Business of Sport: The Power Of Sports Documentaries
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman & Matt Slater discuss the rise of sport documentaries that pull back the curtain on the lives of professional athletes and attract new fans into watching live sport.
Guests include Christian Horner, Team Principal of the Red Bull Racing Formula One who features in the hugely successful Netflix series Drive to Survive.
Then we’ll hear from Leo Pearlman from Fulwell 73 who has produced multiple hours of television and feature films including Sunderland Till I Die & I am Bolt.
And we’ll get a commercial overview with sports media rights expert Murray Barnett of 26 West Sport who has also worked for the likes of Formula 1, The NBA, World Rugby and ESPN.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to the Business and Sport podcast on The Athletic. |
| 0:17.3 | Matt Slater with us as usual. |
| 0:19.5 | Coming up today, we're going to discuss the rise of sport |
| 0:21.6 | documentaries that pull back with Curtin on the lives of professional athletes and attract new |
| 0:26.9 | fans into watching live sports. So our guests are Christian Horner, team principal of the Red Bull Racing |
| 0:33.8 | Formula One team, and they feature in the hugely successful Netflix series Drive |
| 0:38.4 | to Survive. We'll also hear from Leo Perlman of Fullwell 73, who's produced multiple hours |
| 0:44.6 | of TV and feature films, including Sunderland Till I Die and I Am Bolt. And also, Murray Barnett |
| 0:51.7 | will give us a commercial overview. |
| 0:59.0 | He is a sports media rights expert with 26 West Sport. |
| 1:01.0 | Roll cameras. |
| 1:03.7 | Action. |
| 1:07.7 | Formula One is open for business again. |
| 1:08.8 | Good morning. |
| 1:11.3 | You've got to be able to block it all out and focus on |
| 1:12.6 | the one. |
| 1:18.2 | Kicking some ass. |
| 1:24.2 | Do you want an umbrella? |
| 1:25.6 | Oh, fuck off. |
| 1:27.2 | That'll tear off my ego, you know. |
| 1:30.3 | So F1 is already one of the most watch sports globally, |
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