How Sports Ate TV. Plus: Journalism’s Triumphant Return!

The Press Box

The Ringer

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hello, media consumers! On this Press Box Monday edition, Bryan and David discuss Journalism, the official horse of The Press Box, winning the Preakness (1:00) before discussing the end of TNT’s era of broadcasting the NBA and what they’ll miss most about it (6:00). Then, they discuss the career of legendary WWE announcer Jim Ross after learning about his colon cancer diagnosis (18:00) before digging into some recently published data about TV ratings and the ways in which sports have completely consumed them (23:00). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, Media Piss Test, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Folks, it's Jay Kyle Mann from The Ringer.
0:03.0	And as always, basketball is so freaking, freaking good.
0:07.5	It's so good, in fact, that the Ringer's NBA draft show is finally back just in time for a ramp up to June.
0:13.4	We've got you covered every week as we take an in-depth look at who's got next for the NBA's future.
0:19.4	We'll talk the rising and falling stocks of the best and the brightest prospects in the 2025 NBA draft class.
0:25.7	From Cooper Flag to Dylan Harper to Vijay Edgecom and more.
0:29.8	Tap in with me on the Ringer NBA Draft Show every Wednesday and make sure that you follow, subscribe, and hit us with those five-star ratings.
0:43.5	David?
0:44.6	Yes.
0:49.1	What a weekend for those of us who love journalism.
0:51.1	I wondered how you were going to phrase that.
0:53.8	I'm glad we got that out of the way. Yes, it was a great one.
0:59.8	That little son of a gun did it, didn't he? He did. He won the preakness by half a length.
1:08.6	Despite being bumped, or I guess this is the only in horse racing term, jostled by goal-oriented.
1:13.3	Yeah. That was one of the most exciting television moments.
1:20.2	I've had in a very long time, which probably says something about how the Cowboys and the Democrats have done recently.
1:27.1	But man, I was genuinely out of my seat jumping up and down, hugging my kids.
1:29.9	I was excited for journalism.
1:32.3	Yeah, well, good reason.
1:34.3	Journalism's had a rough go of it lately.
1:36.1	Journalism has.
1:40.6	For more excitement, I want you to listen to the call from Larry Kalmus.
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