Gareth Hughes, Sports Producer With a Human Touch, Dies at 41

Mr. Hughes was nominated for Emmys for each teases.

“He had this uncommon capacity to see absolutely the seedling of an concept by way of to the ultimate product,” stated Alanna Campbell, a function producer at CBS Sports activities, “whether or not it was a present, a narrative or a technically complicated shoot.”

Gareth Christian Hughes was born on Aug. 28, 1979, in Lebanon, N.H., and grew up primarily in Oxford, Ohio. He was identified with testicular most cancers when he was 11 months previous.

His mother and father are professors on the College of Vermont. His mom, Susan (Boedeker) Hughes, teaches accounting; his father, John, teaches geology. Along with them and his spouse, Mr. Hughes is survived by his daughter, Belle Halladay; his son, Wylie; and his sister, Rebecca Behrmann.

After graduating from Skidmore Faculty, the place he majored in English, Mr. Hughes held numerous jobs, together with beer vendor at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., and focus-group workplace coordinator in Boston, earlier than he moved into TV sports activities in 2006 with the New England Patriots, engaged on two TV applications and a web-based present.

He was employed by CBS in 2009 and over the subsequent dozen years labored on dwell occasions, teases and documentaries and on “60 Minutes Sports activities” on Showtime, part of ViacomCBS.

In 2015, he and Mr. Burke began a podcast, “Simply Not Sports activities,” on which sports activities figures talked about their passions away from their jobs. They launched into a distinct enterprise in 2016, becoming a member of with others in creating a four-minute video through which the sports activities journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro listened as males Mr. Burke and Mr. Hughes knew learn to the ladies vicious issues that different males had written about them on Twitter.

The video went viral and gained a Peabody Award for being a “transferring assault on misogynistic troll tradition.”