Konrad Marshall's 10 April cover story 'Playing hardball' profiles Craig Hutchison, founder of the Sports Entertainment Network, which operates 21 radio stations across Australia, with broadcast rights to the AFL, NRL, soccer, cricket, basketball and more. Konrad is joined by Michael Gleeson, an award-winning senior sports writer with The Age, to chart how a former journalist, by dint of hard work and dogged determination, became a successful media proprietor, with the potential some believe to build an Australian version of ESPN.

Link to the story: https://www.smh.com.au/national/craig-hutchison-is-building-a-sports-media-empire-but-not-everyone-s-a-fan-20210304-p577u1.html

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