Mini-pod: Jon Lewis and Austin Karp on NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Final viewership

This episode of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Austin Karp, managing editor/newsletters for Sports Business Journal and Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we dissect the five-game Celtics-Mavericks NBA Finals which averaged 11.31 million viewers on ABC, down 3% in viewership from a five-game Nuggets-Heat series last year; how to analysis this series from a viewership perspective; where the NBA Finals are in the 2020s; LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry combined for a single playoff victory; the Oilers-Panthers series for the NHL; Connor McDavid in front of the U.S. audience; what a Game 7; WBD’s mix and match strategy; what rights they might want; Caitlin Clark and WNBA viewership; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

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