ESPN’s David Purdum on sports gambling and Grant Wahl on the Super League and MLS media rights

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 140 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests — ESPN staff writer David Purdum and soccer writer Grant Wahl, the host of the Football With Grant Wahl podcast. In this podcast, Purdum discusses where the U.S. and Canada are regarding the number of places where sports gambling is legal; the interest in non-NFL betting; where legacy media outlets are today regarding sports gambling content on air and where they will be in a couple of years; how big players such as DraftKings are hunting for media entities; how he covers his beat and what he thinks are interesting stories; the limited value of pick segments on air beyond entertainment; whether Jake Paul-like events have a big gambling future; the NFL partnering with Caesars Entertainment, DraftKings and FanDuel and what it means, and much more. Wahl discusses the collapse of the Super League; what the Super League might have commanded in the open market as a media play; MLS going to market for a media deal and what it means; whether Fox still has long-term interest in MLS; the interest in soccer from the streaming services in the U.S. and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Audacy, 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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0:28.7	everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:40.5	My producers are Patrick and Dedanee and Sean Cherry.
0:43.3	Today, two guests.
0:44.9	First up, David Purdem.
0:46.7	He's a staff writer for ESPN who specializes in sports gambling.
0:51.6	And I find what he does just incredibly fascinating.
0:54.9	He sort of covers it as a journalistic enterprise.
0:58.5	And we talk about where we are nationally in the U.S.
1:00.7	regarding the number of states where sports gambling is legal,
1:05.3	what he's seeing regarding interest in different sports.
1:08.4	And then just sort of the media aspect of this and how legacy media
1:12.0	and others are trying to get into sports gambling. You know, obviously Barstool has been
1:18.8	incredibly successful in that space and getting young, mostly males with money to invest in their partnerships. And so it's a real interesting
1:30.8	space and obviously a growing space that everybody's trying to get paid for. So David Perdom starts
1:36.5	and he is followed by Grant Wall, who is of course the host of the football with Grant Wall
1:42.2	podcast, longtime Sports Illustrated writer, one of my
1:44.9	longtime colleagues. And we talk about the Super Bowl of the Super Bowl. We talk about the Super
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