Bryan Curtis on Fox-Barstool, Stephen Colbert & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Episode 564 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with The Ringers's Editor-At-Large, Bryan Curtis about all the latest sports media news.
Topics covered include the partnership between Fox Sports and Barstool sports, which company needs the other more, why Barstool's daily FS1 show is more intriguing than the "Big Noon Kickoff" deal, the battle between "Big Noon Kickoff" and "College GameDay," Barstool's turnaround when it comes to public perception
Other topics discussed include ESPN getting close to purchasing NFL Media and what that would mean, where Major League Baseball will end up selling the rights to its wild-card games and "Sunday Night Baseball," ESPN's decisions on Richard Jefferson and Doris Burke and its lead NBA booth, the cost of streaming and more.
In addition, Curtis discusses CBS canceling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," what it means for late night television and how late night has changed over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented by Yahoo Fantasy. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:09.7 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:11.9 | You will love this week's show. |
| 0:13.9 | We've got Brian Curtis from the ringer. |
| 0:15.9 | What about regulars? |
| 0:17.2 | Brian was outstanding in discussing the latest sports media news, obviously big news. |
| 0:23.1 | From the past week, Fox and Barstall partnering up for their NFL, excuse me, college pregame show as well as a daily show on FS1 in the mornings. |
| 0:32.4 | Get into the ESPN NFL media story. |
| 0:35.7 | Looks like we're very close to ESPN acquiring NFL media, which includes |
| 0:39.4 | Red Zone NFL Network, get into that, and where baseball stands with their package that's still |
| 0:46.2 | out there of Sunday Night Baseball and the Wild Card round. And then we also discussed |
| 0:52.0 | CBS canceling Stephen Colbert as well for the last, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes of the pod and do a little nostalgia on late night TV. |
| 1:03.7 | So it was a great, great conversation with Brian Curtis. |
| 1:06.1 | We don't have Sal and train of thoughts this week, as he told you last week, Sal is on his staycation. Sal on staycation. Try to say that quickly. But, and it's, you know, I'm a little pissed off because it would have been a great week for Sal. There's so much to discuss with him. There's a Billy Joel documentary on HBO, which it's not the worst thing when that I don't have them this week because there's a part two coming up this Friday. So we'll discuss the entire thing when he's back next week. There's a lot to talk about with part one of that doc. If you haven't watched, I can't recommend that enough. You must watch it. I think it's called and so it goes. It's on HBO Max. I'll do a full-blown discussion of it with Sal next week. Obviously, passing of Malcolm Dr. Moore, the passing of Ozzy Osborne. We could have went into that. And I had my first root canal ever on Monday. So we'll have a ton of topics with Sal next week. You should maybe do a whole episode with Sal will see. But we don't have them this week. He's enjoying this vacation. Hopefully no snakes. And so this week, we give you Brian Curtis. |
| 2:05.9 | And believe me, you will be satisfied. All right. Before we get to it, just a quick reminder. |
| 2:10.7 | If you missed any recent episodes, Scott Hanson, the host of the NFL Red Zone, which we discussed |
| 2:16.2 | on this week's show, Brian Curtis. |
| 2:18.1 | He was on the podcast last week. |
| 2:20.2 | And two weeks ago, great, great interview with Dan Erlowski from ESPN, who recently resigned with the company. |
| 2:28.1 | So check those out. |
| 2:29.6 | Make sure you subscribe to this podcast. |
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