The SportBusiness Podcast
The SportBusiness Podcast
Podcast Description
The SportBusiness Podcast gets you up to speed with the stories powering the global sports industry. Our sector-leading newsroom brings you exclusive news, detailed analysis and intelligent opinions that help you and your business grow.Expert reporters cover the industry’s burning topics across media rights, sponsorship, event hosting, sports tech and more, cutting through the noise of LinkedIn commentators and getting you informed, fast.SportBusiness is the global sports industry’s leading provider of news, data and analysis. Our work helps the world’s biggest sports organisations make better decisions every day. Want to join them? Visit SportBusiness.com or email [email protected] to find out more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This podcast focuses on key themes within the sports industry, including media rights, sponsorship deals, event hosting, and sports technology, with episodes featuring in-depth discussions on the International Olympic Committee's leadership changes and new multi-million dollar broadcasting agreements.

The SportBusiness Podcast gets you up to speed with the stories powering the global sports industry. Our sector-leading newsroom brings you exclusive news, detailed analysis and intelligent opinions that help you and your business grow.
Expert reporters cover the industry’s burning topics across media rights, sponsorship, event hosting, sports tech and more, cutting through the noise of LinkedIn commentators and getting you informed, fast.
SportBusiness is the global sports industry’s leading provider of news, data and analysis. Our work helps the world’s biggest sports organisations make better decisions every day.
Want to join them? Visit SportBusiness.com or email [email protected] to find out more.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the wake of that Manchester City ruling, Jonathan Rest and Martin Ross are back on TheSportBusiness Podcast to discuss the industry’s headline issues and go deep on media rights in a major market.
- THE NEWSROOM: SportBusiness Sponsorship EditorBen Cronin joins to talk about the Emirati elephant in the room. Plus, Infront nets ITTF business at a testing time for table tennis and the scale of the LIV threat on DP World Tour media rights returns is revealed.
- INSIDE THE DEAL: Frank Dunne is back to decipher the pay-TV sector in sub-Saharan Africa after Canal+’s Uefa club rights deal. Now the owner of MultiChoice, is it set for a market monopoly or can a mystery streamer stir new competition?
- AOB: Bookmakers betting on a political Brazilian legislation U-turn, Wigan gets a deadly new sponsor and juggling AI tech to generate sold-out crowds at empty venues.
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Co-hosts: Jonathan Rest, Martin Ross
Contributors: Ben Cronin, Frank Dunne
Editor: Gwen Gourvellec
Sources:
- City inflated sponsorship with ‘sham’ contracts
- Etihad considers legal action against EPL
- BeIN’s Sen succeeds Nivelle at Infront Pan-Asia
- Infront nets global WTT sponsorship remit
- TV rights drop swells PGA Tour’s European Tour sum
- (PODCAST) In Da Red Zone: Unpacking losses at LIV, European Tour and DAZN
- Canal+ power shows in sub-Saharan Uefa deal
- SuperSport lands Afcon, more pay-TV deals coming
- Brazilian football sets up talks on shock betting ban
- One final bump on the long road to centralisation?
- Q4 production tender to kick off Liga Portugal sales
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