E70: The New Calendar

Today’s guest is Angus Buchanan, the managing director and co-founder of The Sports Consultancy, one of the leading independent consultancies in the sport and entertainment sector, and occupy a space between rights holders and host cities, a relationship that is under great strain as covid-19 shutdown tears up the sporting calendar. What happens next is the theme of this conversation and Angus is in a good spot to shed light on that question.The host cities contribute billions to the sports economy but get far less media coverage than the other major investors such as media and sponsors.Angus’ team have been able to map out the emerging international and domestic calendar for over 40 sports. This gives them an insight in to the decisions that need to be made on both sides of the host-rights holder divide and so we ask the question, is there a better way of organising the sporting year?Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 500 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify and every podcast app. If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series and live events, you can reach us via the website.