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Wake Up To Money

Business of Sport: Not just about the scores

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Mickey look at how sport is being reported off the pitch, from long reads to podcasts to social media.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

0:05.2

My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

0:11.3

It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

0:16.3

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

0:19.6

And because the team has such a diverse

0:21.2

range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through

0:26.0

archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if

0:31.8

you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories

0:37.1

from all around the UK.

0:38.9

BBC 5 Live.

0:40.6

Wake up to Money, Business of Sports with Sean Farrington and Mickey Clark.

0:46.7

Hello, transfer deadline day is done.

0:49.5

The Premier League returns.

0:50.6

You might feel like football never went away but for fans there's more ways than ever

0:54.6

to actually follow the football i say a lot of it is social media as well through facebook and through

1:00.2

youtube i'd love to access it for free but i do pay for it we've come a fair old way from a crackly radio

1:06.0

broadcast still a lot of value in that though and a long wait for the next day's newspaper. Yeah, new business models are disrupting the sports media from social media to long

1:15.2

reason podcasts. It's all competing for our attention. The question is who can make it pay?

1:20.4

Always Mickey's question. So on the program today, we've got people who are starting their own

1:24.9

podcast, podcasts, podcasts, get it right, we've got our own getting them up and running.

1:30.1

We've got new upstarts in the UK, nabbing all the top local sports journalists from around the country.

1:36.1

We've got social media experts on the programme.

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