Roundtable with Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal assistant managing editor/digital Austin Karp

Episode 299 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features The Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal assistant managing editor/digital Austin Karp. In this podcast Karp and Finn discusses the NBA’s best first round playoff viewership in nine years, averaging 3.4 million viewers over 43 game telecasts across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and NBA TV; the Warriors-Kings Game 7 drawing 9.8 million viewers for Game 7, the best first-round game since 1999 (24 years); best teams in the finals for viewership; the NHL’s average viewership of 914,000 viewers for the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and TBS, up 19% from last year and what should we extrapolate from this; best matchups; on three months after the Super Bowl, Fox finding out that it set a viewership record; media layoffs; interest in the Kentucky Derby; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.