Marchand Sports Media Inside the YouTube TV-ESPN fiasco
In the 42-minute sports media podcast, Puck’s John Ourand joins for his monthly visit on the “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Ourand and Marchand go inside the YouTube TV-ESPN showdown and how it could end.
Plus, what the next big NFL TV and MLB deals could look like, Bob Iger on the Manningcast and much more
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The Rundown …
* Why Ourand thinks that the distributors may have the leverage as YouTube TV and Disney keeps going
* What does executive Justin Connolly’s switching sides from Disney to YouTube TV mean to the negotiations
* How important is YouTube TV to Google’s business
* Why it is easier for consumers to wait out the YouTube TV-ESPN dispute
* The Sunday Ticket factor in the YouTube-ESPN negotiations
* How social media is wrong about everything
* Why it is wrong to think that Disney’s goal is to push people to its ESPN DTC app
* Looking back on how the cable bundle was good for sports and non-sports fans
* Is Fox’s president of insight and analytics, Mike Mulvihill, right that sports streaming is not producing the younger viewers it claims in comparison to broadcast
* The NBA nailed their TV deals with the money and the platforms
* NBA fans are going to need Peacock
* The NFL next deal will still be centered around broadcast TV
* Should the NFL really go all in on streaming
* The NFL decides the future of TV, but going all-in on streaming should make them wary
* The big digital players will only want big matchup NFL games, but YouTube in front of a paywall is the one wild card
* The new NFL deals could still be musical chairs
* Why in the next decade the World Series could be split up between multiple platforms
* What was Omaha Productions doing with the Bob Iger’s Manningcast spot
* Why were they calling him “Mr. Iger” and no Ithaca College mention
* Iger, 74, is very youthful
* Since Ourand’s podcast is going on RSNs, will he pay attention to his haircut
* Bloopers!
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