David Hill (born May 21, 1946) is an Australian-born American executive producer who served as the president of Fox Sports from 1993 to 2000,[1] and as a senior EVP of 21st Century Fox for twenty-four years.
[2] After starting out at the Sydney Daily Telegraph and then working at Nine Network, he was hired by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox in 1988 to help launch Sky Television and then Eurosport.
He then led the startup of Fox Sports and NFL on Fox in 1993 when the network won National Football League TV broadcasting rights, and introduced many new concepts including the FoxBox (a form of score bug), the 1st & Ten virtual first down line and making the broadcasts more entertaining.
[3] He left the Fox Group in June 2015 to open his own production company that focused on live TV events.
In 2017 he received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame.