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The SportBusiness Podcast gets you up to speed with the stories powering the global sports industry. Our sector-leading newsroom brings you exclusive news, detailed analysis and intelligent opinions that help you and your business grow.
Expert reporters cover the industry’s burning topics across media rights, sponsorship, event hosting, sports tech and more, cutting through the noise of LinkedIn commentators and getting you informed, fast.
SportBusiness is the global sports industry’s leading provider of news, data and analysis. Our work helps the world’s biggest sports organisations make better decisions every day.
Want to join them? Visit SportBusiness.com or email info@sportbusiness.com to find out more.
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Welcome to The SportBusiness Podcast, getting you informed on the biggest stories in the global sports industry.
This week, Matthew Williams and Jonathan Rest join the podcast to discuss the Indian government’s ban of all money-based online games – including pay-to-play fantasy games like Dream 11 – and how that will impact not just the BCCI and the IPL but other leagues and sports in India and abroad, with one observer saying it will leave a “massive void”.
Jon then looks at how ‘hockey met football’ at the San Siro in Milan last weekend, as the NHL launched its new internationalisation strategy with Italy’s Lega Serie A – and what it hopes to achieve.
We also discuss YouTube’s big week coming up – with its exclusive global coverage of the NFL’s 2025 International Games season opener in São Paulo, while Brazilian broadcaster Globo launches its own YouTube channel with NFL games, national team qualifiers and more.
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Host: Catherine Davies
Contributors: Matthew Williams and Jonathan Rest
Editor: Lumi Lehmuskallio
Sources:
1. Dream11’s BCCI deal ends, more agreements in doubt
2. FanCode parent in $50m play for Times Internet pair
4. Serie A pact kicks off NHL global growth plan
5. NHL recruits de Boer to Zurich-based rights role
6. YouTube gets global free-to-view rights to NFL game
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