San Jose Mercury News reporter Jon Wilner on Pac-12 media rights and the future of that conference, and Sweeny Murti on leaving sports station WFAN and joining MLB Media as a senior contributor

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Episode 283 of the Sports Media podcast features San Jose Mercury News reporter Jon Wilner, who authors the “Pac-12 Hotline” column, and Sweeny Murti, an MLB Media as a senior contributor. In this podcast, Wilner discusses where things stand with Pac-12 media rights negotiations; Amazon’s conceptual interest in a Friday night window; the interests of ESPN, Apple and Amazon; the likely time frame of a deal; the potential dollars each school is looking at annually; the proximity of Pac-12 schools to Amazon and Apple; the likely end of the Pac-12 Networks; the basketball and Olympic sport programs of the Pac-12; whether Washington can emerge as a bigger football power and more. Murti discusses his new job for MLB Media after a 30-year year run at New York sports station WFAN; how his new job came about; working 22 years as a New York Yankees reporter; how he feels about WFAN management today; the biggest challenge covering the Yankees every day; Derek Jeter joining Fox and what Murti’s expectations are of Jeter as a broadcaster; the future of sport-talk radio and 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, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:10.0	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:11.6	Two guests this week, two excellent conversations.
0:13.8	First off, San Jose Mercury News reporter John Wilner, he has been at the forefront of Pac 12 media rights reporting he is an expert on the
0:24.5	pack 12 and we discuss where the meteorite situation sits at this moment or at least as we
0:31.7	tape this get into all the players who are interested in this product from ESPN to Apple to Amazon, etc.
0:40.6	And again, John has just been so good on this topic.
0:45.0	He's really, really well-sourced when it comes to these West Coast schools.
0:49.8	And, you know, if you're a fan or interested in the Washington's and the Oregons and the Colorado's, etc., you will find what he has to say very, very interesting.
1:03.4	He is followed by Sweeney Mertie.
1:05.7	Those of you are on the East Coast, that is a name you certainly are familiar with.
1:10.1	We're at to WFAN for 30 years.
1:12.3	Just an absolutely incredible run in sports radio,
1:15.3	22 years as the New York Yankees reporter for that station.
1:20.2	And he has now joined MLB Media as a senior contributor.
1:25.0	And Sweeney talks about his new job after his long run in New York, how he feels
1:30.1	about the decision by WFAN management to sort of essentially change his job and to and to not have him
1:39.1	be doing what he was doing for so many years. We get into a little bit on Derek Jeter joining Fox and what Sweeney's expectations of him are as a broadcaster.
1:47.5	Obviously, Sweeney covered essentially most of Jeter's career, everything but five years, I think, if I have my math, right.
1:53.5	And then just a little bit on the future of Sports Talk Radio.
1:56.0	Got somebody who was part of one of the biggest stations in the United States for sports talk for 30 years
2:02.9	and has sort of seen a very changing environment when it comes to that.
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