How to watch college football in 2021 (and beyond) w/ Ralph Russo
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Associated Press College Football keyboard commander, Ralph Russo, examine how college football will be consumed in 2021 and beyond. Could Peacock, NBC's streaming service, usher in a new Renaissance of college football consumption with their exclusive game rights to Notre Dame v. Toledo? How so? Will fans pay per view to watch their favorite team(s)? Where does SEC coverage rank among Disney's most valuable assets in its portfolio? Will Texas and Oklahoma augment the SEC's value? Also, how will Disney bundle their services in the future? Who is the wildcard in the streaming space?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show, a how to watch edition. |
| 0:14.3 | You know how to listen here. |
| 0:16.5 | We're available wherever podcasts are available. |
| 0:19.3 | But how to watch our favorite sport of college football |
| 0:22.1 | seems to get more complicated by the day. And so I'm bringing on my friend Ralph Russo, one of our |
| 0:28.1 | most dedicated listeners, but he also covers college football for the Associated Press, because he |
| 0:33.0 | and I had a conversation on his podcast that I think got a lot more interesting this week with some |
| 0:38.8 | news. Ralph, when you heard that Toledo Notre Dame was going to be broadcast exclusively on |
| 0:46.2 | Peacock's premium tier, that's NBC streaming service, what were you thinking? I was thinking, |
| 0:52.7 | oh, this is a glimpse into the future. And we've already seen little |
| 0:56.5 | glimpses of this, right? That at some point, this is the first step toward NBC saying, |
| 1:03.2 | okay, Notre Dame fans, how badly do you want to watch Notre Dame? Like, how many of you can we get? Because we need to bulk up peacock, right? |
| 1:13.3 | Peacock is going to be, eventually Peacock may just be NBC, right? Eventually all of this to be |
| 1:20.2 | streaming and you're going to be paying for everything you watch, good listeners out there. |
| 1:25.1 | In our lifetimes, you will be paying for everything. There'll be no more. |
| 1:28.2 | Maybe you'll turn on the TV and get weather, right? You'll get some low news. And that'll be the |
| 1:33.4 | only thing that won't. Or the dedicated, there's a dedicated kitchen nightmares channel that is on one |
| 1:39.0 | of the free smart TV channels on my living room TV where you turn it on and Gordon Ramsey is yelling at you. |
| 1:45.7 | So maybe that's the only thing that'll be free. |
| 1:47.7 | In New York, if you ever been through New York, it'll be New York One. |
| 1:51.2 | New York One is a dedicated New York News channel. |
| 1:55.1 | Only New York. |
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