2020
Every article published by the Journal in 2020 — 6 in total.
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17 DEC2020Opinion
Sport Spent 2020 Discovering It Was a Media Business
The year removed the crowd and left the cameras. What remained still generated most of the money — and that fact will shape governance decisions for a decade.
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22 OCT2020Technology
Crowd Noise, Synthesised: Broadcast Learns to Manufacture Atmosphere
The artificial-audience audio deployed across closed-door football was an emergency measure. It has quietly established that a meaningful part of the broadcast product can be produced rather than captured.
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17 SEP2020Athletes
Wage Deferrals and the Limits of Solidarity
Squad-wide pay agreements struck in the spring are unwinding. What they revealed about the structure of player contracts will outlast the arrangements themselves.
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09 JUL2020Venues
Empty Houses: The Long Arithmetic of a Season Without Crowds
Matchday income is the smallest of the three major revenue pillars and the most expensive to lose, because it is the only one that carries the venue’s fixed cost base with it.
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14 MAY2020Media
Broadcasters Want Their Money Back
Rebate negotiations opening across three continents will set the template for how delivery risk is priced in the next rights cycle — and rights holders are negotiating from a weaker position than the headline numbers suggest.
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26 MAR2020Markets
The Ninety-Day Shutdown: What Happens When Sport Stops Selling Time
Live sport is not a content business but a scheduling business. When the calendar emptied in March, the industry discovered how much of its revenue was booked against dates rather than assets.
