Andrew Marchand on Netflix, NBC, NCAA Tournament & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 602 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with The Athletic’s sports media reporter, Andrew Marchand about all of the latest sports media news.
Topics discussed include: Netflix’s awful broadcast of the Yankees-Giants game on Opening Night; what Netflix gets out of a deal with Major League Baseball; NBC’s return to airing MLB games; Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery and Grant Hill’s work on the Men’s NCAA Tournament; CBS and Turner’s very deep and impressive roster off college basketball announcers; Issues with the CBS/Turner Tournament studio show; the NFL trying to feature as many standalone games as possible and much more.
Following Marchand, Sal Licata, from SNY TV and “The Sal Licata Show,” joins Jimmy for their weekly “Traina Thoughts” segment. This week’s, Sal gives a report on what it was like to experience the ABS Challenge System in person at a recent Mets game. Jimmy breaks down his issues with a new commercial starring Larry David and talks about becoming obsessed with HBO’s new show, “DTF St. Louis.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to S-I-Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 0:05.4 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.5 | On today's show, we have Andrew Marshon, S-I-Media podcast regular. |
| 0:12.0 | Always great when Andrew checks in and we talk about all of the latest sports media news. |
| 0:17.9 | Netflix on MLB, NBC back with MLB, the college basketball tournament, and a bunch |
| 0:24.3 | of other things with Andrew. |
| 0:26.0 | And then, of course, Sal Akata and Train the Thoughts follows Marshan and a lot of topics there |
| 0:31.3 | with Sal as well. |
| 0:32.4 | Before we get to it, we put out two pods for you last week. |
| 0:35.2 | We had Jason Benetti, the voice of Sunday night baseball in NBC. And we did a podcast with Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling, the S&Y Mets announcers. And the week before that, John Fanta was on and he was outstanding. So if you missed any of those episodes, check them out. And make sure you subscribe slash follow SI Media with Jimmy Trainer. |
| 0:55.3 | All right. |
| 0:56.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:57.3 | Andrew Marshan from The Athletic on all the latest sports media news, followed by Salakata and Traynor Thoughts. |
| 1:03.2 | All right here right now. |
| 1:07.3 | On SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 1:10.1 | All right. |
| 1:10.8 | Joining me now, SI Media podcast regular Traynor. All right, joining me now, |
| 1:12.4 | SI Media podcast regular from The Athletic |
| 1:15.2 | and of course from his own podcast, Andrew Marchan. |
| 1:19.0 | Andrew, how are you? |
| 1:20.3 | I'm good. |
| 1:21.1 | Good to be back. |
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