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Five of Dave Matthews Band's ten nearest neighbors by audience shape are sports journalists — John Buccigross (0.91), Jayson Stark (0.91), Buster Olney (0.91), Field Yates (0.89), and Peter King — and not one of the ten shares the center entity's own subcategory of Musicians and Bands.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.92 at the top (James Holzhauer, a TV Personality) down to 0.89 (John Kasich, a Politician), with no single neighbor pulling sharply ahead of the rest. Alongside the journalists, the cluster includes two more TV Personalities in Kenny Mayne (0.89) and Holzhauer, a Comedian in Jim Gaffigan (0.90), an Athlete in Paul Bissonnette (0.89), and a Professionals-subcategory entry in Matthew Berry (0.90). The mix is almost entirely sports-media and entertainment personalities — a cross-kind pattern that runs consistently across the full band of scores.
The absence of any fellow Musicians and Bands in the top 10, combined with the dominance of sports journalists and TV personalities, suggests this audience is shaped less by music fandom than by a broader sports-and-entertainment media profile.
