Sports Media Roundtable with John Ourand and Chad Finn & Caps beat writer Isabelle Khurshudyan

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Episode 10 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Sports Business Daily media writer John Ourand and Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn, and a one-on-one conversation with Washington Post Capitals reporter Isabelle Khurshudyan. In this podcast, Ourand and Finn discusses the 2026 World Cup being awarded to the U.S., Canada and Mexico and what that means for English-speaking rights-holder Fox Sports; the impact of Fox Sports getting the 2026 tournament without an open bid; the perception of Fox Sports when it comes to its golf and global soccer coverage; Comcast’s attempts for the assets owned by 21st Century Fox and what that would mean for two dozen regional sports networks owned by Fox Sports; the 2018 NBA Finals viewership; what the NBA offseason means for interest in the sport among rightsholders; whether LeBron James will head to Boston, and much more. Khurshudyan discusses covering a Stanley Cup champion; why the Caps celebration has gone national; how much being fluent in Russian has helped her covering the NHL; the meaning of the Washington Post having six women leading beats in the sports department; whether it was intimidating to join the Post as an intern; translating Russian television for Post editor Marty Baron; how she procured an assignment to work in in the Moscow Bureau of the Washington Post; her story from Moscow on the #MeToo movement being mocked in Russia because of deeply patriarchal attitudes and the country's domestic violence legislation, and much 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. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:07.3	Coming up, we start with a roundtable. Chad Finn, the sports media writer and general columnist of the Boston Globe, and John Orand, the sports media writer for Sports Business Daily and Sports Business Journal.
0:18.7	They are regulars when it comes to this podcast. And we discuss
0:22.1	many things, but we lead with the big news today. And that is the United States, Mexico and
0:29.5	Canada, getting the 2026 World Cup. And what that means for Fox Sports, who has the English
0:36.8	speaking rights to that tournament, that is a major, major coup for Fox Sports, which they got without the bidding being open.
0:46.2	So we get into all that, discuss as well Fox's Big Month coming up, the Fox Comcast Disney situation as well as the NBA deal that Turner
0:57.9	and ESPN signed. Then Isabel comes on and discusses her capital's coverage, which has been
1:03.9	phenomenal and just the crazy amount of attention nationally that that team has gotten since they've
1:09.3	won the Stanley Cup, as well as what was an
1:12.2	incredibly interesting experience for Isabel, and that is being part of the Moscow Bureau of the
1:17.6	Washington Post and some of the stories that she covered there, non-sports stories.
1:21.5	So John O'Rand, Chad Finn, Isabel, Khrushudian, all coming up on the sports media podcast with
1:27.1	Richard Deich.
1:27.7	All right.
1:28.5	And as promised, we bring in John O'Rand of the Sports Business Daily Journal and Chad
1:33.5	Finn of the Boston Globe.
1:35.5	John, how are you this morning?
1:37.4	Artie, are you feeling okay, man?
1:39.2	You're usually like one take, Richard.
1:41.7	This is an intro that's taken.
1:43.5	I'm looking seven minutes I've been on the
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