Sports Media Roundtable: Are the Knicks returning to the Finals of national interest, and Pat McAfee lands multiple sport commissioners.

About this episode

The episode features a roundtable discussion on the NBA Finals, viewership dynamics, and the impact of Pat McAfee in sports media.

Episode 626 of the Sports Media Podcast features a roundtable with Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch; Armand Broady, the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast and a contributor to SMW, and Derek Futterman, a multimedia writer and producer for Sports Media Watch. In this podcast we discuss the NBA Finals; why the Spurs being in the Finals would be much better for viewership; whether the Knicks have viewership juice because of New York City; why Wemby is such a TV draw; ESPN's Pat McAfee landing multiple league commissioners; why the league heads went on McAfee; why McAfee's juice continues growing at ESPN; the NHL having a renaissance season; how much interest we have in the Rafa Nadal doc on Netflix, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

People in this episode

Guests: Jon Lewis, Armand Broady, Derek Futterman

Topics covered

• NBA Finals
• viewership
• Pat McAfee
• NHL renaissance
• Rafa Nadal documentary

Keywords

• NBA
• viewership
• Pat McAfee
• NHL
• Rafa Nadal
• sports media
• New York Knicks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ESPN, Sports Media Watch

Products: Netflix

Places: New York City

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