Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.

Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Terrence Malagon.

We will get into this right away. The guest is John O'Rand, the Fine Sports Media Reporter for the Sports Business Daily and Sports Business Journal.

I do not need to introduce his resume into this podcast because he has, I believe, been on probably more times than anyone else.

John, welcome back.

This is great.

This is almost like my podcast, Richard.

You should actually get one.

I mean, given your place in the industry, given that you know the movers and shakers, you have Burke Magnus and Jimmy Pitaro on speed dial and Eric Shanks. You know, you can text him. I think, John, I see a podcast in your future. You know, possibly, possibly we'll see.

There's a terrible segue by me. I'll try to do better here.

So, all right, John, the news just broke. Literally, we're taping this, and this just came out 10 minutes ago.

So we're right on the news here. The NFL has made some changes specific to television.

First off, they have decided to move the Sunday

divisional playoff games from the traditional 1 and 4th slot, 1 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Eastern, to 3 p.m.

Eastern and 6.30 Eastern. And they're also dropping the single header rule, meaning that all markets will get at least three Sunday afternoon games.

Very interesting. Seems to me, John, all geared towards television.

How did you read those moves by the NFL?

You know, this is something that TV networks have been clamoring for for a while for its long time and been doing this.

I mean, the idea of moving

playoff games later into the uh into the afternoon to where one of them actually goes in prime time

i mean that that's everything that the NFL that the NFL tv partners want to do i mean it brings

more viewers in it helps shore a prime time, which has been a

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