Terry Hanson.
Terry has over thirty five years of experience in the field
of Sports Management and has been a resident of Charlotte, North
Carolina since 1991 when he joined Raycom, Inc. as President
of the Raycom Management Group. Since 1994 he has
owned and operated Hanson Enterprises—a Charlotte-based Sports and Entertainment
firm. Presently he is an on-air radio
personality for nationally syndicated John Boy and Billy Big Show.
Prior
to 1990, Hanson was the Vice President of Communications and Broadcasting at the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra, Florida
and was the President
of PGA Tour Productions. In these roles, he managed all public relations activities for three Tours,
negotiated all major
network and cable television contracts and successfully launched “Inside the PGA Tour” and
“Inside the PGA
Senior Tour” as seen today on network television. He held that post from 1984 until his move to Charlotte.
From 1978-1984 Hanson worked at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta where he first joined the company as Vice President
and General Manager of
Turner’s North American Soccer League (NASL) professional soccer franchise. Later he became
the first head of TBS
Sports. In the latter role he took a fledgling regional cable network carrying the Braves and the Hawks
into 14 states, helping
it to become a bonafide national cable network. He signed the first NCAA Football Cable contract,
negotiated Turner’s
entrance into the NBA, engineered the famed Sampson versus Ewing College Basketball game in the
early 80’s and contracted Louisville
and Kentucky for their first ever college basketball match-up. He won two Emmys and two
Cable ACE Awards for his work in Braves
Baseball, NCAA Football and other sports programming.
Hanson is a native of East St. Louis, Illinois and began his career at Benedictine
College in Atchison, Kansas, where he was
the head coach in both soccer and baseball, and he was named the National Soccer Coach
of the Year in 1974 by the NAIA.
Hanson also spent four summers as an associate Scout for two major league baseball teams, and five
seasons as a Senior
Executive in the North American Soccer League. He is a proud member of the Benedictine College Hall
of Fame.
He earned his bachelor's degree from St. Benedict's College and holds a Masters degree from Southeast Missouri
State University
in Cape Girardeau, MO, where he was an assistant baseball coach.
He and his wife Patti reside in
Charlotte, NC. Their youngest, Elizabeth, graduated from Appalachian State University, and is
a teacher in Saint Louis, and was married
to Tom Schelmbauer, a mechanical engineer, in November 2007. Son Joe, earned
a degree from Belmont Abbey College, and is in executive
search and is a Regional Vice-President for CSI Tech Inc. in
Charlotte. Daughter Amy has a Journalism degree from
the University of Alabama; she and her husband Bill Summers, a
physician, had the first grandchildren in the family when their
identical twin boys were born in October 1998, and a little girl was
born in October 2004. They also reside in Saint Louis.
