ESPN President, Burke Magnus
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Episode 583 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with ESPN President, Burke Magnus.
Magnus talks about fallout from the YouTubeTV-Disney carriage dispute, whether ESPN has a public relations problem and what the new deal with YouTubeTV means for cable companies.
Burke also shares his desire to get more episodes of "Inside the NBA" on ESPN in the future and how the partnership with Turner Sports for "Inside the NBA" is going,
Other topics discussed include the possibility of Scott Van Pelt moving into "Around the Horn's" old timeslot, Molly Qerin's departure from the network, the various Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith controversies, Paul Finebaum possibly leaving ESPN for politics, whether "Monday Night Football" doubleheaders are dead, how the new partnership with the WWE is going and much more.
The podcast wraps up with the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment featuring Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY in New York.
This week, Jimmy gives a couple of shout-outs to listeners before the fellas discuss a couple of documentaries they watched, the cost of going to the movies and the Thanksgiving football games.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:05.2 | Thank you so much for listening over this Thanksgiving break. |
| 0:08.2 | Pod comes out a day earlier so you guys can enjoy the holiday without a new pod on Thanksgiving. |
| 0:14.3 | But hopefully, if you don't get to it Wednesday, you listen over the holidays, Thanksgiving and that Friday off. |
| 0:19.5 | So appreciate you guys checking out. |
| 0:21.0 | We have a mega episode because we have the president of ESPN, Burke Magnus on the show, |
| 0:26.9 | gave me a full hour. |
| 0:28.5 | And we go through everything you want to know about ESPN right now. |
| 0:32.1 | What's going on inside the NBA, McAfee, Stephen A. Smith, is SVP going to five o'clock, the YouTube carriage dispute, |
| 0:41.9 | MLB and the MLB TV app going to ESPN, ESPN buying the NFL network. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm leaving out a bunch of other things. |
| 0:51.3 | Malikira, I'm leaving first take, a bunch of topics with |
| 0:55.9 | the president of ESPN, Berk Magnus, all on this podcast, followed, of course, by the train |
| 1:00.3 | of thought segment with my buddy, Sal Lekata. So check that out and let me know what you think. And |
| 1:06.1 | if you've missed any episodes over recent weeks, you have some time here over the long weekend to |
| 1:10.4 | catch up. Make sure you do. We had Al Michaels and Richard Deich on the show last week. Kyle Brandt from the NFL network a couple weeks ago. Greg Olson, Chris Maddog, Rousseau, recent guests as well. All right. So check those out. If you miss them, subscribe to SI Media with Jimmyimmy trainer subscribe or follow whatever it is and uh |
| 1:28.8 | have a great holiday let's get to it esp and president burke magnus followed by trainer thoughts |
| 1:34.8 | all right here right now on s i media with jimmy trainer all right joining me now very happy to have |
| 1:44.0 | him back second appearance here on s i media with Jimmy Trina. A lot to go through here because he is the president of ESPN. He is Burke Magnus. Burke, happy Thanksgiving. How are you? Great. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Love this week. One of my favorite weeks of the year. So happy to be with you. |
| 2:07.7 | About 10 seconds before we jumped on this, I got an ESPN release that you're doing a triple header the day before Thanksgiving on Wednesday with a five o'clock NBA game on a Wednesday. |
| 2:13.1 | I like that. That's always good. I don't know. But do you play a part in that decision with the NBA? |
| 2:18.8 | Or is that all the NBA? |
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