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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

CNBC’s Alex Sherman on Venu Sports’ shuttering and Amazon Sports’ longterm play

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 465 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Alex Sherman, a CNBC reporter, the author of the CNBC Sport newsletter, and the host of CNBC Sport Videocast. In this podcast, Sherman discusses why Venu Sports failed to launch in the end; Disney combining its Hulu+ Live TV service with Fubo; what it means for Fox and WBD; UFC wanting $1B for its media rights; Sherman’s interview with Jay Marine, the Head of PrimeVideo Sports; Amazon and Netflix’s sports intentions and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the sports media podcast.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Richard Deich.

0:13.9

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

0:15.7

One guest on this episode, very good of him to come on late on a Friday.

0:20.4

But there was some pretty significant news.

0:23.2

And who better to discuss this significant news with than Alex Sherman, who has his own podcast,

0:27.6

by the way, or videocast, I should say.

0:29.5

But he's a CNBC reporter, the author of the CNBC Sport Newsletter, and the host of the

0:34.6

aforementioned CNBC Sport Videocast, recently had Jay Marine, head of Amazon SportsAns, one of the aforementioned CNBC Sport Videocast recently had Jay Marine,

0:39.7

head of Amazon Sports on.

0:41.0

It's one of the things I want to talk to him about.

0:43.2

But we will be starting with Enu Sports, and Alex, welcome to the sports media podcast.

0:47.6

Thanks, Richard.

0:48.3

It's nice to hear all that stuff actually exists.

0:50.7

I think the last time I was on the show, we talked about it in the hypothetical.

0:55.2

So it is nice that all of this stuff exists now. I know. You know I've been pushing for this

0:59.1

for two years. So it's good. The fruition is awesome. I appreciated all the support. You got it.

1:03.5

All right. So this is a very broad, big picture. But so why did venue sports fail to launch in

1:07.5

the end, in your opinion? I honestly think there were two main components.

1:13.2

One, the more interesting one, I think, is that Disney pulled off this deal earlier this

1:19.6

week to combine Fubo and Hulu with Live TV.

1:25.5

And that deal eliminated the Fubo existing lawsuit, which is the reason

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