired away the company\u2019s Atlanta-based VP\/Sales BRANDON HOWELL to be VP\/Media Sales for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/24\/braves-announce-in-house-television-network-bravesvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/24\/braves-announce-in-house-television-network-bravesvision\/\">the team\u2019s channel BravesVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Howell had spent the past 25 years working in different iterations of the FanDuel Sports Network, first as an account executive at Fox Sports Net, then as a VP and general sales manager at Fox Sports South, Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast and finally in his most recent role at FanDuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">With the Braves, Howell is expected to lead ad sales for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/25\/schiller-bravesvision-network-represents-defining-moment-for-braves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/25\/schiller-bravesvision-network-represents-defining-moment-for-braves\/\">franchise\u2019s new broadcast home<\/a> after the team severed ties with FanDuel Sports Network this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Main Street Sports Group moves to an almost certain wind-down, the Braves have hired away the company\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,1871,591,85],"class_list":["post-548617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-leadership","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}