Mini-pod: How will the Paris Olympics do?
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This episode of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Austin Karp, managing editor/newsletters for Sports Business Journal and CNBC Sports Business reporter Alex Sherman. In this podcast, we discuss the Paris Olympics and whether we think it will rate viewership-wise; the celebrity push during the Games; whether Peacock can gain subscribers from it; the upcoming Olympic cycle and why it is advantageous for NBC Universal; the WNBA's media rights deal and what it means and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm your host, Richard Dites. |
| 0:13.4 | This is a mini pod, but the guests are not many at all. |
| 0:17.0 | They're giants in the space. |
| 0:19.2 | Austin Karp is the managing editor slash newsletters for the Sports Business Journal. |
| 0:23.6 | Alex Sherman is a CNBC sports business reporter. |
| 0:26.2 | Both of these gentlemen have been on this podcast many times. |
| 0:29.0 | They're excellent guests. |
| 0:30.1 | The big focus on this podcast will be about the Paris Olympics, but we'll get into a couple of other quick things. |
| 0:35.4 | At the end, one note, as we're taping this on Monday afternoon, |
| 0:42.6 | Warner Brothers Discovery is expected to send the NBA, |
| 0:47.6 | their formal, I don't know how it's sort of you'd phrase it, |
| 0:50.9 | but essentially their formal matching rights acknowledgement. |
| 0:56.0 | They clearly are going to match. |
| 0:58.4 | And then the NBA, my guess would be, we'll say, hey, we're going to review all this. |
| 1:02.5 | So we're not going to get into the NBA rights because the fact is things could change |
| 1:06.8 | in the next 12 to 24 hours. |
| 1:08.2 | But as we're taping this, that's where things stand. |
| 1:10.6 | And with that, I bring in Austin Karp and Alex Sherman. |
| 1:13.5 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:15.5 | Always a pleasure, Richard. |
| 1:17.6 | All right. |
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