Nancy Lee is a Canadian broadcast sports journalist and producer. Formerly associated with

CBC Sports CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. The CBC's sports programming primarily airs on CBC Television, CBCSports.ca, and CBC Radio One. (The CBC's French-languag ...

, where she was appointed executive director in 2000, she resigned in 2006 to become the director of broadcast services for the

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in Vancouver. Lee first joined the CBC in 1987, becoming the first woman to work as a full-time national sports reporter on CBC Radio. She later became a producer of ''

The Inside Track ''The Inside Track'' was a Canadian radio series, which formerly aired on CBC Radio One. A documentary and interview series exploring social and cultural issues in the world of sports, the program was hosted by Mark Lee, Mary Hynes and Robin B ...

'', and was head of the radio network's sports division from 1994 to 1996. She then became deputy head of

CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...

sports from 1996 to 2000. In 2002, Lee became the first woman to lead a North American broadcast network's negotiating team for the acquisition of a top sports property, when the network renegotiated its contract with the National Hockey League.

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