{"id":1390,"date":"2018-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/podcasts\/publish-57\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:06:41","slug":"leaders-sport-business-podcast-sophie-goldschmidt-matt-porter-and-miheer-walavalkar","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/podcasts\/leaders-sport-business-podcast-sophie-goldschmidt-matt-porter-and-miheer-walavalkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Sport Business Podcast: Sophie Goldschmidt, Matt Porter, and Miheer Walavalkar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The birth of GolfTV | the death of MP & Silva | the charm of Shahid Khan | equal pay & Facebook ups and downs in surfing | the Phil Taylor-shaped hole in darts | the future of the sports consumption experience.<\/h4>\n

By James Emmett<\/h6>\n

David Cushnan and James Emmett reflect on another fortnight of change across the global sports industry, including the launch of the Discovery-PGA Tour joint venture OTT vehicle GolfTV, the final demise of rights agency MP & Silva, and Shahid Khan’s withdrawn offer to buy Wembley Stadium from the FA.<\/p>\n

Later, we hear from three CEOs with very different challenges ahead of them: Sophie Goldschmidt (starts at 14.31), the former WTA, NBA, RFU, and CSM executive who has been CEO of the World Surf League (WSL) for the past 13 months; Matt Porter (starts at 27.16), the Matchroom Sport Director who has been CEO of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) since 2008; and Miheer Walavalkar, the co-founder and CEO of LiveLike, which launched in 2015 as a VR company in sport but has evolved to provide full immersive broadcast experiences without the need for headsets.<\/p>\n

On the conversational agenda:<\/p>\n

– Making changes at the WSL: new formats, new calendar, new broadcast products, and a new, equal pay structure;<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Working through live streaming technical challenges;<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Ten years of globalisation at the PDC;<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Why the Phil Taylor-shaped hole isn’t as big as it once would have been;<\/strong><\/p>\n

– The future of sports broadcasting and media consumption and why what we have today is not sustainable.<\/strong><\/p>\n