James Andrew Miller and Anthony Crupi on the NFL’s new media deals

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode 136 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch examines the NFL media deals. The guests are Jim Miller, James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author of books on CAA, ESPN and Saturday Night Live and the host of the “Origins” podcast, and Anthony Crupi, the sports media reporter for Sportico. Miller focuses on the ESPN deal and what it means for that network including getting in the Super Bowl rotation; more flexibility for games; and the historical nature of the deal. Crupi discusses the deals made by CBS, Fox, NBC and Amazon including why each outlet decided to focus on what they did; why the NFL wanted to keep the traditional broadcasters; what it means for Amazon to get exclusivity for Thursday Night Football; 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 Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry.
0:13.1	Two guests this week. The topic is the NFL's new media deals. Two excellent guests who really, I think, provided a lot of information for you if you're
0:21.7	into this stuff. James Andrew Miller, best selling author of books on CAA, ESPN and Saturday
0:26.4	Live, and the host of the Origins podcast. He focuses on ESPN, naturally so. Guy wrote the definitive
0:32.2	book on them and what their NFL media rights deal means to that company.
0:40.8	And then we bring on Anthony Crupi, the sports media reporter for Sportico,
0:43.1	one of the best in the business at covering this stuff.
0:54.0	And Crupi does the rest of the media deals from CBS to Fox to NBC to Amazon. And so we, you know, we go through all of those different entities,
1:00.3	what they got from the NFL, why they wanted it, and how it will ultimately shake out. So if you're
1:06.6	into the NFL and you want some insight into what all these billions of dollars are going to ultimately
1:11.8	bring to you listen to this podcast first up james andrew miller followed by anthony croopy
1:17.0	coming up on the sports media podcast all right as i said at the top we bring in uh jim miller
1:26.3	who's a regular contributor to this podcast, bestselling author of books on CAA, ESPN, Saniat Live, host of the Origins podcast, which is a Cadence 13 product as well.
1:38.7	And Jim, thank you for joining me today.
1:41.0	We are going to be with you specific to the ESPN deal. And so the,
1:46.9	you know, me and you have, it feels like we've been talking for years now about one of Jimmy
1:55.1	Pataro, the chairperson or chairman of ESPN, you know, perhaps his biggest charter was to rehab, if that's the right
2:03.1	word, the relationship between ESPN and the NFL with a goal of ultimately getting a long-term
2:09.8	deal with the NFL and doing better than they had in previous years. And as we now talk, Jim,
2:15.7	a couple days after these deal has been announced, I feel like
2:18.9	Jimmy Pottaro has been successful.
2:21.1	They extended for, you know, the 10 years that everybody else did.
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