About

CineSport is an innovative web video syndication company that offers sports highlights on-line and on-demand. CineSport provides easy to watch video packages where and when you want to see them. News and information sites receive localized reports from their home cities that are perfectly targeted to their users.

CineSport LLC was launched in the fall of 2007 by former National Basketball Association executive Gregg Winik to produce and syndicate online video sports highlights and news to web sites of blue chip local media companies across the United States and Canada.

CineSport is syndicated to 100 web sites including over 30 newspaper sites such as the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to name just a few. CineSport has one or more distribution partners in 17 of the nation’s top 30 DMA’s as well as a presence in 9 of the nation’s top 10 DMA’s.

Management Team

 

Gregg Winik – Chief Executive Officer
Formerly NBA Entertainment’s Executive Vice President and Executive Producer, Winik left the NBA in 2006 after 16 years to launch CineSport LLC. Winik, a multi-Emmy award winner, oversaw the NBA’s content across all media outlets. In addition to overseeing programming, production, and marketing, he also supervised the NBA’s programming partnerships with NBC, ABC, TNT and ESPN. Winik also presided over NBA TV, the league’s 24-hour television network and the NBA’s broadband offerings.

Michael Dresner – Chief Operating Officer
Dresner has spent over twenty years in media and entertainment business development, sales and marketing. Most recently he was COO of MusicToGo, a software development company that distributes entrainment applications to media and marketing companies. Prior to that he created and led Digitas’ media & entertainment practice where he developed and activated marketing strategies on behalf of Fortune 500 media and marketing companies. Prior to joining Digitas, Michael worked as Executive Vice President, Business Development for Marvel Entertainment Co. and at the NBA where he spent seven years in a variety of capacities including Vice President International Television, and Vice President Media and Program Sales.

Larry Weitzman – Chief Content Officer / Chief of Operations
Weitzman oversees the development of CineSport’s varied content offerings as well as the development and daily operation of its distribution and monetization platforms.  He is a multiple Emmy Award winning director and producer and held positions at NBA Entertainment such as Vice President of Multimedia Production and Programming, and Head of Original Programming and Development. He also played a leadership role in building the NBA’s digital assets including creating its first multimedia unit, overseeing cross-platform programming initiatives, and running its digital integration efforts.

Ben Todres – Chief Financial Officer
Todres has spent over 18 years in the commercial banking and corporate finance world. From 2005 until early in 2008 when he joined CineSport, Todres was a senior banker in Merrill Lynch Capital’s media finance group arranging financing commitments ranging in size from $15 million to $200 million in support of private equity firms LBO activity. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Todres spent 15 years in the media finance teams at BNP Paribas, Bank of New York Mellon and JP Morgan Chase where he originated, underwrote and completed in excess of $25 billion in financing arrangements in the TV and radio broadcasting, cable television, newspaper publishing, B2B publishing, theatre exhibition, satellite, and other media segments.

Scott Weinstock – Chief Creative Officer
Scott is responsible for all creative presentation for CineSport and CineStars as well as all marketing and promotional initiatives. After beginning his career at the legendary advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, Scott has been a key member in the successful launches of Inside Edition, CNBC, InSport, NBA Inside Stuff and multiple MTV special programming. At the NBA Scott served as VP, Executive Creative Director where he helmed the league’s advertising and marketing campaigns contributing to all of the NBA/WNBA’s creative branding efforts. In 2005, Scott joined the NHL to create and manage their branding and advertising campaigns. Scott joined CineSport prior to the launch in 2007.

Andrew Coy Lombardi – Executive Producer
After working at NBA Entertainment for 9 years as Producer of the Advertising Group, Lombardi spent 2006 & 2007 at Tupelo-Honey Productions as lead producer for SNY’s Mets Weekly and Kids Clubhouse, of which the latter won back-to-back New York Emmy Awards for Best Children¹s series. In 2008, Lombardi joined the Winik Media group to help launch CineSport and as Supervising Producer oversees production of shows and features for Major League Baseball that air on ESPN and FoxSports under the CineSport umbrella.

Noah Coslov – CineSport Host and Managing Editor
Coslov is responsible for CineSport’s news and feature coverage in addition to his hosting responsibilities. He is CineSport’s liason between affiliates’ editorial staff creating video features and two-way interviews using easy to implement web and laptop technology. Coslov previously covered the national sports scene as a host and reporter for CBS College Sports, NBA TV and most recently for Major League Baseball Advanced Media. His professional career started in Reading, PA where he spent 2 seasons as a radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies AA affiliate and continued by becoming the voice of NBA TV Broadband and host on NBA TV before developing original content for NBA Radio on Sirius then landing as a host on MLB.com. He is also currently a play-by-play announcer for CBS College Sports.

Sil Scaglione – Managing Director, Publisher Partnerships
Sil develops and manages all of CineSport’s partnerships with its Publishers.  Scaglione has held senior management positions for both digital and broadcast media organizations. He has a track record of success in starting, rebuilding and leading organizations to increased profitability in a variety of situations. Prior to joining Cinesport, Scaglione served as the CMO of TuneGenie/MusicToGo Media, a software development company that distributes entertainment applications to media companies. There he was responsible for the creation and implementation of their distribution, marketing and revenue optimization strategies. Earlier he spent ten years as VP/General Manager of several CBS and Clear Channel Communications Radio stations. As a broadcast executive, he earned a reputation as a start-up and turn-around specialist and developed an expertise in operating and monetizing media operations.

Jon Latzer – Digital Ad Sales
Jon sells & manages the growing advertising business for CineSport.  Having held Senior Ad Sales and Management positions with Clear Channel, CBS and Comcast, Jon spent two and half years building the conventional Ad sales for the Rovi Corporation, a software technology company in the Interactive TV space. With an expertise in delivering results for client campaigns, Jon has earned the reputation as a client oriented Ad Sales executive.