Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host Richard Dyke.

My producers, Patrick Antonetti.

Two guests.

They are regulars.

It's been a bit.

I've been wanting to do a little bit of a roundtable for a week or so.

And I finally get to, is it, satiate or satiate my desires?

First up, Austin Karp, of course, longtime sports business journal editor and writer now the lead media writer

for that fine organization john lewis founder and editor sports media watch one of the if not

the preeminent sports viewership experts in the united states welcome austin welcome john thanks

for having me thanks Thanks, Richard.

All right. I want to, let's start with Red Zone. All right. I mean, my God. The story that

was sort of never ending for a 48-hour stretch here, obviously, people listening to this on Monday,

you will have experienced the Sunday Red Zone.

We are taping before the Sunday games.

So I can't talk about what the actual commercial load was,

but I think Austin, myself, and John have certainly reported and written on it where we

have a sense of this. But John, I'm going to start with you. Obviously, a very, very big new story

in our world where Scott Hanson reveals on the Pat McAfee show that Red Zone will have commercials

this year. I am sure the NFL did not plan for Scott Hansen

to reveal that, but the guy got asked the question and give him credit. He answered it honestly.

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