Joe Buck to ESPN, Quarterback Media Transactions, 'Broadcast News,' and a Tribute to Brent Renaud
The Press Box
The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 1:25.3 | Hello, many consumers. Welcome to the press box, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the ringer here along with our producer, Erica Serratis. |
| 1:34.3 | David, I know this is going to shock you, but we had more sports broadcasting news late last week. |
| 1:41.3 | Andrew Martian of the New York Post reported on Friday that Joe Buck is going from Fox to ESPN. |
| 1:50.3 | Following in the path of Troy Ackman, his partner of 20 years, who made the jump last week. |
| 1:57.3 | Over at the athletic Richard Dijche has the contract numbers. Ackman's deal, he writes, will be 92.5 million dollars over five years. |
| 2:07.3 | That's 18.5 million per. And Buck's deal will be 75 million over five years. |
| 2:14.3 | Are there about that's 15 million per. Plus the opportunity to produce some stuff in the ESPN universe. |
| 2:22.3 | I'm still a little bit in shock, even if we could see where this thing was headed. What do you make of now, Buck and Troy Ackman leaving Fox for ESPN? |
| 2:34.3 | What makes sense to the day be going as a package deal. I think that they probably for all the reasons that they're great. |
| 2:41.3 | I think they're probably both wise enough to know that there's a lot of greatness inherent in the partnership. |
| 2:46.3 | And you know, when you're making that kind of money, you probably are, you know, don't want to waste your time being called out on how you weren't as good as you used to be. |
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