SportsPro Podcast
By SportsPro
Join SportsPro writers and guests for comment, insight and analysis on the matters of the moment in the global sports industry.
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IPL 2024... can anything stop the big business of Indian cricket?
The opening day of the 2024 IPL season brought in 590m video views for JioCinema, showing nothing moves the needle in sports like Indian's Twenty20 franchise cricket behemoth. How far will the tournament's influence grow? Her… -
Does Fubo CEO David Gandler have a point about the 'streaming cartel'? Answers from on the floor at SportsPro NYC
Amid a very publicly announced antitrust lawsuit, FuboTV CEO David Gandler has described the new streaming service from ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery as a 'streaming cartel'. With Gandler one of the speakers at SportsPr… -
NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman... new season, new teams, growing interest
The NWSL is back for the 2024 season with an expanded 14 franchises, a new raft of TV deals and growing interest from fans, as well as investors. Here, NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman speaks exclusively to Tom Bassam in a broad-ranging inte… -
Darts is arrowing up on the Luke Littler wave so we spoke to PDC CEO Matt Porter
4.8 million people tuned in to watch the 2023/24 World Darts Championship final between Luke Littler and Luke Humphries across Sky Sports' channels - a record for a non-football broadcast on the UK pay-TV network. Since then, Premier… -
What does allyship truly mean?
In this special NEW ERA podcast, SportsPro's Katie Preston, Yin Khoo and Jatila Blake discuss the true meaning of allyship and the importance of active support to achieve gender equity. Then, in part two (33:20), Elena Kouy… -
F1 2024 season preview: The big off-track storylines
Formula One returns this weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix and, to mark the start of the new season, BlackBook Motorsport writer Cian Brittle joins the pod to discuss all the major narratives from the paddock. Talking po… -
Green Football Weekend and the challenges of sustainability in soccer
The second-ever Green Football Weekend was held earlier in February to encourage fans to adopt a more sustainable approach to following their teams. Pledgeball CEO, Katie Cross, and Helen Taylor, the former CEO of Forest Green Rovers, join t… -
The secrets of making a successful sports documentary
Series five of Drive to Survive was watched for 90.2m hours in the first half of last year - one Netflix's biggest hits. Box to Box, the creator of the show, is now applying the popular format across a number of different sports. War… -
These are 2024's 20 ideas to invest in now
SportsPro has published its fifth annual class of sports technology startups worth investing your attention in. To mark the occasion, technology editor Steve McCaskill joins the pod to talk through the list before we hear from Gareth Lippiat… -
Meet the man entrusted to spend PIF money on making Saudi Arabia a global sports powerhouse
Danny Townsend, the recently installed CEO of SRJ Sports Investments, has a fun job. Counting the PIF as its sole shareholder, SRJ (pronounced 'surge') has been set up to accelerate the growth of the sports sector in Saudi Ar…