Sports Media Nerdout with Austin Karp and Chad Finn
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Episode 436 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal managing editor/newsletters Austin Karp. In this podcast we examine the NFL’s viewership rate so far; Zach Lowe’s layoff and Adrian Wojnarowski’s retirement from ESPN, the NFL International Series; MLB’s postseason interest, the WNBA's viewership without Caitlin Clark, 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. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm your host, Richard Dyche. |
| 0:12.8 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:14.8 | Two guests on this episode, but they are the regulars. |
| 0:18.2 | Boston Globe, sports media writer and columnist Chad Finn and sports business journal managing |
| 0:23.3 | editor slash newsletters. |
| 0:25.1 | Austin Karp and we are here for about a half hour of a sports media nerd out talk. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome back, Chad and Austin. |
| 0:32.6 | Thanks, Rich. |
| 0:34.0 | Got my nerd out on. |
| 0:36.2 | All right. |
| 0:37.8 | Where should we start? |
| 0:39.0 | I guess let's start with, I mean, it's just always good to sort of take the temperature of this a couple of weeks in. |
| 0:45.3 | I'll sort of start with you, Austin. |
| 0:46.7 | So where is the NFL in terms of viewership over the first, what am we in? |
| 0:54.5 | We're week, week five, correct? |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.6 | Okay, week five with, with my own sort of quick note that the presidential election cycle, |
| 1:06.8 | I think this is something I predicted as well, has not taken any kind of big dent out of NFL viewership. |
| 1:14.8 | Now, we are heading to October, and this is obviously going to be sort of the craziest month of the presidential election season. |
| 1:20.8 | But so far, what has traditionally been a trend for the NFL, it hasn't necessarily killed it, correct? |
| 1:26.7 | Not at all. I mean, you know, |
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