Assessing the streaming landscape after UFC gets acquired by Paramount +
The Greg Hill Show
Audacy
2.6 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We were singing everywhere on the radio. |
| 0:02.5 | Kind of like them songs. |
| 0:03.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:05.7 | Somehow, some way. |
| 0:07.0 | The beginning. |
| 0:07.9 | What? |
| 0:08.8 | Jake going. |
| 0:10.2 | Yeah, but the beat, it's based off a different song. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, from the, it samples the original Jack and Diane by John Cougar Melanchard. |
| 0:18.4 | Yes, that's exactly what it is. |
| 0:19.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.9 | All right, we got to talk about something that is, Wiggy and I were just doing a deep dive into. |
| 0:26.1 | UFC has given their rights, sold their rights to Paramount for $7.7 billion. |
| 0:34.3 | And Paramount is about to be owned by the son of the Oracle family, Ellison. |
| 0:40.2 | Oh, really? Because Paramount is CBS. Right. That's why they settled with Trump. That's why they're about |
| 0:45.5 | to have new owners. They're in the process of divesting and getting new ownership at CBS. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, so when we were reading into it, it seems like pay-per-view revenue was on the decline, |
| 0:56.5 | so it makes sense for UFC to make this jump. But $7.7 billion to me seems like a wild number. |
| 1:04.1 | Paramount's going to make out huge in this, because Paramount, I think, we subscribe already. It's |
| 1:08.9 | $12.99 a month. I that it it has good content good movies |
| 1:12.5 | good TV shows that's where Yellowstone was so I think that's why we originally jumped on board |
| 1:17.0 | but before your pay-per-view cost was 79 99. Right so to go from 7999 for a fight to now 1299 a month |
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