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All things media + future: A little @McKinsey; a lot @VertereGroup. And a pod @GoodSeatsStill! ➡️ More active on Blue!

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First at FOS: The CW is eyeing more College Football Playoff games and TNT Sports rights. With Skydance carrying nearly $80 billion in debt, the network is pitching its 100-million home reach to leagues whose rights may become available. frontofficesports.com/articl…
The CW Eyes TNT Sports Rights and More CFP Games

The CW Eyes TNT Sports Rights and More CFP Games

The CW’s Michael Perman says the network is eyeing NHL and French Open rights from TNT Sports, plus more College Football Playoff games.

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🏒 He bought an NHL team with money he didn’t have. Author Nicholas Mennuti joins the show to unpack the unbelievable rise and fall of John Spano - and how the New York Islanders let him through the door; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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🏒 An $80 million loan, a made-up fortune & an NHL team desperate to believe. Nicholas Mennuti breaks down how John Spano pulled off the sports-business con of a lifetime; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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🏒 #RIP Ron Duguay
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Big story in the world of media and sports: ABC affiliates are not happy with Disney’s extreme multi platform plan to showcase and monetize the Super Bowl. Story here: cnbc.com/2026/10/22/disneys-…
Disney’s multiplatform Super Bowl plan frustrates ABC affiliates

Disney’s multiplatform Super Bowl plan frustrates ABC affiliates

Disney is airing the Super Bowl on ABC, ESPN, Disney+, ESPN2, ESPNU, and NFL Network, to the chagrin of local station affiliates.

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Season 3 Premiere ended on quite the heavy note with James Whitmore (playing Jake Reeves), who Ken Howard would work with again, years later, on "The Practice."
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🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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"[I]nvestors, at this point, appear to believe he wildly overpaid for the deal — that the newly merged company, dubbed Skydance Corp., is worth nowhere near the $78 billion in cash Paramount shelled out for WBD." (@xpangler) variety.com/2026/film/news/s…
Skydance’s Market Value Is Currently Less Than Half What Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount...

Skydance’s Market Value Is Currently Less Than Half What Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount...

Skydance has a market cap of less than $40 billion -- less than half the value of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount prior to the merger.

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Wait, I thought SCOTUS said in Loper Bright (2024) that the courts now *could* exercise independent judgement over an agency's ambiguous federal statute? Are we somehow back to the Chevron deference again? (@AbbieVanSickle) nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/po…
Supreme Court Again Sides With Republicans in Political TV Ad Fight

Supreme Court Again Sides With Republicans in Political TV Ad Fight

The Trump administration had filed an emergency application asking the justices to intervene in a long-running dispute over political ad rates.

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Link to the podcast: goodseatsstillavailable.com/…
EPISODE 466: “This One Will Be Different”: The Stadium Subsidy Game - With J.C. Bradbury — Good...

EPISODE 466: “This One Will Be Different”: The Stadium Subsidy Game - With J.C. Bradbury — Good...

Publicly financed stadiums have been sold for generations as civic investments, economic engines, and catalysts for growth. Yet again and again, the promises change while the underlying economics...

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I'm the guest on the Good Seats Still Available podcast this week, discussing my new book This One Will Be Different. Check it out!
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🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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🏟️ Are modern sports teams becoming real-estate companies with franchises attached? Economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury examines mixed-use districts, stadium subsidies & the business model behind them; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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🏟️ Why do cities keep spending hundreds of millions on stadiums when the economic evidence says they rarely pay off? Sports economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury on why the same pitch keeps working; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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Interesting how Carr is selectively amnesic on media law/precedent here; issue probably not explained in his Heritage Foundation guidebook? (via @tedstew) deadline.com/2026/10/fcc-liv…
FCC Chairman Declines To Say If Broadcasters Can Air Live Execution

FCC Chairman Declines To Say If Broadcasters Can Air Live Execution

It's doubtful that the networks would decide to air the execution, anyway.

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CBS Sports, TNT Sports merger expected to be ‘a bloodbath,’ per report awfulannouncing.com/paramoun…
CBS Sports, TNT Sports merger expected to be 'a bloodbath,' per report

CBS Sports, TNT Sports merger expected to be 'a bloodbath,' per report

The merger of CBS Sports and TNT Sports is expected to be "a bloodbath," according to a sports media executive.

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🏈 RIP #MikeDitka🕯
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Bingo!
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to me, should be a two-way street - but that would be too strategic/rational for a giant building that is ablaze with massive debt
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🏀 From “We Got Next” to an explosive 30th season few could have predicted: "The W" auhor Tamryn Spruill joins to explore how the WNBA survived its growing pains, lean years & repeated doubts about whether it could last; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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Need some relaxation? Well, pour your favorite beverage or grab your favorite smoke and take a trip with me and these sweet bastards to falsetto heaven.
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