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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Pac-12 boss Larry Scott wants a media empire that can outshine the Big Ten. But to do it, he must strong-arm ESPN and then find a way to face down satellite TV giant DirecTV.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. April 2011. In a New Orleans hotel suite, PAC-12 Commissioner Larry Scott and
0:26.1	E-SPN Executive Vice President John Skipper are negotiating over a hastily
0:31.1	arranged dinner. This morning the two men had no dinner planned and were 1400 miles apart.
0:37.0	But now, Skipper's flown in from Connecticut in a last minute bid to keep Pack 12 games on ESPN.
0:45.0	The Pack 12's media rights are upper auction,
0:48.0	and right now Comcast NBC is the front runner.
0:52.0	Scott Levels with Skipper.
0:54.0	John Comcast's offering us everything we want. A major increase in our media revenues and a
0:59.7	higher profile for all our colleges sports.
1:01.9	Comcast's unproven in cable sports, and college sports matters to us at ESPN.
1:08.0	ESPN was built on college sports.
1:11.0	Sure, but our colleges need money to improve their facilities.
1:15.0	Compared to the colleges in the big 10 and big 12, hours are underfunded.
1:20.0	They need a big deal to remain competitive as colleges.
1:24.0	Skipper sits back and thinks.
1:26.0	ESPN can't match Comcast's offer.
1:29.4	Not just financially, but in airtime too.
1:32.1	ESPN owns lots of sports rights,
1:35.0	and there's only so much time it can give to PAC 12 games.
1:38.0	Really, ESPN just wants to hold on to the Pac 12 games it already shows and Fox Sports wants to keep
1:46.0	showing the Pac 12 games ESPN doesn't air skipper smiles at Scott.
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