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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 could follow the NFL in launching its own streaming service in the near future after Richard Masters, the top-flight soccer competition’s chief executive, said that the organisation has options to go direct-to-consumer in some territories. There’s also time to look at digital sports media company Overtime’s US$100 million Series D funding round before the conversation moves on to FC Barcelona’s rush to raise funds after the club sold yet another stake in its media hub.

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 evaluate which innovations will create value in the long term. Then, hot on the heels of Discovery merging with Warner Bros, Scott offers some insight into the opportunities that union will create for Turner Sports and Eurosport to leverage each other’s technologies across their sports coverage.

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone are joined by Marion Ranchet, founder and managing director of The Local Act Consultancy, for a deep dive into FAST channels. Ranchet, who offers consultancy services to companies launching OTT video services, explains precisely what a FAST – or free ad-supported streaming television – channel is, and highlights how the model differs from advertising-based video on demand (AVOD).   Then, the trio consider the opportunities the FAST approach presents for the sports industry, what organisations should do when setting up their own FAST channels, and whether the model could even replace linear television in the future.

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.

This week’s StreamTime Podcast also covers the rising influence of TikTok in sport and Bruin Capital’s decision to move on from Deltatre.

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 Formula One’s rising value in the US after reports emerged of a three-year media rights extension with ESPN worth as much as US$90 million a year, a figure driven by competition from the likes of Amazon, Netflix and Comcast. The episode also covers YouTube’s future areas of focus, how Netflix’s adoption of AVOD could impact sport, and the addition of Fifa+ to connected TVs.

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 rights to every MLS game for a reported US$250 million a year. Then, after seeing the business he founded in 2008 secure unicorn status back in April, von Cranach joins Meacham to discuss the evolution of Berlin-based OneFootball, which has rights in various territories to show leagues such as Portugal’s Primeira Liga, the Belgian Pro League and Liga MX. Plus, having recently secured a deal to become the Bundesliga’s non-fungible token (NFT) partner, von Cranach also explains how OneFootball plans to tap into the expertise of new investors such as Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs to maximise the Web 3.0 opportunity.

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.