Emergency Podcast: USC and UCLA head to the Big Ten. What does it mean for media rights?

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Episode 219 of the Sports Media Podcast features Andy Staples, a senior writer for The Athletic covering college football. He is the host “The Andy Staples Show And Friends,” a podcast about college football and also a host of College Sports on SiriusXM. In this podcast, Staples discusses the seismic move of USC and UCLA heading to the Big Ten; why we are heading for two super leagues with the SEC and Big Ten; what this means heading forwards for the Pac-12, Big-12 and ACC as far as media rights; how we see what will happen with the Big Ten media rights; why Apple could be a very interesting partner for a set of Big Ten football games; why ESPN’s leverage for the Big Ten has been reduced; the massive rights deal increase coming for the Big Ten; the future of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament; how some of the smaller sports will be impacted; networks paying players and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, 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	Hey everybody, this is Richard Ditch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:10.3	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:12.0	It is the emergency podcast.
0:14.4	We haven't done a ton of these, but I wanted to do one today because USC and UCLA heading to the Big Ten has a lot of media
0:23.6	implications. No better person to talk about this with. Then my colleague at the athletic
0:28.8	Andy Staples, he's a senior writer there who covers college football. He's the host of his own
0:34.1	very successful podcast, the Andy Staples show and Friends, which is a podcast about college football.
0:39.5	And you will also hear him on college sports on Sirius XM, filling in as a host and
0:44.9	obviously a frequent guest.
0:46.7	Andy and I worked at Sports Illustrated for a long time together before we headed over to
0:52.3	The Athletic and pleased to be joined by Andy Staples of
0:56.9	the athletic. Andy, thank you for for popping on today. Appreciate it. Oh, my pleasure. Yeah,
1:01.9	this is lots of emergency podcast floating around these days, Richard. That was a, it was a bomb.
1:09.8	And it's one of those things that we kind of speculated about
1:12.0	and i actually wrote a column i think it was two days after texas and oklahoma said they were going
1:16.8	to the cc last summer that the big 10 should raid the pack 12 but it's one of those until that
1:22.3	it actually happens you're like right oh this they're never actually going to do this
1:26.9	they're doing this then they did it all right so i want to i'm they're never actually going to do this.
1:28.5	They're doing this.
1:29.2	Then they did it.
1:29.6	All right.
1:33.9	So I want to, I'm going to, I'm going to start with sort of a very broad, writ large kind of question about what happened.
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