Larry Tiscornia

Background

About Larry Tiscornia

Larry Tiscornia spent 21 years at Major League Soccer/Soccer United Marketing as Vice President of Broadcasting at the Commissioners office in New York City. During this time of tremendous growth for MLS and the sport of soccer in North America, Larry had the privilege to handle many incredible responsibilities. Larry was in charge of the league's entire broadcast infrastructure workflows for all MLS live remote productions and broadcast operations that distributed the leagues content globally. In this role, Larry was the primary production contact for all the leagues media rights holders from ESPN, NBC Sports, Fox Sports and Univision in the United States to Bell Media, IMG, Sky Sports, DAZN and more throughout the world, ensuring that MLS/SUM’s over broadcast productions yearly were presented in the most professional manner to its constantly growing audience. Operationally, under Larry's leadership at MLS, the league installed a league-wide data and video fiber network that connected all 26 MLS venues with the league office in New York City and their production facility in South Florida (VISTA Worldlink); The creation and implementation of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) where MLS was at the forefront of this initiative that has become standard in the sport; Digitized the league video archives, moving from tape based to cloud based workflows; and developed and implemented broadcast standards for all current and future MLS venues throughout North America (25+ venues). On the event side, Larry has overseen the broadcast operations and productions for many significant soccer events in the United States since including 20 MLS Cups and 20 MLS All Star games, the National Soccer Hall of Fame game, MLS SuperDrafts, The FIFA World Cup and World Cup qualifiers, FC Barcelona Tours, MLS Gala awards and Supporters Summits, as well as in 2019 created the plan, budget and implementation for the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup, which for the first time in its 100 plus year history the entire event was broadcast and available on ESPN and ESPN plus (83 Matches). Before his distinguished career at MLS, Larry who also serves on the advisory board with the Sports Video Group, started in the sports broadcasting industry at ABC Sports and USA Network, working on such prestigious events such as the BCS National Championship, ABC Sports Saturday College Football Game of the Week, ABC's Wide World of Sports, The Belmont Stakes, The US Open and French Open Tennis tournaments and The Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden.