Charlotte Henry is a journalist and broadcaster who creates and runs The Addition newsletter and podcast; an award-winning publication looking at the crossover between media and technology.
Weekend Round-up: My Predictions for Q4 2025, The Future of Sports Media is FAST and Direct
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Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. This is a weekend round-up of the stories I've covered over the last few days. If you have a premium subscription, thank you! If not, please consider upgrading to a premium subscription. It means you get even more content AND the satisfaction of supporting the growth of independent media! [Some links may help generate a commission that also supports The Addition.] Summer is a weird time in media. It is (hopefully) quiet, but that doesn't stop the airwaves and newspaper pages having to be filled. This year, the British political press have not had much time to relax as protests and legal challenges against migrants being accommodated in hotels have sprung up in Epping, Essex and look likely to spread this bank holiday weekend. My Predictions for Q4 2025It’s the time of year when people are thinking ahead to Q4 2025 and how they can end their year on high. I’m certainly thinking about that for The Addition. With that in mind, I thought I’d share some predictions at the intersection of culture, media and sport for the coming three months. The usual caveats, namely that my predictions are generally terrible, apply:
It’s been a big couple of days in US sports media. ESPN has (finally) launched its full-fat streaming product, and Yahoo! Sports Network is live. The first is the only way (for Americans) to get the full ESPN experience without cable. The latter comes with 60 hours of original programming. The services are huge steps forward for both brands and tell us a lot about where sports media is now. People either want high-quality rights exactly what they want, when they want. Or they don’t want to pay.
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Charlotte Henry is a journalist and broadcaster who creates and runs The Addition newsletter and podcast; an award-winning publication looking at the crossover between media and technology.
Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. Thank you for having a Premium Subscription. It means you get even more content AND the satisfaction of supporting the growth of independent media! [Some links may help generate a commission that also supports The Addition.] “Streaming Wars” – my second book – is out this week in the UK! It comes out in the US later this month. In it, I explore the seismic shifts behind the rise of platforms like Netflix,...
Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. Thank you for having a Premium Subscription. It means you get even more content AND the satisfaction of supporting the growth of independent media! [Some links may help generate a commission that also supports The Addition.] Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves on Tuesday night, walking on stage to a huge, extended and entirely predictable standing ovation. The entire first section, around 28 minutes in...
Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. Thank you for having a Premium Subscription. It means you get even more content AND the satisfaction of supporting the growth of independent media! [Some links may help generate a commission that also supports The Addition.] Support from Newsrewired: Over the weekend, the tragic news broke of the death of Matt Beard. The former Liverpool Women’s manager was just 47. I never got to interview him, so I can...