Kavitha Davidson on declining Olympic viewership and how Simone Biles was covered

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode 153 of the Sports Media Podcast features Kavitha Davidson, a sports and culture writer for The Athletic and the host of Culture Calculus podcast. In this podcast Davidson and Deitsch discuss how much Olympics we are each watching; why the primetime viewership of the Tokyo Games is way down; how we viewed coverage of Simone Biles in different mediums; why the coverage actually holds well for the future; the story around Suni Lee; whether it is time for sports outlets to have a mental health sports reporter; the intersection of COVID and the NFL; whether baseball should have a bigger Olympic presence 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	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
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1:07.5	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antenetti.
1:12.4	One guest this week, where we'll do it sort of an abridged sports media podcast.
1:18.1	But I am very pleased to be joined by Kavitha Davidson, sports and culture writer for the athletic, host of the Culture Calculus podcast.
1:25.4	She is a regular on this podcast, and we will mostly do Olympics-based media talk as well
1:32.0	some Simone Biles talk.
1:33.9	Kavitha, how are you?
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