Puck's John Ourand on NFL's Media Rights Future

SI Media With Jimmy Traina

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Episode 596 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with Puck sports media reporter, John Ourand.

Ourand explains what’s going on with the NFL television rights deals, which will take place later this year. Is there any chance CBS or Fox could lose their Sunday packages? How much more of the pie will streaming services get? Will the NFL diminish Sunday Ticket? Are we doing to see more playoff games on streaming platforms?

In addition, Ourand shares thoughts on what ESPN will do with the NFL Network, which they recently purchased, the NBA’s new deal with Amazon and where things with Fox keeping the World Series and much more.

Following Ourand, Peter Schrager from ESPN fills in for Sal Licata and joins Jimmy for the weekly “Traina Thoughts segment. Topics covered with Schrager is the non-stop NFL schedule, his best celebrity interaction during Super Bowl week, dealing with the big blizzard that hit the the East Coast, a couple of Larry David-esque moments, his iced coffee addiction, television recommendations and more.

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1:17.2	Welcome everyone to s i media with jimmy trainer thank you so much for listening today's show we have a sly media podcast regular john o'ran from puff
1:22.9	getting to all of the latest sports media news. This one's very inside sports media.
1:27.7	A lot of stuff with the NFL with their upcoming rights.
1:31.3	What's going on at ESPN and NFL network?
1:34.6	What could happen to NFL football on Sunday afternoon, Sunday ticket?
1:39.4	A lot of NFL stuff there with Mr. Oran.
1:43.3	Also touch on the NBA and we touch on MLB and sort of the streaming world we're living in.
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