Adnan Virk on Amazon coming to Canada to broadcast the NHL
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Episode 433 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Adnan Virk, who will be a host for Amazon's Prime Monday Night Hockey. Amazon will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024-25 NHL season in Canada. In this podcast Virk discusses how he landed the Prime Video job; Amazon's foray into the NHL; Amazon's upcoming NHL whiparound show; being onsite for an NHL studio show; what baseball needs for a big postseason; Joe Tessitore doing WWE broadcasting; HBO's The Penguin, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:41.7 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:42.5 | I'm your host, Richard Deich. |
| 0:44.3 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:53.3 | I mean, one guest this week, but I mean, this guy, he's like, it's like bringing in, you know, if you're Letterman, like Charles Grotonin. If you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're Carson, it's like bringing in George Carlin. |
| 0:58.9 | I mean, if you, I don't want Jimmy Fallon, but I don't know. If you Jimmy Fallon's like bring in Duleepa, I don't know, get your, get your hip kid, uh, get your, get your hip kid reference here. Adnan Verk is, well, his current new job, man of a thousand jobs, |
| 1:15.3 | he'll be a host for Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey. |
| 1:18.7 | That's why he's here. |
| 1:20.3 | And Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey will be streaming all national regular season Monday Night |
| 1:26.6 | NHL games in English for the |
| 1:28.3 | 2024-25 NHL season in Canada. It's a very, very big deal because now Amazon is in the |
| 1:34.5 | Canadian hockey market and generally speaking when it comes to Amazon, they're not a one-off |
| 1:40.7 | company. So I would pay attention to this. The big deal, and that's the deal with |
| 1:45.1 | Rogers, is up in two years. And so pay attention to how Amazon does hockey this year, |
| 1:51.2 | because my sense is it's only the beginning. And Adnan Burke is one of the on-air talents |
| 1:55.9 | that they have hired for this. And he's kind enough to join me. Once again, on the sports |
| 2:00.1 | media podcast. Welcome back, Adnan. Rich, it's great to join me. Once again on the sports media podcast. |
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