# S10 E29 - The Favourable Loser Coverage

An episode of [The Sounding Board](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1097464155), 25 Aug 2025, 42 min.

Audio: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NTETP3885457200.mp3

There was heaps for Hutchy and Damo to work through in this week's episode, including the media's handling of the Izak Rankine situation last week, "favourable loser coverage", how other media outlets are covering the ABC now, the "watershed moment" for content creators this week, and more. In this episode: 1:31 - Peter V’landys’ meeting with Len Blavatnik 3:29 - The AFL’s current broadcast deal 6:28 - How the media handled the Izak Rankine situation 14:49 - The ‘Pooling’ in Adelaide 20:13 - Why no journos came to Ross Lyon’s press conference 22:41 - How Cal Twomey broke the Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera story 26:02 - The ‘Taking Out The Trash’ at West Coast on Sunday night 29:02 - How other media outlets are covering the ABC now 32:22 - Content creators becoming official broadcast partners of major sports leagues 39:51 - Tom Morris’ latest podcast appearance 🗣️ Hosted by: Craig Hutchison: twitter.com/craighutchy Damian Barrett: twitter.com/barrettdamian 📲 Follow and contact us: Twitter: twitter.com/SoundingBoardEp Facebook: facebook.com/SoundingBoardEp Email: thesoundingboard@sen.com.au The Sounding Board is proudly supported by DrinkWise - if you're choosing to drink, choose to drink wise.

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