Game on: Behind the sports betting boom

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Just in time for the NFL playoffs, sports betting is legal in New York. $600 million in bets were placed in the first week alone. Now that it’s legal in more than 30 states, Recode’s Peter Kafka dives into how the business works and how going legit might change the TV sports viewing experience. Getting in on the action: Action Network CEO Patrick Keane and Sports Illustrated’s Richard Johnson. Featuring: Patrick Keane (@phkeane), CEO of Action Network Richard Johnson (@RJ_Writes), writer for Sports Illustrated Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:33.3	This is Recode Media, Peter Kafka.
1:37.3	This week we are talking about sports and TV and the Internet and betting legal sports betting,
1:45.0	which has been in the US for a couple years now, three years actually,
1:48.0	and is spreading state by state.
1:50.0	It just got to New York, which was sort of a prompt for this conversation,
1:53.0	because if you live in New York, if you've watched TV in New York,
1:56.0	if you've turned on the internet in New York in the last couple of weeks,
2:00.0	you've seen a million different
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