About this episode

The episode discusses audience numbers for NCAA basketball and features an interview with NBC Sports' John Fanta about March Madness.

On this week's pod, host and SBJ media reporter Austin Karp discusses the big audience numbers for college basketball’s regular season and the conference tournaments. Karp also looks at the healthy prospects for the WNBA with a CBA done, how the WBC delivered big numbers and the PWHL getting its first national TV deals done in the U.S. Plus, with the NCAA Tournament underway, NBC Sports’ John Fanta comes on to talk about the broader college hoops landscape.

People in this episode

Host: Austin Karp

Guest: John Fanta

Topics covered

• NCAA basketball
• WNBA
• WBC
• PWHL
• March Madness
• audience numbers
• sports media

Keywords

• NCAA basketball
• March Madness
• WNBA
• WBC
• PWHL
• audience numbers
• sports media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WNBA, WBC, PWHL, NBC Sports

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