Ben Gilbert: belief

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…It's the reason consumers reach into their wallet. Yes, and sports are sort of eating a larger percentage of the pie of TV ad revenue. You could make an argument they were sort of under earning for many years, but as the last thing that you actually watch on TV is these premium live sports, they are definitely commanding the revenues that they long deserved. Why has viewership increased so much? Or why have people been really wanting to pay attention to NFL games over the last couple of years? What could have possibly changed that would make people pay attention? Well, we said earlier in the episode that if you got money riding on a game, you are much more likely to care about it, even if you don't care about any of these teams gambling. The Supreme Court decision came down, I believe made it a state's rights issue of what type of gambling, sports gambling to allow. I think that's correct.…

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