BBC Sport claimed the prestigious Sports Broadcaster of the Year at the Broadcast Sports Awards last night (14 November 2024) with judges praising how they have ‘set the standard of sport broadcasting not just in the UK, but globally’.
Gabby Logan also won the Presenter of the Year award and Clare Balding received the Outstanding Contribution to Sports Broadcasting award.
Michael Johnson, who was part of BBC Sport’s coverage at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, was named Pundit of the Year, with Laura Kenny being highly commended in the category. The BBC’s coverage of the Women’s FA Cup Final (made by Whisper) won Annual Production of the Year; and the BBC’s Olympics coverage in Sport Production of the Year (quadrennial) and There’s Only One Rob Burrow in Sport Documentary up to 60 minutes were also highly commended.
Alex Kay-Jelski, BBC Director of Sport says: “These incredible awards are testament to the huge year of Sport that the BBC has brought to audiences across the UK. We have world class teams both on and off-air bringing people together for the biggest sporting moments and delivering the highest standard of content year in year out, and for this to be recognised is something everyone can be proud of.”
The annual awards celebrate the best sports content on TV and digital platforms – from sports documentaries and live sport production to social media and content creation.
These awards follow hot on the heels of a hugely successful sporting summer across BBC Sport, topped off with record-breaking coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics Games. BBC Sport’s coverage of the Games was streamed a record 218 million times online, more than doubling the Tokyo Olympic Games total of 104m, with 12.2m people signed into BBC iPlayer accounts to watch coverage.
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