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The Broadcast Sport PodcastWhat's the score with the podcast industry? ft. Stak COO Luke MooreSenior reporter Max Miller speaks to Stak COO, and co-host of the Football Ramble and The Luke & Pete Show, Luke Moore, about the current state of the podcast industry and where it could go next.
Moore also gives his advice on how to create successful podcasts, how Stak approaches the market, and what the BBC's move to commercialise its audio content could mean for independent companies.
2024-05-3127 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastEngland Netball – Growing an audience through free-to-air, D2C and social contentEngland Netball chief commercial officer Mark Foster talks to Broadcast Sport editorial director Jake Bickerton about the federations new broadcast rights deal with Sky Sports and the BBC, which sees one live match a week across the regular season of the Netball Super League (NSL) streamed on BBC iPlayer and on the BBC Sport website and app.
Another live match will be broadcast on Sky Sports’s YouTube channel. The season opener, semi-finals and grand final will all be shown both on linear TV through Sky Sports.
Matches will also be made available on the gl...2024-04-2520 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow the Paris 2024 Olympics will be broadcast, with OBS' Yiannis ExarchosThis episode of the Broadcast Sport Podcast sees Broadcast Sport senior reporter Max Miller speak to Olympic Broadcasting Services CEO Yiannis Exarchos about the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Exarchos reveals how the host broadcaster will be promoting women’s sport, as well as women within sport broadcasting, in an effort to reflect the gender parity on the field for 2024. Broadcast Sport also spoke to Mary Byrne, editor-in-chief of Olympics.com and the Olympics Channel about how the IOC’s content will be aim to do the same last month.
Among OBS’ initiatives is boosting the number o...2024-04-2336 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow to produce electric racing series - Formula E, Extreme E and E1 SeriesLawrence Duffy, founder and CEO of Aurora Media Worldworld, talks to Broadcast Sport editorial director Jake Bickerton about the production of electric racing events. Aurora produces Formula E, Extreme E and now also the E1 electric boat racing series. We talk about the different approaches to covering electric racing, the need to make production sustainable and the future of electric motor sports.
2024-04-1240 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow The Hundred Draft was turned into a digital first productionFor this edition of the Broadcast Sport Podcast, senior reporter Max Miller spoke with ECB head of digital and content for The Hundred, Rob Johnson, Little Dot strategy director for sport and brand, Fiona Wood, and Dizplai commercial director Peter Cassidy.
The trio all played key roles in turning The Hundred’s 2024 digital draft into a digital first production. The draft took place at The Shard on 20 March, streaming live to YouTube and TikTok and drawing over 100,000 viewers.
The ECB and Little Dot reveal the strategy and production that went into the move to digital, in wh...2024-04-0529 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastLorton CEO Julian Bird on financing sport documentariesThis edition of the Broadcast Sport Podcast sees senior reporter Max Miller speak to Lorton Entertainment CEO and founder Julian Bird about upcoming boxing docuseries Stable and the wider sport documentary industry.
Stable will launch on BBC1 and iPlayer from Saturday 30 March, and follows the McGuigan family boxing gym, where Shane McGuigan, son of International Boxing Hall of Famer Barry McGuigan, trains the fighters alongside assistant coach Josh Pritchard, and Shane’s brother, Jake McGuigan, manages the majority of the eight boxers.
In addition, Bird speaks about how Lorton approaches financing its documentaries, having come from...2024-03-2828 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastThe EBU on its new D2C streaming serviceEBU executive director of sport, Glen Killane, speaks to the Broadcast Sport Podcast about its new D2C streaming service, Eurovision Sport. He discusses how plans for service were created, its aims for viewership and other areas, and strategy to achieve these. He also outlines how the platform hopes to put gender equality at its core, with bringing audiences to women’s sport a major aim for the organisation, and how the EBU and service will work alongside the organisation’s member broadcasters.
The EBU launched a D2C streaming service earlier this month, Eurovision Sport. The platf...2024-02-2020 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastThe present & future of behind-the-scenes docuseriesBroadcast Sport senior reporter Max Miller speaks to Box To Box head of sport and factual Warren Smith about how to create behind-the-scenes docuseries, and the future of the format.
Box To Box is the company behind some of the most well known series of this type, including F1: Drive To Survive, golf's Full Swing, tennis' Break Point, and many more across various streaming services.
2024-01-2627 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastSue Anstiss MBE: Helping shape a better future for women’s sportSue Anstiss has been a pioneer in women’s sport for over 30 years. She’s an author, podcast host and entrepreneur, who was a founding trustee of the Women’s Sport Trust and co-founder of the Women’s Sport Collective.
Sue is now CEO of Fearless Women, which drives positive change for women’s sport, having received an MBE for her services to women’s sport in 2018.
This episode of the Broadcast Sport Podcast is a recording of the keynote speech at the Broadcast Sport Summit 2023, and focuses on Sue’s role in helping to grow women’s s...2023-12-1924 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastWhat’s next for digital content in 2024?In this episode of the Broadcast Sport Podcast, senior reporter Max Miller speaks to IMG's senior vice president and managing director of digital, Lewis Wiltshire, about its recently released Digital Trends Report 2024. Among the predictions for the next 12 months is the rise of women's sport, the growth of personalised content, AI's impact on digital content, and plenty more.
This is the sixth iteration of the digital trends report, which features insights and analysis from IMG’s global team of digital experts (formerly known as Seven League). This time round it also ranks the 10 most important third-party media pl...2023-12-1337 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastNew Sports: How to Reach a Global AudienceBuilding up a fan base for a new sport means navigating a complex maze of options to successfully distribute both live sports and on-demand insights and documentary content around the sport.
In each global territory, the content mix includes going D2C, utilising dedicated streaming sports platforms, free-to-air TV, pay-TV, social media platforms, YouTube, Twitch, fan-created content, and so on.
There's no right or wrong way to do this, but certain combinations of rights deals bring proven results. This is demonstrated in this podcast episode, which features content specialists at new sports federations explaining how...2023-12-0527 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow we made Made Of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby’s Fiercest RivalryThis week’s edition of the Broadcast Sport Podcast sees Made Of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby’s Fiercest Rivalry’s co-directors Nick Mattingly and Emma Everitt speak to senior reporter Max Miller about how they made the BBC Storyville documentary.
Available on BBC iPlayer now, the film examines the rivalry between the England and France teams at the recent Wheelchair Rugby World Cup, and delves into debates around the sport and society. It was produced by Noah Media Group.
Mattingly and Everitt explain how the film was created, and navigating production around two sides that were in fierce...2023-11-2922 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastGlobal Sport Leaders Interview: Scott Young, Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, EuropeAn in-depth interview with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports head Scott Young, by sports presenter Rachel Stringer, recorded at the sold-out Broadcast Sport Summit, held on 1 November 2023 at Lord's cricket ground.
The Global Sport Leaders sessions are a series of one-to-one fireside chats with European broadcast sports leaders.
In each session we drill down on business issues, rights deals, how they are responding to the changing market, innovations in fan engagement, the biggest success stories of the last year and the key challenges and opportunities of the year ahead.
In this insightful interview, Scott Y...2023-11-1533 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow we made The Brighton MiracleDirector Max Mannix and producer Nick Wood speak to Broadcast Sport's Max Miller about how they made The Brighton Miracle, a film about Japan's famous victory over South Africa at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Conversation topics include getting talent on board, the use of dramatisations, and how to appeal to audiences outside of sport.
2023-11-0929 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastThe past and future growth of the NFL in the UKBroadcast Sport speaks to broadcaster and writer Nat Coombs, who has worked extensively on the NFL and is currently host of NFL show The Nat Coombs Podcast. Coombs delves into how the game has grown in the UK, how best to approach growing a sport outside of its domestic market, and what could be done to continue the NFL's success.
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The Broadcast Sport PodcastSocial Media Insight: Sports on SnapchatKahlen Macaulay, senior manager, international sports partnerships at Snapchat joins the Broadcast Sport podcast to provide invaluable insight into sports content opportunities on Snapchat. The visual messaging social media app is now 12 years old and focuses on bringing people together, providing "intimate connections with real friends". It reaches a user base of 400m people every day, the majority being Gen Z and Millennial audiences, with 90% of 13-24 year olds reached in 20+ countries. Snapchat's sports partnerships therefore serve the next generation of sports fans, through "communication, camera and content". It's a very closed network – there are no followers, likes or pu...2023-10-0428 min
Coach's Corner with Heck and KingPrevagen and RehabWe're back at Bar Louie for season two of the live show! Catch us on Mondays at 7 eastern on broadcastsport.net
Linktr.ee/INDcoachscorner2023-08-301h 05The Broadcast Sport PodcastHow to make a YouTube hitBubble Agency MD Louise Wells speaks to Atlas Film director/produder Samuel Davies, Cut Media CCO Scott Marshall, and LadBible Group senior creative producer for sport originals Connor Suckling about how to make a YouTube hit.
The group cover how to work with athletes and brands, creating new formats, how to get viewers to your videos, and more.
2023-06-2826 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastSky Sports’ head of cricket on its packed 2023 summerThis summer sees both men's and women's Ashes taking place over June and July, with The Hundred still to come in August. Sky Sports' head of cricket and NFL, Bryan Henderson, spoke to the Broadcast Sport Podcast about its plans for the competitions.
The broadcaster is bringing a number of tech innovations to its broadcasts, as well as producing both Ashes series with net zero carbon emissions and a focus on promoting women in sports broadcast. In addition, Henderson speaks about the current situation with The Hundred, amid reports that the ECB is considering the short-form competition's...2023-06-1323 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow to make a great sport podcastRecorded at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit 2023 at dock10 Studios, this episode features BBC Radio Five Live commissioning editor Richard Maddock, Crowd Network creative director Tom Fordyce, IMG Productions head of audio Steve Tebb, and Voiceworks Sport managing director Sophie Hind speaking to Broadcast Sport senior reporter Max Miller about how to plan and produce a great sport podcast.
The conversation covers the podmaking process from start to finish, including creating a format, reaching your audience, building on a successful product, and more.
2023-04-1729 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow the FIH and LTA took their social content to the next levelThe International Hockey Federation and Lawn Tennis Association have had a successful 12 months across their social media channels, growing followers, views, and the former even substantially growing subscribers to its direct-to-consumer streaming platform, Watch.Hockey.
Speaking at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit, held at dock10, Salford on 23 March, Paddy Sloane, director at Curveball Digital, and Katie Matthews, partnerships director at Little Dot Studios, explain to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton how they approached their campaigns with the FIH and LTA respectively.
2023-04-0325 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastAFTV and DR Sports co-founder Robbie Lyle on social content and how broadcasters can reach fansAFTV and DR Sports co-founder Robbie Lyle speaks to Broadcast Sport about social content, how broadcasters could better reach fans, and the latest technology he is looking to bring in with his Global Fan Network company.
Hear about how Lyle began with AFTV, how he's grown GFN beyond football, and what broadcasters could learn from fan-created content. He also reveals what he thinks will be next for online content, with innovations such as the metaverse and near-live highlights among his tips for the future.
2023-03-2035 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastTop Tips For Sport On Social MediaRecorded at the Broadcast Sport Leaders Forum 2022, which took place on 1 November at BFI Southbank, Little Dot Studios director of sport Robbie Spargo and Chelsea head of publishing Simon Meehan speak to presenter Alison Bender about how they approach social media.
Topics include the strategies for different platforms, working within a budget, the types of content that work for sport organisations and clubs, and more.
Chelsea boasts millions of followers across its social channels, and Little Dot works with the likes of West Ham, the ECB, the LTA, and many more on social content.
2023-03-0636 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow to create a YouTube channel from scratchSocial Bull co-founders Scott Lavell and Jack Beetlestone speak to Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about how to create a YouTube channel from the ground up, and their experience doing so for snooker legend Stephen Hendry.
Social Bull has overseen the successful launch of Stephen Hendry’s Cue Tips, which sees the snooker legend giving advice on playing the game, interviewing fellow snooker stars, and performing various challenges related to the sport. As well as Hendry, the likes of Steven Davis, Mark Williams, Judd Trump and other major snooker players have taken part in content.
Af...2023-02-0827 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow to produce the big live sport eventsA session from the Broadcast Sport Leaders Forum, which took place at the BFI Southbank on 1 November 2022. Aurora managing director Lawrence Duffy and Whisper managing director Mark Cole speak to Base head of marketing Emily Pryor about how they approach producing large live sport events such as the Women's Euros, Formula E, and more.
2023-01-1732 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastSport broadcasting in 2022 and beyondA session from the Broadcast Sport Leaders Forum, which took place at the BFI Southbank on 1 November 2022. Channel 4 head of sport Pete Andrews, Sky Sports commercial director Yath Gangakumaran, and BBC Sport head of radio and digital Ben Gallop discuss the most significant issues impacting sports broadcasting in 2022 and beyond. The landscape is changing, with traditional broadcasters facing increased competition from streaming platforms who could battle it out to secure the biggest, most popular sports rights. Meanwhile, the forthcoming joint venture between Discovery and BT Sport creates a huge new sports broadcaster with existing rights across a plethora of...2022-12-2046 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastGary Lineker discusses his ’How To Win A World Cup’ podcast for AudibleGary Lineker spoke to Broadcast Sport editorial director Jake Bickerton about his new Audible Original podcast series, How To Win A World Cup. The 14-part podcast sees Gary Lineker and Cesc Fàbregas explore what it takes to win the biggest prize in the game. The podcast including entertaining chat between Lineker (who has never won a World Cup) and Fàbregas (who has!) about the importance of having a football genius in your side, a top manager, the best striker, the ultimate game plan, even just a huge slice of luck or some other elusive, magic ingredient. In th...2022-11-1413 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastBest practice for sports rights holder podcastsBroadcast Sport reporter Max Miller talks to Sophie Hind, managing director of audio production house, Voiceworks Sport about how to maximise the potential of podcasts for sports rights holders.
Voiceworks Sport works with rights holders, brands, athletes, and more on podcasts, and Hind reveals how podcasts can assist smaller and larger rights holders both with fan engagement and creating a new revenue stream. The benefits of audio for an overall digital strategy are also outlined.
Listen to find out Hinds recommendations, including authenticity, behind-the-scenes access, and differentiation from other formats, with differing strategies necessary depending o...2022-10-1321 min
574 Sports ReportKnox/Laville Week 1 Recap and Broadcast scheduleIn this episode i preview the week 1 games for Knox and Laville. I also talk about our broadcast schedule for broadcastsport.net
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andrew-klawiter/support2022-08-2607 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastCollective Media Group unveils new sports division, launches Brazil 2002 docClaire McArdle, co-CEO of Collective Media Group talks to Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about the company's newly-launched sports production wing, Collective Media Sport.
The division is behind the highlights programming for golf's The Legends Tour and forthcoming feature doc, Brazil 2002: The Real Story, which tells the story of the team who were victorious at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Collective Media Group launched last year, having been set up by two former execs from ViacomCBS - McArdle and Rebecca Knight. It focuses factual and entertainment content, with its premium sport content produced through Collective Media...2022-07-2520 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastJason Mohammed and Nathan Blake on how to nurture underrepresented talentTV and radio presenter Jason Mohammed (Match of the Day, Final Score) and TV presenter and ex-footballer Nathan Blake talk to Broadcast Sport reported Max Miller about their new production company Jams and Mr B. The company produces sports-focused podcasts (including the Cardiff City podcast A Bit of Swazz), TV and radio productions, and has big ambitions to become a major player in the market. Fundamental to the company's ethos is to create lasting opportunities for underrepresented talent to build a career in sports production. As part of this, Jams and Mr B is setting up a bursary with S...2022-05-2317 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow we made the GAZZA documentarySampson Collins, the director of the two-hour documentary GAZZA, talks to Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about the creative process involved in making the film.
GAZZA has been made entirely from archive and home video footage. The film uses this extensively researched and sequenced archive material to meticulously examine Paul Gascoigne's life and career in the context of UK society during the 1990s and, in particular, the role of the Tabloid press's obsession with celebrity culture and its ability to make or break careers.
In this podcast, Collins discusses what his aims were for the...2022-05-1022 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow we made ’Ronaldinho: The Happiest Man in the World’, with the Douglas BrothersGlobally renowned filmmakers and photographers Stuart and Andrew Douglas talk to Broadcast Sport's Max Miller about how they made feature-length documentary, Ronaldinho: The Happiest Man in the World. The film is one of the key pieces of content on FIFA's recently launched streaming platform, FIFA+, and tells the highs and lows of one of the world's greatest players. The documentary looks at Ronaldinho's childhood in Brazil, his breakthrough to professional football and his journey to Europe including his ground-breaking years with Barcelona. It includes invaluable insights from his family, teammates. In the podcast, The Douglas Brothers explain their approach...2022-05-0621 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastIn conversation with sports production company WhisperThis is a 'fireside chat' with Sunil Patel, co-founder of Whisper, and Whisper’s director of production, Bethan Evans. They talk about the history of the company, its place in the sports production market, its ownership and earlier funding from the Channel 4 Growth Fund before receiving investment from Sony. The company is only 11 years old but is already the trusted production outfit behind flagship sporting events including The Paralympics, the F1 (for Channel 4), and cricket coverage for the BBC. It also has excelled at appointing women to key positions within the company and ensuring diversity in its workforce. Evans and Pa...2022-04-2129 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastTop Tips for Creating Sports Content for YouTubeLittle Dot Studios and Team Whistle provide insight into how they work with leading athletes, sports clubs and federations to create and manage YouTube channels that maximise fan engagement and the reach of content made for the platform. What content works best on YouTube, how do you create a YouTube strategy, and what is best practice for growing your sports brand on YouTube? Little Dot Studios runs a wealth of sports-related YouTube channels for clients, and Team Whistle manages the Premier League’s YouTube account.
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Robbie Spargo, Di...2022-04-0628 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastGearing up for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth GamesA fireside chat with Sunset+Vine's David Tippett, who provides an overview of what’s being done by the host broadcaster as it gears up for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games later in the year. Sunset+Vine won the contract last year and will capture 2,000 hours of TV coverage across 19 sports during the 11 days of the competition (28 July-8 August), for an expected global audience in excess of 1.5 billion. At least 15% of the 1,600 technical and production workforce for the games will come from Birmingham and the West Midlands, having been trained through a Host Broadcast Training Initiative that Sunset+Vine is la...2022-04-0429 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastHow We Made ’Micah Richards: Tackling Racism’, with Buzz16The Buzz16 team behind its award-winning documentary explain their approach to the production and how they created such a powerful, hard-hitting film.
In the Sky Sports documentary, the former England and Premier League footballer Micah Richards explores the true scale of the racism problem in British football, and what can be done about it.
The production team behind it are young and diverse, including many alumni of the MAMA Youth Project, which aims to get young people from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds employed in the broadcast and media industries.
This podcast is a recording...2022-04-0126 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastIWD 2022: Gender representation and diversity in sports productionThis IWD 2022 podcast is with Gemma Knight, sports director at BT Sport and Bethan Evans, head of broadcast operations at Whisper. They talk about their background and how they got to where they are today, as well as how to encourage better gender representation and diversity in sports production and sports broadcast, to mark International Women’s Day 2022. Knight and Evans also offer advice to young women who might want to pursue a career in sports production and broadcast.
2022-03-0825 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastThe future for sports in the metaverse - insight from BT Sport’s Matt StaggMatt Stagg, director of mobile strategy at BT Sport talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about sports in the metaverse. Stagg explains what the metaverse is and what it can offer sports fans, through innovative use of VR, AR and XR. BT Sport is currently undergoing R&D projects to see what could be possible utilising cloud computing and 5G, to stream immersive ‘metaverse’ experiences live and with ultra low latency to fans. These include enabling MotoGP fans to build a room of virtual screens around them to show the broadcast feed supplemented by an interactive, holographic track show...2022-03-0414 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastROONEY director Matt Smith on telling Wayne and Colleen’s inside storyBAFTA-winning film-maker Matt Smith talks to Broadcast Sport reporter Max Miller about his Prime Video documentary ROONEY.
Smith directed the film after gaining the trust of Wayne and Colleen Rooney to tell the inside story of the Rooney’s rise to fame at a young age, and how they handled the intense media interest in themselves and their relationship.
In the podcast, Smith explains how he managed to get Wayne and Colleen to open up so candidly about their lives and careers and what it takes to create a compelling sports documentary. As he explains in...2022-02-2220 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastThe making of the BBC’s ’ski lodge’ Winter Olympics virtual studioThe BBC’s lead director for the Winter Olympics, Sally Richardson, talks to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton about how and why the broadcaster created its eye-catching Winter Olympics virtual studio, turning a small green screen space in Salford into a vast ski lodge with seven presenting positions. The BBC handled the design and creation of the studio in-house and is using the space to host around 300 hours of Winter Olympics coverage over the course of the games. Richardson also talks about the remote production of the Games and the non-live content the BBC is creating around the Winter Ol...2022-02-0813 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastSports Content: What fans are willing to pay forSome great insight into sports fans' willingness (or otherwise) to pay for sport content, from Jack Genovese, senior analyst at Ampere, recorded at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit at Dock10 Studios in September. The podcast also features Steve Boulton, CEO, Golden Egg Innovation, talking about televising the Gran Turismo esports tournament from an innovative virtual studio environment. The session was chaired by Sadie Groom, MD, Bubble Agency.
2021-12-2138 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastSky Sports and Shoot The Company on using sports media for cultural changeThe third speaker session at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit, held at Dock10 Studios, MediaCityUK. Sara Butler at Shoot the Company and Steve Smith at Sky Sports talk about what broadcasters, production companies and sports organisations are doing to help facilitate cultural change and raise awareness of key issues such as gender and racial inequality and social media bullying.
2021-12-2034 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastWimbledon and City Football Group on creating content to engage directly with fansAlexandra Willis, communications and marketing director at AELTC and Gavin Johnson, group media director at City Football Group join Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton on stage at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit, held at Dock10 Studios on 30 September 2021, to talk about fan engagement for rights holders.
They discuss Wimbledon’s Wimbledon Channel and Manchester City's self-made documentary, Together.
The podcast was recorded live at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit.
2021-10-2025 minThe Broadcast Sport PodcastBBC Sport director Barbara Slater talks to BBC Sport presenter Gavin RamjaunBBC director of sport Barbara Slater talks to BBC sports presenter Gavin Ramjaun about the sports that work well on the BBC; why free-to-air is important for key sports and 'crown jewel' sporting events; and how free-to-air services partner with pay-TV and D2C platforms to maximise the reach and profile of different sporting events. Recorded at the Broadcast Sport Content Summit at Dock10 on 30 September 2021.
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