The World's Fastest-Growing Sports Media Podcast with @SportsTVRatings Robert Seidman, @SportsTVRatings

A solo podcast.

Richard Deitsch unintentionally inspired me to test something out with podcasting production workflow, so after nearly 3 years a podcast. Helping with the test was former regular Ryan Glasspiegel, now a sports/entertainment writer for the New York Post.

Topics covered include NBA ratings and USA Network as a big sports channel. And we had an in-depth conversation about Nielsen’s out of home viewing measurement which Ryan actually described as nerdy. Also some off-the-cuff chatter about Big 10 and NBA media rights.

Audio quality was part of the test. Sadly, I failed that part of the test but I am publishing anyway because Ryan still sounded good.

 

Tony Reali puts himself out there openly talking about life and dealing with anxiety. And he does it in an amazingly accessible way. I wanted to capture some of that experience on a podcast.







Most of the podcast focuses on some of Tony’s struggles and thinking on eating and weight management. But there are stories, a very brief but very solid Wilbon imitation and we finish up with Tony talking about new talent acquisition for “Around the Horn.”

Great to finally have Ben on the podcast! Ben has reported extensively about ESPN & politics in the aftermath of Dan Le Batard’s comments. The bulk of the podcast is on those topics but we talked about a few other sports media topics (DAZN’s “ChangeUp”, Sunday Ticket and The Athletic) in the last 1/3rd of the podcast.







Ben’s recent deep dive on ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro and ESPN’s policy around politics. (htps://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/26/jimmy-pitaro-espn-president-politics/?utm_term=.41a350bb2e2c )







Ben’s story on DAZN’s “ChangeUp” and its economics (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/05/09/dazns-baseball-show-is-redzone-mlb-test-network/?utm_term=.d76c07907808)







Ben’s full story archive at The Washington Post.







Ben on Twitter: @benjstrauss

With the Women’s World Cup Soccer tournament beginning it was a pleasure to have the soccer beat writer from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jonathan Tannenwald, back on the podcast.







Topics discussed include the state of soccer, the state of MLS, how mostly it’s old white men like Zlatan Ibrahimović moving the MLS TV viewing and not the up and coming young Americans and South Americans, what it would take to get me to watch MLS, thoughts on Turner Sports’ coverage of UEFA Champions League. And of course, a big preview of the Women’s World Cup which includes the downsides of remote productions, Jonathan’s prediction to win it all, ratings predictions vs. 2015 and teams to watch.







Jonathan’s archive at the Inquirer (https://www.inquirer.com/author/tannenwald_jonathan/)







Jonathan on Twitter: @thegoalkeeper

A pleasure to have ESPN EVP of Programming & Scheduling Burke Magnus back on the podcast. Topics discussed include: will the launch of ACCN mean fewer ACC games on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News and ESPNU, the demands of Burke’s job, NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s comments about the NBA games being a TV show, what matters most in NBA finals (more games, not who’s playing), how the rise of OTT services (not just ESPN+) have changed the content acquisition landscape and how we’re still a ways off from seeing a full ESPN OTT offering. We conclude with my encouraging Burke to solve the empty seat situation on TV with CGI (Burke pushed back and imagined all the exploding heads in the media if they did it) and a Fox-friendly World Series prediction. Stay through the goodbyes for Burke’s true feelings on baby-fying the ESPN studio shows.