Why The Paris Olympics Have Soared In Viewership
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 418 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable discussion with Austin Karp, managing editor/newsletters for Sports Business Journal and A.J. Perez, a senior reporter for Front Office Sports. In this podcast we discuss the viewership for the Paris Olympics; what has worked with NBCU’s coverage and what hasn’t; Charles Barkley staying with WBD and the WSJ saying the company is exploring for Barkley a show that would allow him to talk about other sports that TNT and its sister channels carry, including hockey, college football and basketball, and Major League Baseball; where WBD is right now; the prospects of Venu this fall and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:13.7 | Two guests this week. |
| 0:15.3 | First up, Austin Karp, a regular on this podcast, managing editor slash newsletters for |
| 0:20.6 | Sports Business Journal and A.J. Perez, who I believe has been on this podcast, editor slash newsletters for sports business journal and a j |
| 0:22.2 | perrez who i believe has been on this podcast not a ton of times but certainly before he is a |
| 0:26.1 | senior writer for front office sports uh check out his always excellent work there and with that |
| 0:33.6 | welcome austin welcome a j thanks for having me there let's start here i'm gonna start with you |
| 0:38.1 | austin and you can follow up uh j um you know we're taping this thursday afternoon uh in a couple hours |
| 0:45.2 | the additional nbc viewership for another day will come austin but last i saw i think after 12 |
| 0:52.4 | days they had average. |
| 0:55.3 | And again, as we've said on multiple podcasts, they're rolling up their viewership this year between prime time and the other day parts. |
| 1:03.2 | But with all the roll up, they're averaging 32.2 million viewers over the first 12 days of the Olympics. |
| 1:09.4 | Even though it's not an apples to apples comparison, |
| 1:12.0 | it's an apples to baguettes comparison. |
| 1:14.8 | There's no way not to give them props. |
| 1:17.6 | The Olympics have been a hit. |
| 1:20.1 | The numbers are really, really strong for NBC. |
| 1:24.2 | And even if you just want to sort of make it as a vibes play, |
| 1:27.0 | these Olympics have |
| 1:27.7 | had phenomenal vibes. So let's do viewership before we do production and programming. Austin, |
| 1:33.5 | what do you make of the viewership numbers as we are on the final Thursday of the Olympics? |
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