The Sporting Class: What the NBA and WNBA’s Record-Setting TV Deals Mean

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Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Sporting Class! Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper and Nothing Personal’s David Samson are back with another episode with host of Pablo Torre Finds Out ... Pablo Torre! It’s time for more NBA TV rights talk! It looks like NBC, ESPN, and Amazon have won the battle, even though Warner Bros. Discovery is trying to fight. What does the big money mean? Let’s take a look at the valuations of media rights deals and what comes next for sports leagues. Why is Knicks owner James Dolan so mad about it? He sent a letter to the league and is furious with the new NBA media rights deal. Why was he the only owner to vote against this new deal? We finally have seen some numbers on what’s happening with the WNBA. It’s a major increase. Welcome to the billion club! How will this new money impact the league? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	You represented everything that you've come to love.
0:10.0	Right after this ad.
0:15.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. work. about that really big shark. No not her the forest. She's automating
0:34.4	invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall.
0:37.8	Quickbooks to save you up to eight hours a week so you could bring your
0:41.6	vision to life. That's how you business differently.
0:44.4	Into its QuickBooks.
0:45.6	I do want to acknowledge David that the real star of the show the sporting class has
0:57.8	been John Skipper's voice.
1:01.6	It does a lot. I would not have said such a thing.
1:05.0	And what because of the tone or the content?
1:09.0	Well, we can get to the content but it is the drawl
1:13.4	a web and an allegedly weaponized draw all
1:17.7	that allows John to be every man and also the epitome of the subject of a rich guys only fans which is what I call the sporting class in reality
1:27.4	He's liked more because of his accent
1:29.7	Absolutely I'm just channeling who you probably someone that almost no one who listens to this will remember
1:35.7	Senator Sam Irving who was only Watergate committee and used to start at least one question a day with, well you know, I'm just a
1:46.2	dumb country lawyer. But where I come from in North Carolina, we would just call that common sense.
1:52.2	Well, I'm sorry that my distinguished friend from Florida does not approve of my method of examining the witness.
1:59.0	I'm an old country lawyer and I don't know the fine ways to do do it I just have to do it my way.
2:03.7	That's how you live your life it's done well for you yeah it's all I got it's all I got
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