Timhanlon

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

[Snicklink @snicklink]

Jensen Huang in: Three's Company 🥰

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

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.

https://t.co/HFrrQWPMsp

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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

[Alex Sherman @sherman4949]

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:

https://t.co/pBhK7im6KR

[Ken Reeves @KReevesCarverHS]

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!

[Timhanlon @Timhanlon]

"[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) https://t.co/Jwv2tsV5av

[Timhanlon @Timhanlon]

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) https://t.co/pPQ4ePRe95

[J.C. Bradbury @jc_bradbury]

Link to the podcast: https://t.co/BgU6uZx6h2

[J.C. Bradbury @jc_bradbury]

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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🏟️ 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!

[Timhanlon @Timhanlon]

Interesting how Carr is selectively amnesic on media law/precedent here; issue probably not explained in his Heritage Foundation guidebook? (via @tedstew) https://t.co/Hpyq8M0Zeb

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

CBS Sports, TNT Sports merger expected to be ‘a bloodbath,’ per report https://t.co/LwhFCxOGyE

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🏈 RIP #MikeDitka🕯

[Nick Tang @nickhtang]

Bingo!

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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!