Sports Media Roundtable: Chad Finn, Jon Lewis, and Austin Karp

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Episode 527 of the Sports Media Podcast features Chad Finn of The Boston Globe, Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch and Austin Karp of the Sports Business Journal. In this podcast, we discuss the MLB All Star game as a media property; what a good ASG viewership number would be for the sport; the potential last year of the Home Run Derby for ESPN; the WNBA All Star Game and whether it can top last year's 3.4 million viewers; whether Caitlin Clark missing games makes her playing in the All Star Game less or more of a draw; Amazon and NBC's NBA hires; the phenomenal "Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story'" documentary airing on on National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 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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0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. We have a roundtable, big roundtable, three people on the roundtable today. Chad Finn, Boston Globe Sports columnist media writer.
0:56.9	John Lewis, founder and editor
0:58.2	of Sports Media Watch.
1:00.0	Austin Karp.
1:02.0	Assistant to the regional manager at Sports
1:04.0	Business Journal. I prefer the
1:05.9	Doe Fan, but if you want to call me that, that's fine.
1:08.3	What is the current title, Austin, the system
1:09.9	managing editor? Prince of Wales, Sultan of SWAT. We're going to go, how about, we'll go a managing editor. All right. Sultan of SWAT, that's very old school. All right, anyway, Austin Carprop of Clause from Sports Business Journal. We got a couple different topics on this one in a very quiet quite frankly weak in sports and we'll
1:29.6	finish up maybe with a quick talk on a great documentary uh jaws at 50 but i'll get i'll get
1:36.5	john and austin's uh take on jaws maybe in general i know chat and i have seen that film i would
1:42.9	have talked about Superman as well,
1:45.0	but I'm the only person who has seen it. Unlike Mike Francesa, I highly recommend it, although
1:51.7	I certainly recommend Mike Francesa's review of it, which you can find online. Quite amusing.
1:59.8	The sports media version of Mystery Science Theater 3,000. That's right. Mike, Mike Frances, I told Speerberg, don't use the shark in this scene. Anyway, yeah, so Frances's, Frances's review is good. But Superman is good. I recommend it. I'm not a bit. And by the way,
2:17.5	that's a recommendation from someone who doesn't watch a lot of superhero films. I'm much more
2:21.6	in the Star Wars universe. Super superhero stuff is not really my thing. But it's excellent. It's also
2:26.2	not even close to overtly political. So, you know, don't believe everything you read in terms
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