The SportBusiness Podcast

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Frank Dunne and Martin Ross examine Uefa’s 2024–27 rights sales as UC3 navigates the post-breakaway era, and reflect on Team’s 35-year role in building the Champions League into the success it is today. Maria Kholodova reports on the Bundesliga’s unusual streaming deal with O...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.   This week, Jonathan Rest, Martin Ross and Ben Cronin weigh in on how senior hires made by Relevent Sports Group and its newly-created special purpose vehicle will tackle the commercialisation of Uefa club competitions. Ben sheds light on Everton’s new stadium naming rights deal w...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Martin Ross expands on exclusive breaking news of Uefa Women’s Champions League rights deals with Disney+ and the EBU. Jonathan Rest brings us up to speed with another Disney move amid F1’s latest push to broaden – and lower the average age of - its fanbase through new licens...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Jonathan Rest and Ben Cronin explore the wider implications of Fifa’s news, released last week, that the Women’s World Cup will expand to 48 teams from 2031 onwards – and what it could mean for broadcasters and sponsors. Frank Dunne explains how DAZN are defying industry expe...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Jonathan Rest and Faaez Samadi discuss Major League Soccer’s ground-breaking new deal with Electronic Arts, which will livestream four matches on its mobile gaming platform, and what that suggests about MLS’ broadcast strategy. Staying in the US, Matthew Glendinning talks ab...

Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Jonathan Rest and Martin Ross discuss Fubo boss David Gandler’s purchase of a majority stake in Leyton Orient and how the EFL is using storytelling to build its brand stateside. Staying in east London, Jon brings exclusive news of US-based New Balance’s Premier League return...

Welcome to the SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Jonathan Rest and Martin Ross dive into a SportBusiness exclusive as McLaren cuts Castore and brings in Puma as its new apparel supplier. We join YouTube’s 20th birthday celebrations with Frank Dunne, whose three-parter on the platform lit up SportBusiness Media last week. I...

Welcome to the SportBusiness Podcast , getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, we’re in divorce court. Callum McCarthy and Martin Ross discuss the ramifications of the LFP’s never-ending dispute with DAZN, as well as the messy fallout of LaLiga’s decision to dump long-time production partner Mediapro for HBS. Matthew Glendinning makes his debut to tell...

Welcome to the SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, we take a look at Ari Emanuel's latest restructure of the Endeavor/TKO/WME/IMG machine, as he buys the Miami and Madrid stops on the ATP Tour for himself. Global news editor Martin Ross helps you decipher what has gone where, and why. Maria Kholodova joins us to chat Grand Sl...

Welcome to the SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry. This week, Callum McCarthy is joined by Martin Ross and Imran Yusuf to explore why Rogers pulled the trigger on a $7.7bn deal with the NHL, Fifa electing to play it safe with Women's World Cup venues in 2031 and 2035, as well as Two Circles expanding its media rights business and some B...

Welcome to another episode of The SportBusiness Podcast . This week, Callum McCarthy is joined by Martin Ross and Jonathan Rest for a wide-ranging conversation covering Brisbane 2032, the NBA's march on Europe, Kosmos and the ITF settling their differences, and whether to take Speedos to Sportel Miami. As an additional treat, SportBusiness Sponsorship's Ben Cronin drops in for an in-depth analysis...

Welcome to the SportBusiness Podcast, a brand new weekly from the best news team in the business that gets you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.   This week, we focus on the IOC's present and future. Kirsty Coventry is the new IOC president, beating Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. and becoming the first woman to lead the Olympic movement. We also discuss the IOC's $3bn...