HOUR 2: Breaking Down Latest TV Rights News, In Football Today
The Valenti Show
Audacy
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The guys kick off hour 2 discussing TNT losing their NBA rights, which leads into a larger conversation about all the recent news surrounding sports leagues and how they'll be televised next year. Mike and Rico rip these leagues and the TV executives, asking if they're ruining sports as we know it. Then, they wrap up the hour reacting to some of their receipts from early in the 2023 NFL season.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, never change Greg. Ever. |
| 0:03.0 | By the way, did you hear the other day, |
| 0:06.0 | Greg tried to pop on the air and make a joke? |
| 0:09.0 | And there was complete silence for like six seconds. And then he comes back on and he goes yeah it was a joke. |
| 0:20.2 | Son everybody knows that it was bad the first time. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh boy cookies and John hung him out to dry not even Heather tried to save him. |
| 0:28.0 | What was a joke? |
| 0:29.0 | It was like a bad one-liner and yeah no one tried to save him I mean Greg fell out of the boat in the morning and they |
| 0:36.9 | just let his ass drown no one tried to save poor Greg not even old to come see. Now let's get to more relevant matters. |
| 0:47.0 | Look, I don't know. Maybe half of you were driving up 75 right now. I don't know how this will land |
| 0:55.4 | but we got to take the news when it happens and I think there's a bit of sad news as a sports fan |
| 1:02.4 | and a sports television fan. So if you hate the sport, just bear with me because it's really just a micro of the macro. |
| 1:10.0 | Inside the NBA is dead. |
| 1:14.8 | Next year will be its final year, because RICO's evil overlords at the networks, |
| 1:20.8 | the NBA rights are going to be taken from TNT and that'll mean no more Ernie no more Kenny no more Chuck no more shack it's over |
| 1:30.1 | It truly is the last vestige of a great pre-or post-game show in any sport. So we have one more year. Yes. |
| 1:37.0 | But the point is there will no longer be the NBA on TNT. See that's Blue Magic. That's a brand name. The NBA and |
| 1:46.7 | TNT makes sense. Feels right. The graphics are familiar. The song, the |
| 1:52.2 | pre the post, all of it dead now the m b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b c m b c m b c oo l oo r l b r l b r l b r l bor bor dot net and streaming out w is at.com so it's it's just another thing |
| 2:07.7 | taken now that comes on the heels of the big grandiose Friday night college football slate. |
| 2:15.0 | Man, there ain't a fart noise big enough for me to tell you my feelings on that. |
| 2:20.0 | I don't need Big Ten football on Friday night. |
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