Case Study: Fox Sports Australia achieves 10–20% more efficient broadcast planning with Smartsheet

How Fox Sports in Australia Makes Broadcast Planning 10% to 20% More Efficient

Fox Sports Australia’s Outside Broadcast team plans and delivers roughly 1,000 live sporting events a year, coordinating schedules, camera deployments, announcers, connectivity and last‑minute changes across multiple sports. Relying on spreadsheets and email meant constant manual searching, missed updates, and a high volume of phone calls and printed schedules that slowed planning and risked errors.

Partnering with 6STEP, Fox Sports deployed Smartsheet—using DataMesh, dashboards, the Calendar App and automation—to centralize data, standardize views and send real‑time mobile alerts. The solution cut change-management overhead, reduced phone and email traffic, improved accuracy and scalability, and delivered a 10–20% gain in planning efficiency without adding staff.

Fox Sports Australia

Steve Barnes

Outside Broadcast Manager