Why Sports Illustrated’s buyer is keeping the print magazine around
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Sports Illustrated has a new publisher, which says it will keep producing the magazine’s print editions. We’ll look into the value of a print product in the digital age. But first, Congress still needs to vote on a deal to keep the government funded until September. How likely is it to pass? And later, streaming platform Showmax is ramping up production and boosting a roster of African-made programs.
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| 0:24.0 | In a world of portable screens, |
| 0:30.0 | what is the value of a printed magazine? |
| 0:32.0 | I'm David Brancaccio from What is the value of a printed magazine? |
| 0:33.6 | I'm David Brancaccio from St. Paul today. |
| 0:36.1 | First, there's news congressional leaders have reached a deal that would keep the government |
| 0:39.8 | funded through September, but Congress still needs to vote on it. |
| 0:43.0 | For more, let's check in with Larry Adam, Chief Investment Officer at Raymond James, which is a marketplace underwriter. |
| 0:49.0 | Look, we're in an election year. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't think they're going to have a shutdown because I just don't think that |
| 0:54.1 | there's any appetite for that with the voting published. So I think they'll come to some type of agreement. |
| 0:59.1 | All right now the Federal Reserve, the guardians of interest rates, are just starting to meet now. They meet again tomorrow. the I think they'll meet they'll talk about what they're going to do potentially with their balance |
| 1:13.6 | sheet that's probably the bigger story coming out tomorrow and then they'll probably make the inclination |
| 1:18.0 | that they will probably start the cut rates in the summer. |
| 1:21.0 | Remember we were growing north of 4% two quarters ago it was down to 3% |
| 1:24.8 | this quarter I think we'll have a 2% handle so the economy is surely slowing I think |
| 1:29.2 | that they're going to want to take out some type of insurance policy during the |
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