NFL viewership talk with John Ourand and authors Seyward Darby and Corey Sobel

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Episode 113 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is John Ourand, the media reporter for Sports Business Daily. He is followed by writer Seyward Darby, the author of “Sisters In Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism” and writer Corey Sobel, the author of “The Redshirt,” selected for the 2020 Long List of the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Darby and Sobel are married. In this podcast Ourand and Deitsch discuss the seven game windows for the NFL to start the season, which averaged 15.8 million viewers and was down 9% from 17.3 million last year; the mega-viewership for Fox national window, which drew 25.8 million for Bucs-Saints and was the most-watched Week 1 game for Fox in four years; NFL viewership issues in New York and L.A.; what we expect from the Las Vegas market this year as a ratings play; the Big Ten consulting with network partners such as Fox and ESPN before making its decision to play football this fall; whether ESPN and Fox will cover COVID issues during a broadcast; the Eagles and Fox Bet signing a multiyear sponsorship deal and ESPN’s deals with Caesars Entertainment, William Hill U.S. and DraftKings; the Peacock streaming service; how PR departments deal with politicization of their viewership numbers amd more. Both Darby and Sobel discusses their books, and how they found the current climate to sell a book; Darby’s examination of women as a driving engines of white supremacist hatred; what inspired Sobel to write a fictional novel about college football players; Darby on whether hate has increased or whether our awareness to hate has increased; Sobel on college football being played this year; where Darby’s optimism lies when it comes to hatred in America; what is next for both. 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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0:28.7	everybody this is richard dach and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Anthony and Sean Cherry. Two segments this week, three guests. I think you're going to enjoy these conversations. First up, John O'Rand. He is a regular on this podcast, The Media Reporter for Sports Business Daily. We get into a lot of stuff,
0:55.5	a long discussion about NFL ratings, NFL viewership,
0:59.0	what we thought week one meant,
1:00.3	what we thought,
1:01.1	what we think might happen heading forward
1:03.4	and some of the potential problem areas
1:06.2	for the NFL when it comes to specific cities.
1:08.9	We also talk about the Big Ten returning and what that
1:12.3	meant for Fox and ESPN and Fox and ESPN consulting with Big Ten officials. Talked about
1:18.0	all these places that are sort of heading into gambling and sports gambling and maybe might not
1:25.8	be as big a gold rush as you may think.
1:28.6	O'Ran has some thoughts on that, Peacock Streaming Service, and then we get into some nonsense about PR departments for ESPN and otherwise.
1:37.2	They are followed by Sayward Darby and Corey Sobel.
1:42.3	Sayward Darby is the author of Sisters and Hate American Women on the front lines of white nationalism.
1:48.1	That book has been exceptionally reviewed in a lot of places in an incredibly important subject right now.
1:53.7	Corey Sobel is the author of The Red Shirt, which is a fictional novel about college football, and that has been selected for the 2020 long list of the Center for Fiction's first novel prize.
2:05.0	And we get in there, a married couple get into trying to sell a book in essentially in unprecedented times,
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