It is also one of the biggest. 80 Small Businesses in this one spot. Just like people across the country, the Business Owners here are worried. Worried the Covid Surge will keep customers home and Mask Mandates or Vaccination Mandates will hurt their bottom line. That is on top of Supply Chain issues and inflation. Todays numbers are good. It follows gains with 4 Million jobs added so far this year alone. It doesnt account for something important. The surge in cases we are seeing right now and the threat of the Delta Variant on our attempt to get back to normal. Here in philadelphia, this City Saw more than 100,000 jobs wiped out in the first two months of the pandemic. They spent the last 16 months clawing back and they do not want to go back a second time. I want to start this morning with my allstar panel here to break it down. Josh lederman and the moderator of washington weekly. And jason furhman. He joined the obama administration. And John Hope Bryant is here. Jason, what are yo
Hello. What a summer of sport this is. Sport is all over tv, and coverage of Sports Events is what we are focusing on today. The olympics is on, weve just had the euros, and theres a new Cricket Competition called the hundred on primetime bbc, as well as sky. But in this age of infinite choice, live sport has to compete to hold our attention. Does Sport Need to be more attractive than an hour of fortnite or netflix, or tiktok . And has the amount of Money Tv companies are prepared to pay for sport fallen during the pandemic . Well, these are some of the questions that my all Star Panel of Sporting Supremos will answer today and between them, they are reaching hundreds of millions of viewers. They are andrew georgiou, president of sport at Discovery, and he joins us from tokyo, where Discovery are covering the olympics. Minal modha covers sport for ampere analysis, and Sanjay Patel is directing manager of the hundred for england and wales cricket board. Sanjay, the hundred has got match
The media show. Hello. What a summer of sport this is. Sport is all over tv, and coverage of Sports Events is what we are focusing on today. The olympics is on, weve just had the euros, and theres a new Cricket Competition called the hundred on primetime bbc, as well as sky. But in this age of infinite choice, live sport has to compete to hold our attention. Does Sport Need to be more attractive than an hour of fortnite or netflix, or tiktok . And has the amount of Money Tv companies are prepared to pay for sport fallen during the pandemic . Well, these are some of the questions that my all Star Panel of Sporting Supremos will answer today and between them, they are reaching hundreds of millions of viewers. They are andrew georgiou, president of sport at Discovery, and hejoins us from tokyo, where Discovery are covering the olympics. Minal modha covers sport for ampere analysis, and Sanjay Patel is directing manager of the hundred for england and wales cricket board. Sanjay, the hundre
Will answer today and between them, they are reaching hundreds of millions of viewers. They are andrew georgiou, president of sport at Discovery, and he joins us from tokyo, where Discovery are covering the olympics. Minal modha covers sport for ampere analysis, and Sanjay Patel is Managing Director of the hundred for england and wales cricket board. Sanjay, the hundred has got matches on every day. You want to bring cricket to a new wider audience how are the ratings going for it so far . What are the Tv Audiences like . Well, were a week into the hundred and weve been absolutely delighted with the reaction, both in stadia and on broadcast. Over the first week, weve reached 8. 4 million people. Whats really important to us is 3. 3 Million people who never watched cricket before this year. So that suggests we are reaching a new audience. And we were just blown away by the two opening games the womens opening game got 1. 9 million, which was the peak, which is great for the Womens Game
Now on Bbc News, The Media Show. Hello. What a summer of sport this is. Sport is all over tv, and coverage of Sports Events is what we are focusing on today. The olympics is on, weve just had the euros, and theres a new Cricket Competition called the hundred on primetime bbc, as well as sky. But in this age of infinite choice, live sport has to compete to hold our attention. Does Sport Need to be more attractive than an hour of fortnite or netflix, or tiktok . And has the amount of Money Tv companies are prepared to pay for sport fallen during the pandemic . Well, these are some of the questions that my all Star Panel of Sporting Supremos will answer today and between them, they are reaching hundreds of millions of viewers. They are andrew georgiou, president of sport at Discovery, and he joins us from tokyo, where Discovery are covering the olympics. Minal modha covers sport for ampere analysis, and Sanjay Patel is directing manager of the hundred for england and wales cricket board.