Live From Las Vegas: Oscars Pressure, Late-Night TV, and the Vegas Sports Boom With Jimmy Kimmel

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Live from Las Vegas, Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw and special guest Jimmy Kimmel to discuss the state of sports television, the NFL's dominance in an otherwise struggling television landscape, Las Vegas as a Super Bowl venue, the potential move of the Oakland A's to Vegas, the hardest part about hosting the Oscars, the future of late-night television, and more. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! thetown@spotify.com Host: Matt Belloni Guests: Lucas Shaw and Jimmy Kimmel Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who cares about your team winning the Super Bowl when your team could win the off season?
0:05.0	My name is Danny Hyphitz and I host the Ringer NFL Draft Show with Danny Kelly, Ben Solack, and Craig Horlebeck.
0:12.0	We cover trades, free agency, the draft, obviously.
0:15.0	We cover quarterbacks and there are a lot of good quarterbacks this year.
0:19.0	And the teams at the top of the draft, Washington, New England, Chicago, big teams with big histories.
0:24.6	Listen to the Ringer NFL Draft Show on Spotify.
0:27.6	All right.
0:41.7	Thanks, everyone, for coming out.
0:43.7	This is a great space.
0:45.4	My name is Matt Bellany.
0:46.7	This is Lucas Shaw.
0:48.4	I'm the host of The Town, which is produced by The Ringer and Puck, and we are very happy to be here.
0:55.9	Thanks to our hosts, Endeavor, and TKO, and thanks to their team for making this all very easy for us.
1:03.5	Mora, Marie, Tiffany, many more.
1:07.4	There are many more.
1:08.2	Do you have any sponsors to think?
1:09.8	Have you hit that?
1:10.2	No, no, we're good.
1:11.0	I think we're okay right now.
1:12.4	So Lucas and I are going to talk for 10, 15 minutes just on some newsy topics in the sports media
1:18.5	world.
1:19.5	And then we're going to bring out a special guest who is waiting in the back.
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