Big Noon Conversations: Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti on his TV background & first 100 days

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations, FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt sits down with the new Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, Tony Petitti. They begin by discussing what the Commissioner hopes to accomplish early in his tenure. Petitti goes into how his background as a TV executive and at Major League Baseball has prepared him to oversee the Big Ten’s $7 Billion media rights deal. He also reflects back on his time at ABC during the creation of the BCS. The two finish by discussing the importance of incentivizing top-level regular season success in the expanded Playoff era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.4	Everyone loves a great Christmas movie.
0:18.4	And nobody does Christmas better than Disney Plus.
0:21.4	That was epic.
0:22.8	Stream Indiana Jones and the Dine of Destiny, straight from the cinema.
0:26.4	I've been looking for this all my life.
0:29.8	Alongside festive favorites like Muppet's Christmas Carol.
0:33.2	Very Christmas, everyone.
0:34.8	Home Alone and Die Hard.
0:37.0	It'd be great.
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0:42.2	Auto-renews are less canceled, $18 plus subscription required.
0:45.4	I think part of what I had to commence people was that I'm not just a media person.
0:48.6	I did a lot of other things in MLB.
0:50.8	But at the same time, the baseball experience working with Commissioner Manford
0:54.6	in the departments that he let me oversee just really created like a new portfolio for me.
0:59.2	Most influential people in the sport, talking about the sport globally.
1:08.8	This time on Big New Conversations, I talk with the new Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference,
1:14.0	Tony Petiti.
1:20.0	All right, we welcome the new Big Ten Commissioner, Tony Petiti.
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