Scott Winer has more than a decade of experience as a producer, director, associate director, editor and camera operator.
He has directed live and live-to-tape productions since 2000, including Big East men's basketball, Big 12 volleyball, NYSPHSAA Football Championships and a variety of music performances, newscasts and sports studio shows.
In 2011, Winer joined KSHB-TV in Kansas City, serving as a production technician, co-producer and director for the station's two-hour holiday music special Sounds of the Holiday (2011-12) and as associate director and web producer for the station's morning entertainment show, Kansas City Live (2012).
In 2008, Winer directed the live feed for The Dole Institute of Politics presents Neutral Ground, a courtroom-style discussion hosted by Bill Kurtis that premiered on PBS affiliate KTWU-TV. Winer joined the Carrier Dome's in-house production crew, DomeTV, in 2003 as a director, associate director, replay and camera operator. From 2003 to 2004, he worked on Syracuse football and men's basketball, New York high school football and soccer.
He has created and produced a variety of short and long-form programs, winning a Telly Award and Davey Award for the 2005 variety show On'CUSE. Winer won the 2007 KAB Award for best undergraduate entertainment program for the sports interview special, KU Q&A. In high school, he received two technical achievement honors from the Foundation of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for producing and directing high school basketball, using a flypack he devised and constructed.
Winer has been a freelance camera operator for sports and entertainment since 2008. His credits include the NBA, Major League Baseball, NHL, Fed Cup tennis, Major League Soccer, SEC football, Big 12 football, Big 12 men's and women's basketball, Ultra Music Festival, college hockey, Div. I college baseball, Cotton's 24 Hour Runway Show, stock car racing and the Indoor Football League; high school football, basketball, baseball and softball. He's worked on broadcasts for ABC Sports, ESPN, ESPN2, NBC Sports Network, CBS Sports Network, ESPNU, Fox Sports Net, Tennis Channel, Fox College Sports, Comcast SportsNet, TSN, Rogers SportsNet One and others.
He worked as remote production support for CBS Sports for 10 years, assisting on the network's coverage of the NFL, college basketball and football, tennis and thoroughbred racing. As an intern in the CBS Sports graphics department in 2007, he worked on projects for the NFL on CBS, NCAA, PGA Tour and other sports properties. For five years, he helped develop in-game highlight packages for NFL and college basketball broadcasts, including the 2007 AFC Championship and three NCAA Men's Basketball Tournaments (2005, 2008, 2009).
Winer is a 2008 graduate of The University of Kansas. He was born in Atlanta and currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri, and Wellington, Florida.