StreamTime Sports

On this special episode of the StreamTime Podcast hosts Nick Meacham and Chris Stone are joined by Timo Lumme, who spent the last 18 years of his career working as the International Olympics Committee's managing director for the television and marketing services.  Lumme's achievements include the industry setting deal with NBC, building the highly successful TOP programme and launching the Olympic...

On this week's StreamTime episode, Nick and Chris are joined by Whistle Sport's international managing director, Jeff Nathenson, to the discuss the current state of social media in sports in a conversation covering everything from Elon Musk's Twitter takeover to Logan Paul and KSI's Prime launch.  Talking points: Twitter - (5:12) Facebook - (15:52) Will a social media platform ever purchase live r...

On this week's episode of the StreamTime Podcast SportsPro's chief executive, Nick Meacham, sits down with the NBA's managing director of Europe and Middle East, Ralph Rivera.  The two discuss the league’s international broadcast strategy, what the launch of the NBA App means for the business, and how to drive fan engagement.  Talking points: Intro  (6:50) - Interview with Ralph Rivera  (51:26) -...

On this week’s episode of the StreamTime Podcast, SportsPro’s Nick Meacham and Chris Stone power rank which sports properties they believe are currently doing it best in the OTT and streaming space. The likes of the NFL, NBA, Premier League and Fifa, are sorted into categories ranging from love, to like, through to jury’s out. Talking points:  • PGA Tour, NBA, and WWE – (3:15) • NFL – (5:30) • For...

On this week’s episode of the StreamTime Podcast, SportsPro’s chief executive Nick Meacham is joined in an interview with Warner Bros Discovery’s president and managing director for sports, Andrew Georgiou.  Prior to the chat with the interview with Georgiou, Meacham and SportsPro’s community lead, Chris Stone share their takeaways from the SportsPro OTT Summit. The two discuss what they learned f...

Join Nick Meacham and Chris Stone as they discuss the big talking points in the world of sports media. On this week’s episode of the StreamTime Podcast, SportsPro’s Nick Meacham and Chris Stone mull recent developments in the sports media space, including Overtime’s streaming deal with Amazon, Comcast’s options for offloading Sky Germany, the outlook for Major League Soccer (MLS) on Apple and more...

Nick Meacham is joined by Amanda Laing, Foxtel’s chief commercial and content officer to discuss their strategy in the Australian market. In the interview, Laing discusses Foxtel’s ‘one kitchen, many restaurants’ approach to ensure fans are served content how they want it. Amanda also discusses how Foxtel’s sports Kayo streaming platform operates as an aggregator delivering greater value for fans...

On this week’s episode of the StreamTime Podcast Nick Meacham and Chris Stone share news and insights on a busy week of sports broadcast news. The pair look at a series of stories from prominent rights holders including the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Fifa.  Talking points:  Will the NFL be able to turn things around after a slow start to the launc...

This week’s two-part episode of the StreamTime Podcast starts with hosts Nick Meacham and Chris Stone rounding up some of the major recent developments in the sports media industry. The pair offer their thoughts on Formula One’s long-term, multi-territory media rights extension with pay-TV broadcasting giant Sky, World Rugby’s acquisition of the RugbyPass digital media platform, and reports sugges...

John-Paul McKerlie, vice president of sales and marketing at TOD, tells Nick Meacham and Chris Stone about the launch of BeIN Media Group's new streaming service and the role of sport on the platform.

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone sit down with Kenny Gersh, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) executive vice president of business development, to mark the 20th anniversary of the MLB.TV streaming platform. Two decades after MLB became the first professional sports league to live stream a regular season game, Gersh discusses how the organisation went on to build BA...

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone return to wrap up some of the major news stories in sports media from recent weeks. With the race for the National Football League’s (NFL) Sunday Ticket package hotting up, the pair consider Google’s reported interest in the rights and what it means for the football organisation. They also explore whether the Premier League coul...

Peter Scott, the vice president of emerging media and innovation at Warner Bros Discovery, joins SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone for a deep dive into the future of broadcast technology. The trio discuss what technologies will have the biggest impact on sports broadcasting within the next three to five years, while they also consider how organisations should ev...

Nick Meacham and Chris Stone analyse the past week’s sports media news before Sean Conroy, EVP North America at Genius Sports, joins Tom Bassam for part two.

Minal Modha, consumer research lead at Ampere Analysis, joins the StreamTime Podcast to discuss the growth of women’s sport and the role broadcasters and brands have to play in driving it forward.

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone return to review some of the past week’s major stories in sports media. After Uefa announced new broadcast deals in some of its key markets for the next Champions League commercial cycle, the pair assess the implications of the governing body’s agreements in the UK with Amazon, BT Sport and the BBC. In addition, they consider Fo...

Seven League’s Charlie Beall sits down with SportsPro’s Nick Meacham and Chris Stone for an in-depth discussion about the opportunity for sports properties to drive engagement in virtual environments.

The guest on this week’s StreamTime Podcast is Lucas von Cranach, the chief executive and founder of soccer media platform OneFootball. In part one of the show, SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone reflect on a landmark ten-year broadcast deal between Major League Soccer (MLS) and Apple, which has made its biggest play in live sports to date by securing global righ...

This week’s StreamTime Podcast sees host Nick Meacham and SportsPro community lead Chris Stone catch up on some of the big media stories in golf and motorsport.

SportsPro’s media and technology editor Steve McCaskill returns to the StreamTime Podcast with chief executive Nick Meacham and senior content manager Chris Stone. The trio discuss what BT and Warner Bros Discovery’s joint venture means for the UK sports rights market, how the pair will work together in the short and long term, and whether the combined effort poses a threat to Sky. Then, Meacham s...

The second instalment of the StreamTime Podcast’s Gen Z series sees host Nick Meacham sit down with Jayne Peressini, vice president of growth at NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs.  First, Meacham and SportsPro senior content manager Chris Stone discuss what the Netflix subscriber decline could mean for sport, as well as Endeavor Streaming’s new one-stop shop for content creators and Warner Bros Dis...

This week's StreamTime Podcast features a session from our recent Ignition event, when SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham was joined by Monica Robbins, the director of sports partnerships at Microsoft. The US technology giant has been actively growing its presence in sport and provides its services to some of the world's top leagues and organisations, including the likes of the National Footba...

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham sits down with Motasem El Bawab, head of digital at Volleyball World, the new commercial entity set up by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) off the back of its groundbreaking, nine-figure investment from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. A seasoned marketing, product development and data expert, El Bawab delves into the digital moves Voll...

The latest episode of the StreamTime Podcast sees SportsPro’s managing director Nick Meacham joined by senior content manager Chris Stone to break down the three direct-to-consumer strategies that define the sports ecosystem. After a brief catchup on the latest news in the space, including the joint venture move by Discovery and BT Sport, the conversation gets into an in-depth analysis of streamin...

SportsPro's managing director Nick Meacham is joined by Beverley McGarvey, executive vice president and chief content officer at ViacomCBS to talk about the state of the streaming market down under. In this episode Beverley gives insight into the the competition for sports rights in Australia, ViacomCBS's recent $200m dollar partnership with the A-League and what it is like to be owned by one of t...