The issue includes features on sports docs, virtual fans, teleporting athletes, Watch Together apps, diversity in sports production and lots more. Issue #6 of Broadcast Sport magazine (Winter 2020) is out now. The magazine was paused after our previous issue came out at the beginning of March 2020 just before lockdown hit the country. This […]
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Podcast: Sebastian Gray, co-founder, Dugout
Episode #12 of the Broadcast Tech Talks podcast series shines the spotlight on innovative archive football content specialist Dugout. Sebastian Gray, co-founder and SVP of football content platform Dugout talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about what the company does, how it does it, and the growth in demand for previously undiscovered archive football […]
Producers hail idea-first sports commissioning
Heather Fallon, of Broadcast Intelligence, reports on sports programme commissioning insights from the Broadcast Sport Content Summit Speaking at last week’s Broadcast Sport Content Summit, producers Dale Templar and Jordan Laird discussed how they got their sports programmes commissioned. Laird is series director of A View From The Terrace, which is produced by Studio Something […]
Broadcast Sport magazine #5 out now
Editor Jake Bickerton gives a preview of the latest print edition of Broadcast Sport. You can read the whole magazine here. Welcome to the first issue of Broadcast Sport for 2020. It feels like the year has barely started, yet we’ve already seen plenty of action in the Six Nations; witnessed Liverpool running away with […]
Premier League reveals plan to kick off OTT streaming service
The Premier League is aiming to stream its matches on a Netflix-style OTT platform, new chief executive Richard Masters has revealed. The league is looking to bypass its usual rights deals to sell coverage directly to consumers – as predicted by tech and media analyst Paolo Pescatore in Broadcast Sport last year. Masters divulged that […]
BBC launches pop-up FA Cup channel on iPlayer
The channel will show two full days of FA Cup content, including all live games this weekend The BBC has created a pop-up FA Cup channel on BBC iPlayer centred around this weekend’s fourth round action, as well as showing archived FA Cup content. The VoD channel will show two full days of FA Cup […]
Curious Films re-teams with West Ham Women for BBC3
Follow-up to Britain’s Youngest Football Boss will place more focus on the players Curious Films will return to West Ham United FC Women football team for a follow-up series to its BBC3 access documentary Britain’s Youngest Football Boss. The indie will switch its focus to the players of the Hammers’ women’s football team in the 6 x […]
SailGP set to unveil its first global marketing campaign
The fast-paced sailing championship has teamed up with GBH and Knucklehead SailGP is kicking off its first global marketing campaign later this month with a spot called It’s Not What You Think, which aims to highlight that “SailGP isn’t sailing in the traditional sense”. The campaign (pictured below), which launches a month in advance of SailGP’s […]
Discovery acquires Golf Channel Latin America
Broadcaster adds to golf portfolio with pay-TV acquisition Discovery has bolstered its golf media business in Latin America with the acquisition of pay-service Golf Channel Latin America. The channel was bought from Simple Networks LLC and Fornaluz Productions, S.A., an affiliate of Inversiones Bahia. The acquisition adds to Discovery’s global portfolio that includes digital platform GOLFTV, […]
Broadcast Sport launches Content Summit
New event focuses on best practice for creating sports content across live sports, documentaries and studio-based shows Broadcast Sport is running a full day Content Creation Summit at Dock 10 studios at MediaCityUK on Thursday, 5 March 2020. The event focuses on different areas of sports production, providing a platform for sports content producers […]
Amazon Prime to show live tennis from the first ATP Cup
Matches from the new tennis tournament will be streamed live on Amazon Prime Video Amazon Prime Video will show all live tennis from the first ATP Cup, taking place Friday 3 January – Sunday 12 January. The new tournament comes as part of an five-year existing deal Amazon Prime has in place with the ATP […]
VIDEO: State of the Nation (Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum 2019)
The full 35-minute opening speaker panel session The opening panel discussion from the Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum 2019 held at BT Sport studio on 14 November 2019. To find out more about the annual event, head over to http://broadcasttech.co.uk/sports-tech-innovation/ Chaired by sports presenter Gavin Ramjaun, the speaker panel is: Jamie Hindhaugh, COO, BT Sport Gordon […]
Broadcast Sport Tech Innovation Forum 2019: Programme revealed
All the details for Broadcast Sport’s free-to-attend all day event at BT Sport studios on Thursday (14 November) Broadcast Sport is bringing the very popular Tech Innovation Forum back to the vibrant atmosphere of BT Sport’s studios in Stratford, London, this Thursday (14 November). It’s the second year for the event, and this year we’ve gone even […]
Australia’s Optus Sport signs three-year Women’s Super League deal
Exclusive Barclays FA Women’s Super League deal starts this weekend Australia’s Optus Sport has picked up the exclusive live rights for the Barclays FA Women’s Super League, the top-tier of English women’s football. The deal is for the next three years and covers around 50 live matches a season. It begins the weekend (Sunday 17 […]
JD Sports launches esports competition
Inaugural JDX event will hold finals at Salford’s Dock10 studios in August Retailer JD Sports is pushing into esports, with the launch of a new esports competition, JDX. Qualifier stages for the inaugural JDX event will be held at Westfield Stratford City on 26th July and intu Trafford Centre, Manchester on 31st July. The competition […]
Report reveals the astonishing rise of esports
The huge growth of esports is revealed in Futuresource’s forthcoming report Esports are very quickly rivalling some conventional sports in terms of viewing figures and prize money. Facts revealed by Carl Hibbert, associate director of research company Futuresource Consulting during the DTG Summit 2019 this morning, show how far esports have come in so little […]