John Ourand

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 41 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation with Sports Business Daily media reporter John Ourand. In this podcast Ourand and Deitsch discuss the NBA’s declining viewership at this point of the season; why big markets among the regional sports networks are so down including New York (down 41 percent on MSG Network), Chicago (down 36 percent on NBC Sports Chicago) and Boston (down 27 percent on NBC Sports Boston); why national games are down 18 percent on TNT and 17 percent on NBA TV; the early line on which TV networks will retain NFL rights and whether ABC will get a Super Bowl; a guess on the money the NFL will receive for its media rights; how the AAF is doing as a media play and whether AAF and the XFL can both survive with a spring schedule; the firing of Adnan Virk and Virk’s future; leaks at ESPN and whether they will continue, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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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0:00.0	Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. And my guess this week is a familiar one. It is Sports Business Daily Media reporter, John O'Rand. Actually, call him the guest is just weird. I guess this would be just a conversation.
0:17.6	John, of course, is a longtime guest of this podcast. Actually, he's like America's guest now when it comes to sports media podcast. I see him on every podcast at this point. But he has been a long time regular of this podcast, and we welcome him back. John, good to hear from you.
0:35.0	We'll travel. Richard, is there a rating on this?
0:38.3	I mean, it's just like a mature audiences only.
0:40.8	It's been getting kind of blue recently.
0:43.0	I will say this, John.
0:44.7	As, you know, at least the people who listen to this podcast know, Jim Miller was on a couple weeks ago, dropped an F-bomb within the first 30 seconds of that podcast.
0:53.9	And my God, the reaction to that was unbelievable.
0:57.2	Not just in downloads, but in people reaching out.
1:02.2	So, yeah, John, if you, I feel like there's a correlation between F-bombs and my download.
1:08.0	So if you could drop a couple fucks in this podcast, I really, I really, Lou and I would
1:12.3	appreciate it. We'll be able to pay our, darn it. We'll be able to pay our rent. All right. So let's
1:18.8	start off, John, with, I want to start off with the NBA, because you did a piece, I don't
1:25.1	know if it was this, we're taping on a Wednesday, Thursday, I don't know if it was
1:28.0	this week or last week, but the NBA's ratings are down this year. But what, not only nationally,
1:35.4	but what's really interesting is the regional sports networks. And I think this, again,
1:41.0	this is your story. They dropped 10% on average at the All-Star break.
1:45.4	And what's really jarring, I mean, it's sort of kind of obvious, but yet to see it remains jarring.
1:52.3	Just how far down, Nick's games are in New York, 41% on the MSG network.
1:58.3	Bulls games are on NBC Sports Chicago, 36%. And this was a surprise. Celtics
2:03.5	games down on NBC Sports Boston, 27%. When you have those big markets down, you're obviously
2:09.5	going to be down for the year. So let's start there, John. Just sort of top line thoughts on what's
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