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League Office · Broadcast & Operations
Billy Gahagan named Vice President of Operations — CoFL broadcast is now ours to build
Billy Gahagan · Vice President of Operations
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The Continental Football League has named Billy Gahagan its Vice President of Operations. He brings a rare combination to the role — a football lifer who has also spent three decades working on the biggest live sports broadcasts on the planet.
An eight-time Sports Emmy Award winner with NBC Olympics, Gahagan began at the network in 1996 as a Production Services Assistant at the Atlanta Games. In 2000 he moved to Venue Engineering as Equipment Supervisor and has worked every Summer and Winter Olympics NBC broadcast since — 15 Olympic Games in all. Add three World Cups with Telemundo and current work with NBC Golf in the same capacity. When a global broadcast has to hit air on time, in a country it just landed in, with thousands of pieces of gear moving through a single warehouse, Gahagan is one of the people making that happen.
That operational standard is what he brings to the CoFL. Setting up a football league across multiple markets, in a summer window, with new ownership groups and new venues, is a logistics problem before it is anything else. Gahagan has spent a career solving harder ones.
The football side runs just as deep. A four-year letterman in football and baseball at Kansas Wesleyan, three-time All-KCAC, member of the Coyotes' 1990s All-Decade Football Team. Semi-pro offensive line in the SCFL. Assistant football and baseball posts at Seabreeze, Spruce Creek, and Father Lopez High Schools in the Daytona Beach area, plus a run as Athletic Director at Seabreeze — the ops job before the ops job. A 2003 nominee for the AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year.
The football-broadcast résumé maps most directly to what the CoFL is building. Gahagan has been on-air as a high school football play-by-play announcer and analyst for Double D Productions and on CSPAN2's Channel 98; a color commentator and sideline analyst on WNDB 1150 AM and KSAL 1150 AM; and a co-host of Volusia's High School Huddle on WDSC Channel 15. His high school football play-by-play took first place in the 1993 Kansas Association of Broadcasters medium-market awards.
What this means for the League: Season One ran on borrowed pipes. Season Two runs on our own. Gahagan owns broadcast strategy top to bottom — production, distribution, and how our clubs get seen. He is already reviewing ways to dramatically improve CoFL broadcast quality ahead of 2027.
Full bio and photo at coflfootball.com/league-office.
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