probably more eyeballs in general; maybe grow the general audience for Tru w/ a premier property; perhaps having an outlet on standby for game 2 if they run into a weather delay or long overtime in game 1?

They might have different ad inventory too, I don't know if the same ones air on each network

on a roll for Sandor 🧑‍🎄 good on ya buddies👍👊

I've never seen Ellesse threads outside of tennis, this is great!

I have to bookmark this thread and reconvene with it next week when we're all going through it in realtime

🎶And if the whole world’s singing your songs / And all of your paintings have been hung / Just remember what was yours is everyone’s from now on

-Jeff Tweedy, "What Light"

This is because they respect the viewers! They make the assumption that viewers are not dumb and can see what's happening without incessant chatter and hype; moreover letting huge moments unfold without words so we can get the feel of what it's like being in the arena or stadium

If you want an overmodulated, bloviated call of the game, turn down your TV and turn on a radio broadcast, especially a local team's iteration. In television, the announcers let the pictures speak for themselves

He was really good tonight, yinz are leaning on this very tired bit too much

MNF radio w Kurt Warner every week

And the animal editors?

Where are our temptations treats?!

A Perfect Saturday @ halfway between holidays

circulation (U.S.) 1.3M print + 250k digital, ~0.4% of the pop. They claim to reach 26M people globally/yr, ~0.3%

You're right, they cling to life via social reposts & clips--these numbers run the same on *all* legacy media, esp. cable news

Maybe people will realize their irrelevance someday🤷‍♂️

Also: how is this not a 2015 sports brief?

Bluesky runs on AWS 🤷‍♂️