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Two neighbors pull clearly ahead of the rest in Sage Steele's top 10: Ryan Clark at 0.86 and PTI at 0.85, with Michael Wilbon close behind at 0.84. That pairing — an athlete-turned-analyst and a long-running sports debate show — defines the two-peak structure of this audience graph, bridging individual sports personalities and the ESPN studio programming ecosystem.
The top 10 as a whole is dense with sports media. Tallying subcategories: four are TV Personalities (Maria Taylor at 0.80, Nick Wright at 0.78, Louis Riddick at 0.74, and Steele's own subcategory), two are TV Shows (PTI at 0.85, Get Up at 0.80), two are Journalists (Michael Wilbon at 0.84, Hannah Storm at 0.78), one is an Athlete (Ryan Clark at 0.86), and one is a Finance brand (Fifth Third Bank at 0.73). The Finance entry is the lone structural outlier — every other neighbor sits squarely inside the sports television world. The cluster is not just sports-adjacent; it is specifically the on-air, debate-and-analysis tier of sports media, the kind of audience that follows hosts, analysts, and the shows that feature them interchangeably.
The two-peak shape — Ryan Clark on one side, PTI on the other — suggests this audience moves fluidly between individual sports personalities and the institutional programs that house them.
