Is college basketball still a big draw in 2025 - and how networks should approach televising national anthems

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 482 of the Sports Media Podcast features a sports media roundtable with Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch, and Ben Koo, the owner and editor of Awful Announcing.Int this podcast, Lewis, Koo and Deitsch discuss the place men’s and women’s college basketball currently occupies in the sports media landscape; the viewership for men’s college basketball in 2025; why the men's tournament provides good viewership no matter the teams; the state of women’s college basketball as it relates to viewership; why we are all bullish on the sport as a media play; what a realistic final featuring Paige Beckers and Juju Watkins could draw; how the Home Run Derby would play on Netflix; whether it matters where the NFL Draft airs; how media companies that air sports should approach playing the national anthems of the U.S.. and Canada; why the anthem talk will be monetized and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 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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1:15.8	This is a sports media roundtable. Two guests, one familiar and one making his sports media
1:22.2	podcast debut. I mean, this probably will go up really high in his resume. I mean, what an
1:26.8	incredible honor. John Lewis is the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. That's the familiar name. Ben Koo
1:33.2	is the owner and editor of Awful announcing, obviously, I think a site that anybody listening to this
1:38.5	podcast knows. Awful announcing, I would say for people listening, check out their new daily newsletter the a block
1:46.1	which um has all sorts of stuff that awful announcing does obviously would sort of highlight
1:52.9	some of the notable things that are going on in sports media and of course obviously if something
1:58.2	crazy happens uh in sports television capital S capital T,
2:02.6	Benku and his group will have it.
2:05.2	And with that, welcome John, welcome Ben.
2:07.8	Hey, thanks for having me.
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