Sports Media Roundtable with Chad Finn of The Boston Glove and Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Episode 281 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with The Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal assistant managing editor/digital Austin Karp. In this podcast, the group discusses the NBA All-Star Game averaging a record-l0w 4.6 million viewers on TNT/TBS; what, if anything, can be done to bring back All Star Game viewers; the NBA’s regular-season viewership and average attendance up this year; the expectations for the launch of MLS/Apple Season Pass and what we expect from the look of the product and viewership; the viewership for the Daytona 500; how Daytona compares to other sports properties; the launch of the XFL; whether we think spring football can work; a potential Pac-12 media rights deal’; why the Pac-12 has little leverage over media companies; LIV golf’s prospects as a media play; Charles Barkley as a potential CNN analyst, and more. 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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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:10.2	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:12.1	Two guests this week.
0:13.4	They are regulars on this podcast.
0:15.7	Chad Finn is the Boston Globe sports media writer.
0:19.3	Austin Karp is the assistant managing editor slash digital for sports business journal.
0:25.4	And we are back to do a little roundtable discussion action on a number of subjects.
0:31.9	Chad and Austin, welcome back to the sports media podcast.
0:35.2	Thanks, Rich.
0:36.5	Loving the weather here in Charlotte, Rich.
0:39.2	I know.
0:40.4	How dare you, as I look outside my Toronto snowy place here.
0:45.6	Listen, God bless Charlotte, God's country.
0:48.2	All right, let's talk.
0:48.9	We're going to start with this, Austin.
0:50.4	Since you gave Chad and me a little bit of a rise there for your beautiful weather we're going to start with you um NBA All-Star game viewership came in and uh it was to be polite garbage uh 4.6 million viewers on tn tbs it's easily the least watched NBA All-Star game on record.
1:13.2	Thanks to Austin Karp, I know that it was down 27% from 2022, which had Winter Olympic competition.
1:21.2	The previous low was 5.9 million. So that is a massive, massive drop. I will get into some of the more good news for the
1:29.9	NBA. But also, this is a 10 poll. This is a 10 poll event for this league. It's an incredibly
1:36.5	sexy event for the league. Players love to be there and I don't blame them. It's a fun weekend for
1:40.9	them. And you do want at the end of all this to have some kind of signature event that you
1:48.6	could, you know, sort of put out there in the marketplace like, okay, these are our best
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