Resetting Expectations? The State of the Sports Industry with Devoncroft’s Josh Stinehour
Unpackick the market forces reshaping live sports-production economics
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In his annual presentation at the SVG Summit, Devoncroft Partners Principal Analyst Josh Stinehour gets to the heart of the matter: the financial health of the broadcast technology industry, revenue trends for the world’s biggest media companies, and more.
Drawing on Devoncroft’s latest annual industry study and surveys of hundreds of industry professionals, Stinehour challenges the SVG community to reset expectations, rethink long-held assumptions, and confront the economic forces reshaping everything from technology buying cycles to organizational strategy.
Across a wide-ranging and candid session, Stinehour connects the dots between macro forces — tariffs, capital markets, private equity, antitrust, and media-company restructurings — and the day-to-day decisions facing sports broadcasters, leagues, vendors, and service providers. He examines what the data is really saying about REMI and remote-production models, technology spend, productivity, and staffing, while also unpacking what’s happening (and not happening) with cloud, IP migration, and evolving business models.
He also turns the lens toward AI, automation, and the next wave of technology investment, pushing the industry to move beyond buzzwords and into hard conversations about ROI, margin, revenue, and long-term value creation. It’s a thought-provoking, occasionally provocative look at where the sports-production technology market actually stands today — and what it will take to navigate what comes next.
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This presentation was hosted at the SVG Summit in New York City on Dec. 16, 2025.
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