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

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Joined March 2008
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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. frontofficesports.com/articl…
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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
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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: cnbc.com/2026/10/22/disneys-…
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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!
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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!
🏟️ 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!
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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!
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🏈 RIP #MikeDitka🕯
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Bingo!
to me, should be a two-way street - but that would be too strategic/rational for a giant building that is ablaze with massive debt
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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!
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Need some relaxation? Well, pour your favorite beverage or grab your favorite smoke and take a trip with me and these sweet bastards to falsetto heaven.
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to me, should be a two-way street - but that would be too strategic/rational for a giant building that is ablaze with massive debt
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@Timhanlon enjoyed reading your column @TVREV: tvrev.com/news/what-happens-… Can you see more CBS local reporters showing up on CNN (instead of CNN sending their own correspondent) as a way for Skydance to cut costs?
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🏀 The WNBA’s current boom makes its survival look inevitable. It wasn’t. "The W's" Tamryn Spruill joins us to revisit 30 years of expansion, contraction, ownership struggles, media neglect — and persistence; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!
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📺DEBUT: ‘The Flintstones’ premiered 66 years ago, September 30, 1960, on ABC
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