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Steve Winkler
Steve Winkler (born September 20, 1952) is the Founder and President of Winkler Productions, an American sports production company based in Lake St. Louis, Missouri.

Founded in 2009, Winkler Productions is a full-service production company specializing in sports programming for broadcast and digital distribution. Winkler Productions produces programming for professional, collegiate and amateur sports properties across the country, including NFL and NCAA footbal l, NCAA basketball, professional bowling, MMA and more.

With access to a nationwide network of respected production professionals, Winkler Production’s services range from project management/coordination, talent procurement, mobile TV facilities, transmission, crewing, and editing/post production. Productions air on all major national and regional TV networks and online platforms, including top broadcasting networks such as ESPN and CBS Sports.

Business Career
After graduating from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, Steve Winkler joined the media department of DMB&B Advertising (1978-1982), a global advertising agency based in St. Louis, Missouri. While at DMB&B, Winkler worked with the firm’s client Anheuser-Busch, which led to Winkler being hired in-house at Anheuser-Busch in 1982.

Winkler worked for Anheuser-Busch for 26 years in various roles (1982-2008). He began as an Account Executive with Busch Creative Services and then moved to the A-B Sales Promotion Department before becoming an Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Corporate Media. From there, he moved into brand management for various Anheuser-Busch product brands including Budweiser and Michelob.

In 1998, Winkler began his most senior role as Director of Bud Sports Productions , the division of marketing responsible for producing programming associated with Anheuser-Busch’s various beer brands. Content from Bud Sports Productions predominantly aired on ESPN and other major national and regional television networks. These productions included coverage of a wide variety of national sporting events, including St. Louis Cardinals baseball games, preliminary competitions for the United States Olympics Committee, and Professional Bull Riders events, as well as unique sports like figure skating, snowboarding and water skiing, wrestling, boxing, LPGA Golf, and more.

As Director of Bud Sports Productions, Steve Winkler also oversaw the production of an internal wholesaler TV network called Busch Satellite Network  (BSN).

When Anheuser-Busch was acquired by InBev in December 2008 and Bud Sports was set to disband, Steve Winkler formed Winkler Productions. Tapping into the vast knowledge and experience in sports media production he had acquired, early clients included the St. Louis Cardinals, the (formerly) St. Louis Rams, and the United States Bowling Congress.

Winkler Productions continues to be a premier national production company producing content for professional, collegiate and amateur sports rights holders.