John Ourand on the immediate future of the NFL on television and streaming services

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Episode 133 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation with Sports Business Daily media writer John Ourand on the NFL media rights. In this podcast, Ourand and Deitsch discuss where things stand between the football-airing networks and the NFL regarding a rights extension; why John believes CBS and NBC are the furthest along in the deal; the money gap between Disney and the NFL and whether that can be bridged; why some ESPNers believe they have more leverage today than they did in 2011; what ESPN would owe distributors if it jettisoned the NFL; what ESPN would look like without an NFL rights contract; Amazon’s role for Thursday Night Football; the change in Disney leadership impacting the NFL deal; how much of an increase the NFL is likely looking at for its rights; ViacomCBS using the NFL to drive subscriptions to Paramount+; whether there will be a gold rush for soccer rights on streaming and much 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. Welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antenetti and Sean Cherry. Today's guest, it is a familiar one, John O'Rand from the Sports Business Daily and Sports Business Journal is back.
0:23.4	Read his fine work at that excellent publication.
0:28.2	If you're a subscriber, they just have a new website relaunch,
0:33.1	which I'm sure they're incredibly excited about, a lot more video, a lot more podcasting on there.
0:38.5	So shout out to your designers and IT people, John.
0:41.3	And welcome back to the Sports Media Podcast.
0:44.9	We are going to, John, stick to NFL media rights.
0:46.0	I know you love this topic.
0:48.8	You've done some great reporting on it, so I'm excited to talk to you today.
0:53.1	There's a story a day, Richard, that comes out, it seems, on inching it forward.
0:55.9	But it's ultimately the same story that we've been talking about for the past six months, I think.
0:58.5	John, I'm going to cut your break here. We're not going to talk about any PR people, and we're
1:01.7	not going to do politics. So, congrats to you. Great. You're going to be okay. I don't have
1:05.6	to rank the PR people at the end of the show. Not this week. All right. All right. So let's do a little bit of a broad overview here.
1:14.0	As of, as we are taping this, heading into the first week of March, last week of February,
1:21.4	where do things stand in the negotiations between the television, we'll call them television entities, but between the media
1:32.0	companies interested in the NFL and the NFL itself?
1:35.3	Let's start with the easy ones. CBS, they were desperate to keep the NFL.
1:43.6	CBS sports is run by Sean McManus.
1:45.8	He came aboard when CBS didn't have the NFL.
1:49.2	He remembered what time was like when CBS didn't have the NFL,
1:53.5	and they just merged with Viacom,
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