Austin Karp is a Managing Editor/Digital at ABC15 Arizona. He focuses on a variety of themes including sports, sports business, and competitive sports, with particular expertise in football, basketball, and the NFL. Austin's insights and analyses are featured in prominent publications such as Sports Business Journal.
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Austin Karp's coverage is heavily focused on sports, specifically in the realm of sports broadcasting and audience analysis. He frequently cites data to support his reporting, indicating a preference for fact-based pitches supported by relevant statistics or research findings.
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By: Austin Karp
Laura Rutledge has been lauded for her on-air work surrounding the tragic events on New Year’s Day in New Orleans. The longtime ESPN personality, on the ground for the Sugar Bowl, bounced from giving sports fans updates on ESPN airwaves to being a main voice on the ground for “Good Morning America” and ABC News updates on Jan. 1 and 2.
The NBC Sports FAST Channel today is being rebranded as NBC Sports Now, with 24/7 programming like sports-talk shows like “Pro Football Talk,” “The Dan Patrick Show” and “The Dan Le Batard Show.”
Notre Dame's late win over Penn State in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Thursday night averaged 17.8 million viewers on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU, a figure on the lower end of what a CFP semifinal has typically drawn since the multiteam playoff began in 2005. Only five semifinal games have been lower among 21 such semis (the audience for Friday night's Ohio State-Texas game is not yet available). This was the first CFP game to be played on a non-holiday Thursday night, which may have impacted viewership.
Sports programming again dominated the most-viewed telecasts of the year, accounting for 182 of the top 200 shows in 2024, or a whopping 91% of the total. Sports had 87 in the top 100, and 95 from Nos. 101-200. The number for sports was affected by a presidential election season, when debates and conventions took up a number of spots.
ESPN will lean on NL teams during the first two months of “Sunday Night Baseball” this season, with the Dodgers leading the way with three appearances in April and May. The Braves and Padres each have two appearances, including the “SNB” opener on March 30. Also with two “SNB” games in April/May are the Cubs, Phillies and Mets. No AL team has more than one “SNB” game during the opening months (Red Sox, Astros, Guardians, Yankees).
TGL just cleared 1 million viewers on Tuesday night for the second match of TGL (1.005 million), a rise of 9% from the first episode last week , reports SBJ's Austin Karp.
TGL barely cleared 1 million viewers on Tuesday night for the second match of TGL (1.005 million), a rise of 9% from the first episode last week. Tuesday's match featured the debut of Tiger Woods playing competitively, and it also was slotted in the 7pm ET window vs. 9pm ET in Week 1. The audience likely could have been higher, but TGL had a lopsided score for the second consecutive week, with L.A. GC easily beating Woods' Jupiter GC. TGL was also the second-best sports programming for Tuesday night, behind only TNT/truTV's Cavaliers-Pacers game, which drew 1.033 million viewers. TNT/truTV's late window drew 961,000 viewers with Nuggets-Mavericks starting at 9:35pm ET. TGL was also well above the 587,000 viewers for Miami-Duke men's hoops, which aired immediately after TGL on ESPN.
The Chiefs' win over the Texans on Saturday afternoon in the Divisional round drew 32.7 million viewers on ABC/ESPN, marking ESPN's best non-Super
The NFL’s Christmas Day debut on Netflix helped the streaming platform to 8.5% of total TV viewing in December, tying Netflix’s best share set in July 2023, according to new Nielsen Gauge data.
The first year of the expanded CFP saw viewership for the championship fall 12% from last year, reports SBJ's Austin Karp.
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