Examining the NHL postseason and the NHL’s viewership numbers with ESPN’s Ryan Clark and Sports Business Journal’s Austin Karp

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Episode 295 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN national NHL reporter Ryan Clark and Austin Karp, managing editor/digital of Sports Business Journal. In this podcast, Clark discusses the league’s biggest storylines for the postseason; how a national writer decides on what to cover for the postseason; how much the ESPN name carries weight in hockey; being based in Seattle; the teams that are press friendly; how the war in Ukraine has impacted the season; Pride Night; Stanley Cup predictions; and more. Karp discusses the second season of the media rights deal the NHL has with Warner Bros. Discovery and ABC and ESPN; ABC/ESPN averaging 583,000 viewers for its regular season; how that number jumps when you exclude NHL vs. NFL windows; ABC’s NHL viewership; TNT averaging 364,000 viewers for its regular season games; what the numbers mean in context; the best Final matchup based on viewership, 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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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. It is one theme, though, and that is the NHL. First up is ESPN National NHL reporter Ryan Clark. He is followed by Austin Karp, managing editor slash digital of the Sports Business Journal.
0:26.6	Ryan comes on to discuss the biggest storylines for the postseason in the NHL,
0:31.2	how someone in his position in national NHL rider decides I want to cover for the postseason,
0:36.2	being based in Seattle, and what that means for him.
0:39.3	Ask him about some of the press-friendly teams in the league.
0:43.0	We get into discussion about Russia's invasion of the Ukraine and how that impacts the NHL, as well as Pride Night, and then talk a little Western Conference Stanley Cup predictions.
0:53.7	Austin then follows to talk about the NHL viewership this year with the second season of
1:00.6	the Meridiorites with Warner Brothers Discovery and ABC, SPN, Disney.
1:06.3	So we go through how the regular season numbers were for both entities, generally speaking,
1:12.3	flatten a little bit up.
1:14.0	But there are some caveats that tell a little bit of a better story.
1:17.4	So we get into ESPN and TNT's viewership.
1:21.3	We also talk about where we think or what we think would be the best finals matchup for
1:27.1	viewership.
1:28.3	So I think you'll appreciate that.
1:29.6	So if you're a hockey fan, you definitely will dig this.
1:31.9	If you're not a hockey fan, I still think it's interesting for you.
1:34.6	Ryan Clark of ESPN, Austin Karp of the Sports Business Journal coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:43.7	All right, as I said at the top, excited to have this gentleman back on this podcast, my former colleague at The Athletic.
1:51.1	It is ESPN national NHL reporter, Ryan Clark.
1:55.8	You can follow his work covering the NHL on multiple ESPN platforms.
2:00.4	Again, like I said, used to work with me at
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