Chad Finn of The Boston Globe on the NFL Draft and whether you will watch the NHL Playoffs

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 201 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Chad Finn, a sports media writer and general columnist for the Boston Globe. In this podcast, we discuss ESPN, ABC and the NFL Network’s NFL Draft coverage; what we thought about the lower viewership; how we would staff future NFL Draft presentations; what we think about Amazon’s first game in 2022; how ESPN and Turner will present the NHL playoffs and what series has the most viewer appeal; Urban Meyer returning to Fox Sports; the Celtics as an NBA ratings draw; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.8	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the Sports Media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:48.1	My guest in this episode, it's a regular, and I'm going to make them more of a regular because I enjoy our conversations.
0:53.4	Chad Fint, a sports media writer and general columnist for the Boston Globe.
0:58.2	In this podcast, we go pretty deep on ESPN, ABC, and the NFL Network's NFL draft coverage. Both Chad and I watched more draft coverage than a normal human being should.
1:03.6	And we obviously have thoughts on the presentation and people who were the on-air people for the ESPNs and NFL networks and ABC.
1:14.1	What we thought about the lower viewership this year, which was pretty significant from
1:19.6	the first round.
1:22.0	We got into Amazon's first game.
1:23.9	We both think they did really, really well for their schedule.
1:27.4	Then got into the NHL playoffs,
1:28.8	how we expect the SPN and Turner to do. Talked a little Urban Meyer returning to Fox Sports,
1:33.4	which seems like an inevitability at this point. Chat and I have our thoughts on that. And then the NBA
1:40.0	ratings, which always is a topic seemingly for every sports media podcast at one point
1:46.5	and get into the Celtics as well in terms of them being a viewership draw. So if you love
1:51.7	sports media, you should like this one. Chad Finn for about an hour coming up on the sports
1:55.6	media podcast. All right, Chad Finn, as I mentioned at the start of this podcast is the guest this week. I'll be hearing from him a lot. I'm going to try to have chat on even more regularly than he appears on this podcast normally. And Chad, well, first of all, the traditional welcome to the sports media podcast.
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