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2 days ago |
puck.news | John Ourand
It didn’t take long for the T-word to make an appearance at the upfronts, which kicked off on Monday with NBC’s presentation at Radio City Music Hall. “This morning, as part of our show, we actually solved all of the tariff issues,” joked NBC’s ad chief Mark Marshall. He was alluding, of course, to this morning’s announcement of a reset in the trade war ignited by Trump’s 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | John Ourand
Despite the instability that has haunted the sports media industry over the past few years, we’re still very much in the golden age of sports storytelling. And if you ask Connor Schell—ESPN’s former content chief and co-creator of ESPN’s 30 for 30 series—it’s here to stay. He made a persuasive case on a recent episode of The Varsity, where he broke down the sports docu-boom.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | John Ourand
The Celtics’ decisive 31-point win over the Magic on Tuesday night marked the end of a sports media era, and I’m not talking about the Banchero–Suggs–Franz Little Three. Instead, it will go down as NBA TV’s final live playoff game, and maybe even the last exclusive NBA game to ever appear on the cable channel. So far, the NBA’s head honchos haven’t set a schedule, developed a plan, or even assigned a budget for the network next year.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | John Ourand
Over the past few decades, as the value of sports franchises has exploded, ass-covering local politicians have learned to model a familiar behavior any time one of their teams tries to whip up fervor in support of a new stadium: Publicly balking at any suggestion that public funds be used to build an arena for a billionaire owner.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | John Ourand
“Younger audiences today are gravitating to new platforms,” Bob Iger said from the stage Tuesday afternoon at SBJ’s annual World Congress of Sports conference in Nashville, slightly reframing a tectonic and still-ongoing behavioral shift as some sort of recent industry epiphany.
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The Varsity * Was Goodell’s Oval Office visit on Monday a peacekeeping mission for the league? * Big DTC numbers from Main Street Sports. * Guggenheim cheers MSG Network's restructure. * An ESPN ratings stat worth mentioning. * What's next for Meadowlark? Plus, Connor Schell,
RT @Ourand_Puck: New pod: The sports documentary godfather, Connor Schell, on why this golden age of nonfiction sports content isn't ending…