Primary Job Title Senior Political Advisor Primary Organization Governor of West Virginia
Location United States, North America Gender Male
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Bray Cary is a Senior Political Advisor as well as a US-based media and sports marketing entrepreneur. In 1984, he founded Creative Sports, a sports & marketing production company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Creative Sports was acquired by ESPN in 1994. Cary is credited as the architect of the growth of NASCAR through a $2.4B deal with
FOX and NBC in 1999 and a historic Internet contract between NASCAR and Turner/AOL in 2000. In 2001, Cary, Marty Becker, and other partners raised $100 million from a group local investors to form West Virginia Media Holdings to serve as roll-up vehicle for the acquisition of various West Virginia based media properties. In November 2015, WVMH announced the sale of four of its television stations (WTRF in Wheeling, WVNS in Beckley, WBOY in Clarksburg, WOWK in Charleston & Huntington) to Nexstar, a Texas-based media company, for $118 million. He is also a past member of the West Virginia University Foundation Board, the West Virginia University Board of Advisors, and recently resigned from the EQT Corporation Board of Director after serving since 2008 (an energy corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange).
