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Broadcast Sport Awards

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Entries for 2025 will open soon!

ENTRY DEADLINE: 12 SEPTEMBER 2025

The awards qualifying period is from 13 September 2024 to 12 September 2025 and the cost per entry is £355 + VAT

For entry enquiries, please contact shane.murphy@mbi.london

Best Original Content by a Rights Holder

This category rewards UK or Ireland based sports clubs, leagues, and federations that have produced unique and compelling content for their fan base.

This could be a short-form project, a long-form feature, an episodic series, or any other form of sports content. It could have distributed via TV, a D2C platform, social media, or any other type of streaming platform.

Best Social Media Campaign

Sports content, devised by a UK or Ireland based company, which has excelled at maximising reach and engagement with its target audience on at least one social media platform.

The campaign will be able to demonstrate how it’s fully embraced the opportunities opened up by social media, and how it’s resonated with the demographic it’s attempting to reach. 

Best Use of Tech In A Sports Production

This category celebrates the ability of technology to elevate a sports production.

It honours a production that has innovated using tech either to provide deeper understanding of a sport or a particular aspect of the sport; to capture better quality images or audio; to provide a better presentation of a sport to fans; or that has utilised tech in any other way that had a major impact on the content. 

Best Visual Storytelling Using Data & Insight

Sponsored by:
Jigsaw24

This award honours visual storytelling in a sports production, where data and insight has been utilised to truly enhance fan engagement.

The storytelling could centre on on-screen graphics that enhance live sports coverage; data and insight used to provide deeper storytelling in pre- and/or post-match analysis; the use of AR and immersive graphics to enhance storytelling around a sporting event, including in virtual/hybrid studio environments; or any other example of how sports storytelling using data and insight has enhanced the content.  

The work will have been created by a UK or Ireland based company. 

International Programme of the Year

This award is for a sports production made for the international market that has had a big impact over the year. It can be a one-off production; a weekly series; part of the coverage of a sports tournament; or any other form of sports content.

It could have distributed via TV, a D2C platform, social media, or any other type of streaming platform. 

Pundit of the Year

This honours the sports pundit consistently offering the best, most enlightened insight and opinion on UK or Ireland based productions.

They are likely best known for TV sports analysis, but may also be from the world of radio, digital and podcasts.

The award entry can either be for the pundit’s coverage of a specific event or for the overall quality of the pundit’s sports analysis and insight during the qualifying period.  

Short-Form Content of the Year

Sponsored by:

Reuters

This category honours (non-branded) short-form sports content (a promo, trailer, title sequence, music montage sequence, and so on) made by a UK or Ireland based company, which has excelled at entertaining and informing its target audience.  

The content will be noteworthy in terms of its creative execution and will stand out from the crowd, especially resonating with the demographic it’s attempting to reach. 

*NEW* Short-Form Content of the Year (Branded)

This category honours branded/commercial short-form sports content (a commercial and any other form of sponsored/branded short-form sports content) made by a UK or Ireland based company, which has excelled at maximising reach and engagement with its target audience.  

The content will be noteworthy in terms of its creative execution and will stand out from the crowd, especially resonating with the demographic it’s attempting to reach. 

Sports Broadcaster/Streamer of the Year

This award recognises the UK or Ireland based sports broadcaster/streaming service that, over the last 12 months, has truly excelled in a particular area of sports content; live sports, sports docs, social media content, or any other aspect of sports broadcasting. 

Sports Commentator of the Year

This award recognises the sports commentator who has provided consistently engaging and insightful coverage of sporting events during the last 12-months. The commentator can be working in radio or TV, or across both, and be providing commentary on any sport.  

The entry will be judged on the commentator’s ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the action as it unfolds, putting it in context, keeping both ardent fans of the sport and newcomers informed, entertained, and glued to what’s going on. 

Sports Documentary of the Year (Over 60 Minutes)

This category honours the best TV and/or feature film sports documentary release of the year (over 60 minutes), made by a UK or Ireland based production company.

The winner will have excelled at telling a compelling and illuminating sports story that provides great insight into the subject matter. 

Sports Documentary of the Year (Series)

This category honours the best sports docuseries of the year, made by a UK or Ireland based production company.

The winner will have excelled in telling a compelling and illuminating sports story across multiple episodes that provides great insight into the subject matter. 

Sports Documentary of the Year (Up To 60 Minutes)

This category honours the best sports documentary of the year (up to 60 minutes), made by a UK or Ireland based production company.

The winner will have excelled at telling a compelling and illuminating sports story that provides great insight into the subject matter. 

Sports Entertainment Programme of the Year

This award is for a sports entertainment programme, produced by a UK or Ireland based company, that has made an impact during the last year.

It can be a one-off production; a weekly series; part of the coverage of a sports tournament; or any other form of broadcast/streamed sports content. 

*NEW* Sports Influencer of the Year

This award recognises a sports content creator/influencer who has pioneered in their ability to produce compelling, engaging content that resonates with their target audience during the eligibility period.

Judges will be looking for examples of how the content creator/influencer has embraced innovative digital trends, content styles and fan engagement opportunities of different platforms, to further enhance their reach and appeal to new and existing followers. 

Sports Podcast of the Year

This category rewards a sports-focused podcast that has excelled in terms of its originality, ambition and appeal to its target audience.

The podcast will have utilised the opportunities available for content makers using the podcast format and gained a loyal and enthusiastic audience.

The podcast can be a factual or entertainment format, and can be audio-only or an audio and video podcast. 

Sports Presenter of the Year

This award recognises sports presenting excellence, and could be a well-established presenter, or new, up-and-coming talent. It could be a UK or Ireland based TV presenter or someone working predominantly in the digital space.  

What unites the entries in this category is the ability of the presenter to host and be the face of a show, while offering in-depth knowledge of the sport. The winning presenter has a passion to ensure the coverage appeals to both casual fans and ardent followers of the sport. 

Sports Production Company of the Year

This award recognises a UK or Ireland based sports content producer that, over the last 12 months (within the qualifying period) has truly excelled in a particular area of sports production; live sports, sports docs, social media content, or any other aspect of sports content creation. 

Sports Production of the Year

This award honours the production expertise behind the year’s best, most inventive sports coverage.

It can be for any sports event produced by a UK or Ireland based company for distribution across linear TV, digital platforms and/or social media. 

Sports Production of the Year (Quadrennial)

This award honours the production expertise behind the best, most inventive coverage of a quadrennial sports event.

The production of the event should involve a UK or Ireland based company for distribution across linear TV, digital platforms and/or social media.

The entry can be focused on the live coverage of the event, or any other content specifically created for the quadrennial event. 

*NEW* Sports Reporter of the Year

This award recognises excellence in sports reporting, and could go to a well-established reporter, or new, up-and-coming talent.

The reporter will have had a standout year reporting in the field, in the studio, in post-match interviews, news, features, podcasts, TV, radio, digital and/or online.  

What unites the entries in this category is the ability of the reporter to uncover insight and great quotes, break stories and drive the news agenda from their interviews and stories.

The winning reporter has a passion and knowledge that shines through in their work. 

Sustainability Initiative of the Year

This category honours a standout sustainability initiative in relation to a sports event, sports production or sports broadcast.

Your entry should demonstrate how sustainability has been at the heart of the initiative and showcase the different ways sustainability-focused actions have been planned and implemented and the positive results they have achieved.

The sustainability initiative will at least partly have taken place in the UK or Ireland. 

*NEW* TV Sports Moment of the Year

This category celebrates the television coverage of the biggest, most memorable sports ‘moment’ of the year.

It will be a watercooler moment where a special sports event brings the nation together, and it can be in any sport, and at any time in a competition.  

The award honours the way the moment is captured and covered on TV, providing the opportunity for viewers at home to truly feel part of the special moment.  

Young Talent of the Year

This honours individuals under 30 that have excelled in their role over the last 12 months (within the qualifying period).

The young talent can work in-front of the camera, or behind-the-scenes in production, post-production, in live broadcast, documentary making, or any other craft skill related to the production or broadcast of sports content. 

YouTube Channel of the Year

This award recognises a UK or Ireland based sports-focused YouTube channel that has produced the most creative and engaging content for their subscribers during the qualifying period.

The channel will have built a loyal fanbase by providing exclusive and fan-centric sports content. 

(The below are non-enterable categories)

Broadcast Sport Special Recognition Award

(This is a non-enterable category)

This will go to a long-standing, prominent figure in the sports content industry who’s made a huge impact either behind-the-scenes or in front of the camera.

It will be someone who has played an essential role in helping move sports broadcasting on to where it is today. Rather than opening up entries for this award, the Broadcast Sport team will select the winner and present the award on the night of the Broadcast Sport Awards. 

 

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  • It is rare to get such a good mix of sport industry professionals in the room from all corners of the market. The opportunity to share in the successes of the year... was fantastic!
    Edward Fleet
    Sales Manager UK & Northern Europe, Stats Perform
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    Head of Marketing, NEP UK