Peter Hutton
Chief Executive Officer, Eurosport
Peter Hutton is CEO of Eurosport, the leading pan-regional sports entertainment destination reaching 231 million cumulative subscribers across 69 countries in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Part of Discovery Communications, Eurosport has a TV portfolio incorporating 6 channels, including the flagship Eurosport, the #1 sports TV channel in Europe, broadcasting over 3,000 hours of live sport every year into 137 million homes in 54 countries. Other channels include Eurosport 2, reaching 74 million homes in 51 countries, Eurosport HD, distributed to 40 million homes in 50 countries, Eurosport 2 HD, Eurosportnews and Eurosport Asia Pac.
Based in Paris, Peter joined Eurosport in 2015, charged with strengthening and localizing the brand worldwide. Peter is delivering a strategy which will see large scale development of Eurosport to create more locally relevant content with homegrown talent and a dedicated feed in key markets via Eurosport 2, encouraging a number of strong, local channels for future growth. Peter's goal is to push hard to maintain stability within the network's strong pillar sports in the coming years: football, cycling, tennis and wintersports.
Peter is also responsible for growing Eurosport's live and on demand presence through Eurosport Player, a multi-screen subscription service providing live streaming of Eurosport, Eurosport 2 and catch-up services for selected sports events. Peter is currently overseeing the expansion of this flagship product to improve the viewer experience further.
Building on the digital capabilities of Eurosport, Peter also oversees Eurosport.com, Europe's No.1 online sports destination available on 16 websites worldwide in 10 languages. With up to 33 million unique users per month worldwide (23 million in Europe), it provides 50 news flashes every hour and 60,000 stories per year (one every 90 seconds).
Prior to joining Eurosport in 2015, Peter worked in the sports industry for over 30 years in a variety of roles all over the world. Most recently, he was CEO at the MP and Silva sports rights agency, and previously he was part of Fox International Channels, driving the launch of their sports business outside the Americas, including the acquisition of Setanta Sports in Africa and ESPN/Star Sports in Asia. He became CEO of ESPN/Star Sports based out of Singapore and oversaw its change into Fox Sports in Asia and Star Sports in India.
Peter's career began at the grassroots of sport; at 16 years old he was commentating on cricket, football and rugby for local radio stations in West Yorkshire whilst still at school. Graduating from Cambridge University, he became sports editor of Radio Aire in Leeds, then with BBC TV, where he covered the Hillsborough football disaster and subsequent inquiry, before joining the launch team at BSB's sports channel in 1990 and going on to present and commentate on a variety of sporting events for Sky Sports.