The 125 Most Influential People In Sports Business
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Episode 571 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Austin Karp, the sports media reporter for Sports Business Journal. In this podcast we discuss SBJ's "Influence 125" list, which looks at the most influential people in sports business over the last 25 years; how people were selected; how they determined which owners from each of the big sports should make the list; Bill Simmons being the only pure content creator on the list; how to think about powerful agents such as Nick Khan and Ari Emanuel; who might make such a list in 2040; the Big Ten Championship between Indiana and Ohio State averaging 18.3 million viewers; the regular season college football viewership numbers for each network that airs national games, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 1:07.6 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm your host, Richard Dodge. |
| 1:10.0 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 1:11.6 | One guest on this episode, been a roundtable. It's a regular Austin Karp. The fine sports media reporter and writer for Sports Business Journal. Welcome, Austin. |
| 1:22.6 | Glad to be back. Returning champion. Returning, yeah, multiple time returning champion champion all right so um it'll be a |
| 1:29.8 | little promotion for you on this this podcast for your place we're gonna start here we'll go into |
| 1:34.4 | it a little bit spj i thought this was really really interesting what you guys put out and i know |
| 1:38.7 | when you put this kind of project out it takes months there's a lot of people who put a lot of hard work into it. And so this |
| 1:46.7 | week, SPJ put out its influence 125 list, which is the most influential people in their |
| 1:54.2 | space over the past 25 years. So for instance, they didn't rank rank them which I think is smart having experience |
| 2:02.8 | many years of experience in this stuff you never win when you rank it's just it's it's |
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