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Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers. You can join them here. Now, on to the news... SI's choice of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander stands out amongst award selections SI photos from their pick of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. (Clay Patrick McBride/Sports Illustrated.) There are many different publications and organizations that pick a sports figure or figures of the year. While it's incredibly difficult to compare athletes across sports,...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is for our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Five of our top premium posts so far Thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone who's been on this fully-independent sports media ride with me so far, and I hope you have a wonderful New Year! In the wake of our September launch, I've picked up quite a few premium subscribers, so to end out this year, I wanted to look back at five of the premium posts I've written thus far. Some of...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all those who celebrate! This Bucholtz Sports Media post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who make this all work. You can join them here. Now, on to today's post! Five sports books to check out As I wrote last month to introduce this occasional book discussion series, I've long been obsessed with books of all sorts. And the sports world alone is filled with fascinating ones. I'm planning to keep highlighting as many as I can, from...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is for our premium subscribers; you can join them here for $5 a month. Now, on to the news... Three perspectives on the ESPN/Athletic Director Simulator 4000 controversy Intro pages for Matt Brown's Athletic Director Simulator 4000 (L) and ESPN's athletic director simulator (R). One of the most unusual sports media and business stories of the last while comes from ESPN launching a text-based "athletic director simulator" game on their website...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media, your independent guide to the wide world of sports business and sports media. This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who make this whole project tick. You can join them here (and support independent media) for just $5 a month. Now, on to the news... Main Street Sports might shutter if DAZN deal falls through, which would add to a decade of RSN drama A FanDuel Sports Network logo. (Sourced from Barrett Media.) One of the most...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here for just $5 a month. Now, let's get to the news... Why Jon Sumrall's dual Tulane-Florida role wouldn't have worked for Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss Jon Sumrall in an Oct. 2024 press conference (Tulane Green Wave on YouTube.) This year's wild 12-team version of the College Football Playoff kicks off Friday night with Alabama-Oklahoma, one of four first-round games across...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers; you can join them here for just $5 a month. Now, on to the news... Sports viewing hits remarkable November highs Measurement company Nielsen has been putting out public month-by-month analyses of U.S. TV and streaming viewership data under their The Gauge label since 2021, and there are often some fascinating elements in those. Their latest, published Tuesday, has some especially notable sports...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here for $5 a month or $50 a year. We have a bunch of different sports business stories to cover today, so we're going back to The Five format for that. 1. Prime Video Thursday Night Football numbers continue to impress A Thursday Night Football broadcast from December 29, 2022. (Kit Karzen/Prime Video.) Thursday Night Football has gone through a lot of evolutions over the...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here for $5 a month or $50 a year. This is an unusual one, spotlighting five podcast episodes from Steve Bennett of The Sports-Casters over the years, many of which may be of interest to anyone curious about the sports media realm. Five Sports-Casters episodes well worth checking out One of the podcasts I've long enjoyed in the sports media space is Steve Bennett's The...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media. This post is exclusively for our premium subscribers; you can join them here for just $5 a month. Now, on to the news... Paramount's hostile bid for all of WBD sets up two different visions of the future for TNT Sports Paramount, Netflix, and WBD logos. As discussed here last week, while Netflix's accepted $82.7 billion USD bid for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets doesn't include WBD's linear assets (including most of TNT Sports),...