BT Sport won the IABM Award for the Most Inclusive Company in December 2021. The sports broadcaster collected the award in recognition of a wide range of action across its operation to promote Diversity and Inclusion. We followed up with BT Sport COO*, Jamie Hindhaugh, to uncover he story behind his inspiring BT Sport United initiative, dive deeper into the programme, discover what’s coming next – and also talk about BT Sport’s sustainability push, which is delivering astonishing results.
Delivering Wider Reach for Women’s Sport
Women’s sport has enjoyed a great start to 2022, with the Women’s Super League (WSL), Six Nations, and Women’s Cricket World Cup, proving key to record UK television audiences. The Women’s Sport Trust found that “UK women’s sport viewership increased 140% from 1st January to 15th May” and Sports Pro Media recently highlighted that WSL broadcast consumption was up 285% in the first year of the Sky-BBC rights deal, based on data from the same study.
Recruitment evolution and the skills gap
Dermot Casey, Managing Director at EMS Broadcast, specialist recruitment agency for the technical, operational and creative areas of the media and broadcast industry, shares his thoughts on how 2022 is shaping up and his vision for the future.
Streaming as a force for diversity and inclusion
Not unexpectedly, if you lock everyone up in their houses for a while you get some noticeably accelerated expansion of the streaming market, and, if we let everyone out again, a drop.
In fact, it’s been far from a corresponding drop but more recent discussion, triggered by Netflix results amongst other factors, has brought a focus as to whether the streaming market might be slowing or saturating.
Genelec: We must see ourselves in our neighbour
It’s delightful to see the growing awareness of diversity and inclusion in recent years, both in society and the corporate world. What should be a natural and self-evident way of acting can often be difficult for us human beings. Yet we are all equal and have the same dignity, irrespective of background, education, skills, gender or position. So how do we increase workplace diversity and inclusion – and why should we do it?
Vizrt Group: If diversity drives innovation – Why is our industry so far behind?
It’s undeniable that the demographic of people in the tech industry is not reflective of the diverse world we live in. According to a 2022 report by Tech Nation, 23% of tech director roles are fulfilled by women, which is lower than the already low 29% in the wider economy. Looking at the overall tech workforce, the numbers become even more depressing. Women make up only 19% of the workforce.
Four CEO’s and four industry opinions on the future of Broadcast & Media
IABM’s CEO Peter White will bring to the table industry questions covering sustainability, diversification, work from home, along with how is AI/ML changing their products, services and business operations. Let’s see how four CEO’s each covering distinctive aspects of the industry will forecast the future of the industry.
BaM Award® Winner NDI-5: Produce more, save the planet, adopt remote
One of the key takeaways from the past two years is that as an industry not only do we need to travel less, but we can travel less and still make excellent programming that wows audiences.
Quicklink’s remote contribution solutions help avoid over 21 thousand tonnes of CO2 in a single month
Quicklink, the leading provider of video and audio contribution solutions, has helped avoid a total of 21,353 tonnes of CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere in just one month – the equivalent of 64,059 m2 of sea ice saved.
The importance of reducing your carbon impact and the Quicklink advantage
It’s extremely hard not to hear about climate change, and rightly so. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published in a 2019 report that the worst impacts of climate change could be irreversible by 2030 – just over eight years away. There has never been a more imperative time to tackle this monumental issue.