Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Deich.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest this week, but an excellent one.

Brian Curtis is the editor at large at the Ringer.

Also the co-hosts of the Press Box podcast with David Shoemaker, a very, very popular podcast in the Ringer. Also the co-host of the Press Box podcast with David Shoemaker,

a very, very popular podcast in the media space.

We had a great conversation.

Brian Curtis, in my opinion,

best sports media feature writer who's ever existed,

just a fabulous writer and thinker.

We get into the NBA and do some hypotheticals in terms of what things

might look like with Amazon, ESPN, NBC as the future NBA rights holders. What would

happen with Charles Barkley, how consumers and fans might react. We get into Netflix after that,

in terms of Netflix,

potentially getting some Christmas Day NFL games and what does that mean for sort of big

picture Netflix getting into sports. And then we finish up with women's basketball,

WMBA season starting and what this means, what kind of viewership could they be looking at,

where should that league go? And then we got a little existential at the

end about uh you know whether uh whether journalism can make money uh in terms of or where i should be

specifically like can words make money can you make money on words these days or do you need to

be more like a lifestyle brand so brian curtis of the Ringer coming up on the sports media podcast.

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