Marchand Sports Media It's here! ESPN's pure sports streamer bet in a YouTube World
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In the 32-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel provide inside information and opinions. Here’s what you need to know:
* Can a pure sports streamer, like ESPN DTC, work on its own
* Why ESPN DTC may be Disney’s next sports step, but not its final one
* ESPN ruled the cable bundle, but now will compete with YouTube’s, Amazon’s and Netflix’s
* What YouTube likely having its first exclusive NFL telecast means
* Amazon is way ahead of the behemoth digital streamers
* Why Rich Eisen is headed to ESPN after more than two decades away
* John Ourand owes Marchand a steak
* With ESPN potentially adding tens of millions for a ninth SEC league game, what is college football mirroring
* Caitlin Clark has two TV comps … Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods
* The big lesson from the Ryan Ruocco podcast
* Pablo Torre’s unfair quote in the Jordon Hudson-Bill Belichick saga
* MLBN’s Kevin Millar goes all in, and rightfully so
* Papa Clicker Reviews on “In Legends and Soles (The Memoir of an American Original” by Sonny Vaccaro and Armen Keteyian and “Mornings with Madden (My Radio Life with an American Legend)” by Stan Bunger
* What to make of the Big Ten/SEC reportedly favoring playoff expansion
* What is Allie LaForce’s future
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