The Grill Room podcast artwork
News

The Grill Room

by Audacy | Puck
Share this ranking Claiming needs an RSS feed. Contact us.

Where it charts

Today’s combined position on our country charts.

Ranking history

History builds daily. We started tracking this show on the News chart recently, so the trend line appears after a second day of data.

About the show

Finally, a media podcast about what’s actually happening in the media—not the over-sanitized, legal-and-standards-approved version you read online. Every Tuesday and Friday, join Dylan Byers, Puck’s veteran media reporter, and Julia Alexander, a longtime media analyst, as they sit down with TV personalities, moguls, political pundits and industry executives for raw, honest, sometimes salacious conversations about the business of media and its biggest egos. “The Grill Room,” an homage to the exclusive dining room within The Four Seasons where a generation of media executives consummated deals and traded gossip, is produced in partnership with Audacy Podcasts. The Grill Room is an extension of In the Room, Dylan’s private email for Puck, where he chronicles the intrigue and inside stories behind what’s really going on in the media industry—from the board room to the newsroom to the green room and everything in between. Subscribe here: https://puck.news/dylanbyers

Latest episodes

  • Ellison’s $80 Billion House of Cards

    October 9, 2026 · 50 min

    Julia and Dylan reunite to examine Skydance’s post-merger playbook, and how David Ellison intends to manage an $80 billion debt load and deliver $6 billion in promised synergies. They also get into the fate of CNN and CBS News, which…

  • NBA’s Amazon Prime Time

    October 6, 2026 · 36 min

    In a special recording live from Puck’s In the Arena conference, Amazon Prime’s Charlie Neiman and NBA media exec Bill Koenig join Dylan to assess the the first year of the NBA–Amazon media partnership and their future for distribution…

  • C-Suite Dominoes

    October 2, 2026 · 34 min

    Julia and Dylan reunite to discuss the leadership changes rippling across Paramount–WBD, Mattel, and Condé Nast, and what they portend for the future of media companies. They consider whether established players can redefine their products…

  • Tennis Channel’s Big Serve

    September 29, 2026 · 30 min

    Jeff Blackburn, C.E.O. of Tennis Channel, joins Dylan to discuss how the network is expanding its audience and digital distribution, and its role in the broader tennis ecosystem. Blackburn explains how he’s elevating ATP and WTA 1000…

  • When the Press Pool Runs Dry

    September 25, 2026 · 56 min

    Julia and Dylan reunite to walk through a busy week in media: the coordinated pushback from news organizations against White House press restrictions, the Paramount–WBD merger and its implications for CNN and CBS News, the buzz around…

  • Platypus Economics

    September 23, 2026 · 2 min

    From world events to everyday decisions, economics explains it all. Platypus Economics makes it clear, useful, and actually fun. Available now: link.pscrb.fm/f0281/PE_TGR

  • The Ellison Settlement & The AP’s Tech Pivot

    September 22, 2026 · 53 min

    LightShed’s Rich Greenfield stops by for a quick debrief on the settlement between David Ellison and the state attorneys general, and the many political and media implications lurking behind the deal. Then Julie Pace and Kristin Heitmann…

  • Ellison Exit Threats & ESPN Talent Math

    September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Julia and Dylan dig into Paramount’s Nashville-or-Texas brinksmanship with Rob Bonta and the red-state logic behind it, then unpack the Bari Weiss ratings discourse and Nielsen’s shifting methodology. They debate how mainstream media…