Holly G. Burgess, Traffic Manager, NESN

Since 2006, Holly Burgess has served as NESN’s Traffic Manager.  She is responsible for creating formats for all in-house productions, specializing in live programming including Red Sox and Bruins coverage.  

During her time at NESN, the network has boasted a leading market position as one of the most popular media services in New England distributed to over 4.2 million homes in the region with national distribution through DirecTV and Dish Network. The definitive source for New England sports programming, NESN’s Emmy Award winning Red Sox coverage has been the highest rated baseball broadcast in the country for 6 consecutive years.

Burgess hails from Weymouth, Massachusetts getting her start in television at WLVI-TV in Boston as a temporary receptionist. She learned the traffic side of the business as a traffic assistant at WLVI where she eventually assumed the role of credit manager. Two years later, when she was only 26 years old, Burgess was promoted to traffic manager and spent the next five years in that role in Hartford, CT at Fox 61 WTIC and WB 20 WTXX.  

Burgess has been a member of the New England Chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) since 2007.  In 2009 she took on the role of sponsorship director and is serving in that roll on 2010 WICT New England board. She has also served as a mentor through the WICT mentoring program.