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Introducing the sports world to the World Wide Web for @Sportico. Producer, @sundaylongread and @thisdaypod.
Oct 26, 2021 11 tweets 3 min read
I’ve seen so much about F1’s ‘Netflix Effect,’ but I couldn’t believe a single docuseries (however great it is) could solely account for the sport’s US explosion. So I poked around.

What I found were The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Sports… F1 was in trouble 5 years ago. The 3 words used to describe the sport were “expensive,” “technological” and (uh oh) “boring.” F1’s global TV audience shrunk by almost half from 2008 to ’16.

Then Liberty Media took over. Here’s what changed.
Jan 24, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Fox's game-changing 'megalodon' camera started out as a home video rig for one of its technical directors. I spoke to him about the tech, and what these last two months have been like (“a bit unreal").

sportico.com/business/media… ImageImageImageImage About the whole 8k misunderstanding: "It confused me honestly. If anything I would have thought that viewers would complain because parts of the image are out of focus. I tell people, it’s not an 8K camera, it’s an $8k camera." (cc: @reckless)