NBC Sports president Rick Cordella
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Episode 572 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Rick Cordella, the president of NBC Sports. In this podcast Cordella discusses his company’s remarkable upcoming set of events in February 2026, including the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games, the Super Bowl and the NBA All-Star Game; what it means business-wise to have all of these properties in such a relative short period; what the events should mean for Peacock subs; the process of how Rebecca Lowe ended up with her studio assignment for Fox Sports during the World Cup; NBCU’s three year rights deal with MLB and what Sunday Night Baseball on NBC, Peacock and NBCSN should look like; why NBC wants to be in the MLB business; the NBA's strong viewership to start the season; the usage of Michael Jordan heading forward; his thoughts on Notre Dame not making the CFB playoffs and Notre Dame's response to that; NBC having the rights to Super Bowl 64 in 2030; Puck’s report that NBC plans to sell Amazon the rights to next year’s Big Ten Championship game, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host, Richard Dodge. |
| 0:10.5 | My producer is Patrick Anthony. |
| 0:12.4 | One guest on this episode, and someone who I always appreciate, has got a very, very big job in my world, but it's always accessible to people |
| 0:22.5 | like myself. Rick Cordella is the president of NBC Sports. That means under the portfolio at NBC |
| 0:28.3 | Universal, his age just includes the Olympics, the NFL, Big Ten, Notre Dame, NASCAR, Premier League, |
| 0:35.3 | PGA, T.J.Tor, Kentucky Derby. I mean, what else should I name? |
| 0:39.1 | Tour de France? I think the big east. |
| 0:41.4 | MLB now. NBA. |
| 0:43.1 | How did I not mention the NBA? MLB? Right. Yeah. Sorry, Rick. I mean, I should get the memo clear. |
| 0:49.3 | Coming up in February, and this is why it's a really good time to have Rick on. NBC slash Peacock have |
| 0:55.9 | the Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games, obviously more outlets than that. NBC also has the Super |
| 1:02.7 | Bowl. NBC also has the NBA All-Star game. That is really just an incredible stretch of |
| 1:09.1 | massive global appeal events under one company. |
| 1:14.2 | And the person who will be one of the key players on that is Rick Cordella. |
| 1:17.8 | And I welcome him, welcome him to the sports media podcast. Hey, Rick. |
| 1:21.5 | Richard, thank you for having me. Appreciate it. Good to be here. You got a busy week or busy, |
| 1:25.3 | busy, busy couple of months coming up, I should say. Not a busy week. Well, to be busy than bore. All right. So let's start here, as I mentioned. The Super Bowl is February 8th, 2026 Levi Stadium. The NBA All-Star game, that's somewhere in California this year, right? Los Angeles. Into Los Angeles.eles okay right i shouldn't know the stuff time i had |
| 1:44.2 | february 15th and then of course the winter olympic game start february 6th and run through |
| 1:50.6 | february 22nd um which would be the men's hockey gold medal game on february 22nd check the ice |
| 1:58.6 | dimensions let's let's hope the italians that. Um, so Rick, here's |
| 2:02.6 | where I want to start. Like, um, you, you, you, you know, you have a long career, your centerpiece |
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