Adnan Virk and Mike Lombardi and John Ourand

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Episode 50 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two segments: First up is Adnan Virk and Mike Lombardi, the co-hosts of the new podcast, “The GM Shuffle.” Virk is currently the host of DAZN’s “ChangeUp” MLB whip-around show as well as a host at MLB Network. He worked for ESPN for a decade before he was fired by that company earlier this year. Lombardi is a longtime NFL executive who has worked for ESPN, CBS Sports, Showtime, the NFL Network, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Ringer and The Athletic. In this podcast, Virk and Lombardi discuss how their podcast came together and what they hope to bring to listeners; honesty and authenticity for podcast listeners; how Virk feels about ESPN today; whether he would have been fired by ESPN if he was a bigger name; how ESPNers should feel about management loyalty; who leaked the story of Virk’s firing and whether he leaked that information; Lombardi on how long Bill Belichick can continue to coach; the Kyler Murray-Josh Rosen situation for Arizona, and much more. The second guest is John Ourand, the media reporter for the Sports Business Daily. In the podcast, Ourand discussed ABC bidding for NFL packages during the next round of negotiations including a Super Bowl; the CBS Sports/WNBA deal; Sinclair’s bid for the Fox-branded RSNs and what would that mean if they win it; Peyton Manning turning down ESPN’s Monday Night Football; Abigail Disney’s Twitter thread excoriating Bob Iger’s 2018 compensation of $65.6 million and how laid-off ESPN-ers should feel about it, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:06.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deutch, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always is Terrence Malagon.
0:12.0	Coming up on this week's episode, two segments. First up, Adnan Verk and Mike Lombardi.
0:18.9	They are now co-hosting a new podcast called the GM Shuffle. That podcast is a
0:25.3	Cadence 13 podcast, the same podcast company that does mine. So a little bit of crossover here
0:32.4	as the Cadence 13 people, much like the Godfather, maybe an offer I couldn't refuse. So Adnan Verk and Mike Lombardi coming up in the first segment.
0:41.9	And not only do we talk about this podcast, but we get into Adnan being fired by ESPN.
0:46.5	His thoughts on this.
0:47.4	I think you're going to be interested in what he has to say.
0:49.4	We follow that up with John O'Rand.
0:51.1	He is a regular on this podcast from the Sports Media Journal and Sports Media Daily, their fine media reporter. The conversation there is about ABC and trying to be a player when it comes to the upcoming NFL packages. Will ABC get a Super Bowl? That's a very, very interesting story in sports media. We also talk about the CBS WNBA deal.
1:13.0	CBS and the CBS Sports Network will now air 40 WNBA games.
1:17.1	Very good deal, I think, for both.
1:18.9	John gets into the reporting that he's done on Sinclair,
1:22.3	who as we tape this are the leaders in the bids for the Fox-branded RSNs. And then we finish up with
1:29.4	Abigail Disney's comments on Bob Iger and corporate compensation at Disney and how ESPNers
1:37.2	who were laid off over the last couple of years would feel about seeing Bob Iger pulling
1:41.7	down, you know, 60 plus million dollars in compensation
1:45.8	in a single year.
1:47.3	So Adnan Verk, Mike Lombardi, John O'Rant, all coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:55.1	All right, Adnan Verk and Mike Lombardi are co-hosting a new podcast.
2:00.8	It is called the GM Shuffle. The podcast is being
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