The Managing Director of the EBU’s first direct-to-consumer platform tells David Davies about two years of market growth and technological progress, recent excursions into AI, and the broader EBU sports ecosystem.
It’s now approaching two years since Alan Fagan was appointed Managing Director of Eurovision Sport – the EBU’s digital streaming platform, which was then six months into its launch mode. Since then, the former ESPN and Disney executive has steered the course of an increasingly high-profile platform that is now embedded with sports federations including the International Biathlon Union, World Athletics, European Athletics, World Aquatics, World Gymnastics, European Gymnastics, European Taekwondo, World Taekwondo, and the International Orienteering Foundation.
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