SI's Sports Media Power Rankings

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Richard Deitsch ranks his top 10. Some interesting choices...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130306/most-powerful-people-sports-media/

 

[Boom_70]

Dino Costa has more power than half that list

 

[21]

Let's do an SJ version of this.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

That's a pretty dreadful list... IMO...

 

[JackReacher]

Dino Costa has more power than half that list

He does? How so?

I've heard bits and pieces of his show. I enjoyed his Friday night gambling segments. Aside from that, it was mainly him telling me how great he is.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Richard Deitsch ranks his top 10. Some interesting choices...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130306/most-powerful-people-sports-media/

He mentions AWoj and says he "has 370,000 Twitter followers" as if that's proof of his reach... I like AWoj, but his inclusion on this list is absurd.

Meanwhile...

Adam Schefter - 2.1 million followers
Peter King and Chris Mortensen are both over a million...

Including former athletes on this list is a huge reach. I love Barkley on TNT. How does he have power? How does Bradshaw have power?

 

[LongTimeListener]

In the context of that list -- on-camera people only -- Barkley has immense power. If he goes away, that show would have a major crisis on its hands.

 

[poindexter]

Richard Deitsch ranks his top 10. Some interesting choices...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130306/most-powerful-people-sports-media/

He mentions AWoj and says he "has 370,000 Twitter followers" as if that's proof of his reach... I like AWoj, but his inclusion on this list is absurd.

Meanwhile...

Adam Schefter - 2.1 million followers
Peter King and Chris Mortensen are both over a million...

Including former athletes on this list is a huge reach. I love Barkley on TNT. How does he have power? How does Bradshaw have power?

I don't give a **** about twitter or the power of twitter, but don't you have to filter out all the fake twitter accounts before you list numbers as evidence of anything?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Richard Deitsch ranks his top 10. Some interesting choices...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130306/most-powerful-people-sports-media/

He mentions AWoj and says he "has 370,000 Twitter followers" as if that's proof of his reach... I like AWoj, but his inclusion on this list is absurd.

Meanwhile...

Adam Schefter - 2.1 million followers
Peter King and Chris Mortensen are both over a million...

Including former athletes on this list is a huge reach. I love Barkley on TNT. How does he have power? How does Bradshaw have power?

I don't give a **** about twitter or the power of twitter, but don't you have to filter out all the fake twitter accounts before you list numbers as evidence of anything?

Well, the only reason I brought it up is because he listed that about AWoj. It's stupid to say that Schefter is five times more influential than Jay Glazer because he has five times as many followers... But there are a lot of people in sports media who have close to or more than a million followers...

 

[Norrin Radd]

Insomnia-curing linkbait.

 

[Boom_70]

Dino Costa has more power than half that list

He does? How so?

I've heard bits and pieces of his show. I enjoyed his Friday night gambling segments. Aside from that, it was mainly him telling me how great he is.

Half kidding but the thing with Costa is that he has strong opinions and has a loyal following. Some guys on that list are not opinion changers or shapers.

 

[Versatile]

Adrian Wojnarowski is the only interesting choice on that list, and that pick is so 2011.

 

[YankeeFan]

This doesn't reflect well on the suits at ESPN

7. Chris Berman, ESPN

Along with having a ton of allies in upper management and ESPN's public relations staff, Berman is the public face to ESPN's scrappy past and mega-enormous present. As one on-air staffer recently told me, never underestimate how powerful Berman is internally. No SportsCenter anchor -- not even longtime vets Stuart Scott and Scott Van Pelt -- carry the internal clout Berman does with the suits.

 

[DanOregon]

Not really a surprise though. Berman was there before 99 percent of the suits. He was "the guy" when they got there.

Really thought Jay Glazer should have been on there. Can't believe people turn on Fox because of Bradshaw.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I'm shocked that Deitsch didn't include Jason Whitlock. There's so much mutual admiration.

 

[ColdCat]

Skip Bayless at No. 10? That's a joke, right?

 

[Versatile]

Skip Bayless at No. 10? That's a joke, right?

He should be higher. His presence has become the dominant force driving ESPN's content decisions.

 

[slappy4428]

Skip Bayless at No. 10? That's a joke, right?

No more than Finebaum at 17... self-important puffery because of a knuckle-dragging fan base counts in their eyes...

 

[ColdCat]

Skip Bayless at No. 10? That's a joke, right?

He should be higher. His presence has become the dominant force driving ESPN's content decisions.

I'd say that fact is more a negative for the WWL than a positive for Bayless. The only time anyone got any sort of satisfaction when Bayless was on the screen was when Mark Cuban beat him up and took his lunch money on First Take the day after the NBA Finals last year

 

[Versatile]

This isn't a complimentary list.