Will people watch the XFL?

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Episode 52 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests: First up is a sports media roundtable with Washington Post sports and media writer Ben Strauss of The Washington Post and Hannah Withiam, an associate editor at The Athletic. They are followed by Armen Keteyian, the longtime broadcast television journalist and an anchor and executive producer for The Athletic. In this podcast, Strauss, Withiam and Deitsch discuss the XFL’s media deal including the announcement that more than half of the XFL's games will be on broadcast television as part of deals the league announced with Fox and ESPN; whether spring football can be successful as a sports media play; how ESPN and Fox might approach production; what we think of ESPN’s decision to name Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland as the Monday Night Football booth; how long we expect ESPN management to give the new MNF booth; the Sinclair Broadcast Group buying 21 regional sports networks from Disney for $10.6 billion; what Sinclair owning the linear TV and streaming rights to the games of 42 pro teams might mean for fans of those teams; the WNBA’s new deal with CBS Sports Network; the WNBA marketing itself as a movement; how the WNBA will do without some of its major stars playing this year; how we viewed the Athletic’s panel on students entering the sports media business and much more. Keteyian discussed the debut of The Athletic’s video initiative including profiles of Christian Yelich, P.K. Subban, and three-part series on sports betting (Big Bets on High Tech); how and why the video subjects were chosen; skepticism when it comes to short-form video online, and how to figure out how long to make a digital video. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:09.0	My producer is always is Terence Malagon.
0:11.0	Coming up on today's episode, we have two segments.
0:15.0	First up, it is a sports media roundtable with Ben Strauss.
0:19.0	He is the Sports and Media Reporter for the Washington Post, and
0:23.5	Hannah Withiam, who is an associate editor for the athletic, out of the athletic NYC and the
0:28.5	Athletic Buffalo. She also formerly worked at the New York Post and has been a guest on this
0:33.0	podcast before. We discuss the XFL's new media deal. Huge news for them. They'll be on broadcast TV
0:40.2	for 24 of their 43 games, including coverage on ABC and Fox. So really big deal for them. And we go
0:49.7	into all sorts of issues on that broadcast deal, whether we think spring football can be a successful
0:56.3	media play and what ESPN and Fox may plan for that.
0:59.7	That's followed by a discussion on Monday Night Football.
1:02.0	We talk about the Sinclair Group, buying the R.Sense from Disney and what that means.
1:07.2	And then we finish up with a conversation about the piece that I did where I interviewed
1:11.9	11 students who are graduating this year who are planning to go into the sports media and how we
1:17.6	saw that piece and how we saw the optimism of those students. So I think you'll enjoy that. That's
1:22.5	followed by Armand Katan, the longtime sports investigative reporter. He's now an anchor, an executive producer for the athletic.
1:30.7	And this week debuts the athletics original video series, no ads, by the way. So you're not going to get any pop-up ads there.
1:37.7	And the first three pieces are profiles of Christian Yelich, P.K. Suban, and a three-part series on sports betting. And so we, Armin and I just have a discussion on,
1:48.1	you know, how he came to these subjects, what he thinks of short form video online and can
1:53.4	it be successful and how one comes about just figuring out what the length is when it comes to
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