David Levy, as president of Turner Broadcasting Sales, oversees all sales strategy and operations across the Turner domestic portfolio of entertainment, animation and news networks and businesses. As president of Turner Sports, he oversees all sports acquisitions, programming, production, league relations and ad sales for sports programming airing on TBS and TNT.

Levy, who joined Turner Broadcasting in 1986, helped build the number-one sales organization in the television marketplace during his tenure as president of Turner Entertainment Ad Sales & Marketing. As president of Turner Sports, he has expanded Turner’s programming relationships with the NBA, NASCAR and Major League Baseball.

In January of 2008, Levy played an integral role in forming a groundbreaking partnership with the NBA that involves joint management of NBA TV, NBA.com, WNBA.com, NBADLeague.com and NBA League Pass. The operation, based out of TBS’s Atlanta production facility, takes advantage of Turner’s digital expertise and joins a robust portfolio of Turner Sports New Media assets that already includes NASCAR.com, PGA.com and PGATour.com.

In 2008, Levy was recognized as the top figure in the annual Mediaweek 50 list of the media industry’s most dynamic and influential executives and he also was named to Business Week’s “Power 100” list of the most influential people in sports.