ESPN 4 SALE

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is looking for a “strategic partner” to invest in the massive sports network, which has been struggling in an era of cord-cutting. Peter Kafka explains what it could mean for fans. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mickey Mouse owns a lot of things.
0:06.0	The mouse owns those guys.
0:08.0	It's not easy.
0:10.0	Being green.
0:12.0	The mouse owns these guys.
0:14.0	The mouse has this entire cinematic universe.
0:20.0	And this one.
0:22.0	And the one with that lamp that jumps around.
0:37.0	It'd probably be easier to talk about what Disney doesn't own.
0:40.0	Which is maybe fitting because Disney is now trying to at least kind of get rid of one of its darlings.
0:46.0	Is ESPN for sale?
0:54.0	Coming up on today's point.
1:02.0	To explain to Sean Ramosfer, I'm here with Peter Kafka, host of the recode media podcast.
1:09.0	The perfect person to ask is Disney really looking to sell of all things.
1:15.0	ESPN.
1:17.0	No.
1:22.0	Now add an asterisk.
1:24.0	Add an asterisk that Sean.
1:26.0	Because the person who says no, we're not looking to sell ESPN is Bob Eiger.
1:30.0	If you look at today's media landscape, sports stands very, very tall in terms of its ability to convene millions and millions of people all at once.
1:39.0	And our position in that business is very unique.
1:43.0	And we want to stay in that business.
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