Super Bowl LVI Marks Another Touchdown for David Bolton

When the Los Angeles Rams take the field against the Cincinnati Bengals at the $5.5 billion SoFi Stadium in the Big Orange on Sunday, Santa Barbara producer David Bolton, director of the California Missions Foundation, will be handling the live international Spanish language broadcast for Fox Sports for the seventh consecutive year.

David’s company, Cultural Global Media, will produce and coordinate the seven-hour live coverage of Super Bowl LVI in the 70,240-seat locale, with his efforts and cameras seen by millions of viewers from Mexico to Argentina.

“It’s an honor to again be selected by the NFL,” says David, whose 30-year live sports career includes more than 1,000 productions, including professional and international soccer, the World Cup, regular season NFL, the NFC divisional and championships, professional lacrosse, college sports, and championship boxing.

“There are so many details we must coordinate for the Super Bowl coverage that I am extremely appreciative of having such a professional team of production specialists to work with in Los Angeles,” adds David, a graduate of Montecito Union School and Santa Barbara High.

“This group has been working together for 15 years and I am very thankful for their efforts show after show. Many of them have travelled with me to multiple Super Bowls. It has been fun.”

For Cultural Global Media it will be three days on the former Hollywood Park Racetrack site including set-up, rehearsals, and the big game. The days are long, sometimes 16 hours or more. It will end some three hours after the final whistle of the game.

David credits his teacher at MUS in the early ‘70s with sparking his interest in learning Spanish. “She was originally from Costa Rica and began to teach us the language in the fourth grade. I was fascinated by it and wanted to learn more.”

For a Good Cause

Sage Publishing has donated $36 million to a foundation established by the Thousand Oaks company’s owner, Montecito uber-philanthropist Sara Miller McCune.

The donation has come in two parts – $35 million at the end of 2021 to fully fund the foundation’s endowment, and another $1 million towards its operations for this year.

Sara, 80, established the McCune Foundation in 1990 with her late husband and fellow Sage co-founder, George McCune. Its giving is focused on grants to public benefit organizations and community service in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, with an emphasis on social justice causes.

The $36 million from Sage is described as “a game changer” for the foundation. At the end of 2019, the last year for which tax documents are publicly available, the foundation had assets of about $1.7 million, and in recent years has distributed around $1 million annually in charitable donations.

Another Flip

TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, 64, and actress wife Portia de Rossi , 49, are set to make a substantial profit on their Montecito estate after putting it up for sale for $13.9 million, just four months after purchasing the property for $12 million.

The tony twosome bought the 3,980 square-foot single-story, three-bedroom, four-bath estate in an off-market deal.

The house sits on between three and four acres of land and has 4,700 square feet of living space between the main house and a separate studio building that can be used as a guest suite.