Gareth Hughes Sports Producer With a Human Touch Dies at 41

Both of Mr. Hughes’ teases received Emmy nominations. Gareth Christian Hughes was born on August 28, 1979, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and spent a large portion of his childhood there.

When he was just 11 months old, testicular cancer was discovered in him. His parents are University of Vermont professors.

His father, John Hughes, teaches geology; his mother, Susan (Boedeker) Hughes, teaches accounting.

Mr. Hughes is survived by his daughter Belle Halladay, son Wylie, and sister Rebecca Behrmann in addition to his wife.

Mr. Hughes worked as a pastry chef, bread baker, beer vendor at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

And a focus-group office coordinator in Boston after graduating from Skidmore College, where he majored in English.

Before transitioning into TV sports in 2006 with the New England Patriots, where he worked on two TV programmes and an online show.

Mr Hughes Hired by CBS in 2009

In the following twelve years after being employed by CBS in 2009, he worked on live events, teases, documentaries, and “60 Minutes Sports” on Showtime, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS.

He and Mr. Burke launched the “Just Not Sports” podcast in 2015, where athletes discussed their interests outside of their professions.

In 2016, they started a different project in which they collaborated with others to make a four-minute video.

In which the sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro listened to men that Mr. Hughes and Mr. Burke knew read to the women derogatory things that other men had written about them on Twitter.

CBS Sports Producer Gareth Hughes Has Died

Gareth Hughes, a producer for CBS Sports, passed unexpectedly on July 30 in Manhattan. He was 41. Hughes, who won eight Emmys in total, had bile duct cancer.

Among other sporting events, Hughes worked on the NFL, the NCAA men’s basketball championship, The Masters golf tournament, and the Army-Navy football game.

Whether it was a show, a story, or a technically challenging production, “he had this unusual capacity to see the absolute seedling of an idea.

Through to the end product,” CBS Sports feature producer Alanna Campbell told The New York Times.

Conclusion

Hughes was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and spent the most of his formative years there. When he was 11 months old, the Times reported that he received a testicular cancer diagnosis.

He went to Skidmore College and began his television career working for the New England Patriots.