Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this episode. She's been on this podcast before, and I consider her one of the foremost experts in the United States on streaming and how that relates to sports.

Julia Alexander is a media correspondent for Puck. She's also the former VP of Strategy

at Parrottanalyics, where she advised clients on the Tetonic shifts in tech media and

telecom. And she joins me once again on the sports media podcast.

Welcome, Julia.

Welcome back.

Thank you so much for having me, man.

How have you been since we chatted last?

I've been well.

Thank you.

I'm holding on winter never ends here in your former neck of the woods, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

So we are just waiting for April to come and hopefully it will come fast and quickly.

All right.

There's obviously been so much sort of happening in the media space.

And I think with you I want to start off, even though this will be more of a broad question, less about sports.

But we'll get

to the sports component of this.

But what were your initial thoughts when Paramount Skydance finally, you know, or, well, it is not

done yet, where Paramount Skydance ultimately, at least as of now, based on regulators, gets all the WBD properties

and its massive collection of cable networks for a astoundingly huge price.

We'll get into the Netflix part of this too soon, Julia.

But like just generally speaking as someone who writes and covers this stuff, like what was your, what are some of your initial thoughts on that?

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