The sports media landscape of 2024

 

Tonight in Unpacks: This week’s Sports activities Media Podcast delves into all issues media in an entertaining and informative dialogue with The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch.

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Additionally tonight:

• Discussion board: Rising storylines as Q1 wraps up
• MLB companions begin season with TV uptick
• Iowa-LSU shatters girls’s hoops document
• Op-ed: Scholar athletes and the influence of legalized betting on faculty sports activities

Hearken to SBJ’s hottest podcast, Morning Buzzcast, the place Abe Madkour delves into Iowa-LSU girls’s hoops shattering information, Kansas Metropolis voters dealing blow to the Royals and Chiefs, Endeavor going non-public and extra.

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On this week’s Sports Media Podcast, The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch joins SBJ’s Austin Karp to debate the sports activities media panorama. They dig into the boys’s and ladies’s NCAA tournaments, sharing their takeaways from the large numbers coming from the ladies’s facet and the thrill across the semifinal matchup pitting UConn’s legacy in opposition to Iowa and Caitlin Clark’s reputation. Might it outdraw the boys’s title sport? Karp and Deitsch have a look at what potential matchups may enhance viewership on the boys’s facet after final yr’s all-time low in UConn-San Diego State. 

The duo additionally have a look at the Masters, which will probably be Verne Lundquist’s fortieth and last broadcast from Augusta; the ability of quarterbacks on the NFL Draft; the way forward for “Good Morning Soccer”; and WrestleMania. 

The present wraps up with SBJ faculty author Ben Portnoy wanting ahead to his first journey to the boys’s Ultimate 4.