Skipper and Samson: Thank You, Snidely Whiplash

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Former Marlins Team President David Samson and Meadowlark CEO John Skipper join Witty for a conversation about the biggest news in the world of sports media/business. They discuss the court case involving the potentially corrupt awarding of World Cup rights in the US, the impending bankruptcy of the Bally Sports networks, LIV Golf's deal with the CW, sports reality series trying to capture the success of Drive to Survive, and Jeff Bezos maybe selling the Washington Post to buy the Washington Commanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dunluba tour show with the Stugat's Podcast.
0:03.9	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.0	Ready for another round of sports business conversation.
0:12.0	We have our sports business and sports media experts here at Metal Arc Media.
0:15.4	David Samson, the host of Nothing Personnel.
0:17.5	You can check that out wherever you get podcasts.
0:19.7	John's is every Thursday on the local hour.
0:21.0	And of course, the CEO of Metal Arc Media, John Skipper, joining us,
0:24.5	to discuss the latest goings-on in the world of sports business.
0:28.1	So I want to start, guys, with a story that appeared in the New York Times recently.
0:32.0	It has to do with a court case involving the winning of Fox's World Cup rights
0:37.3	for the World Cups in 2018 and 2022.
0:39.9	Eventually, that contract was extended to 2026.
0:43.6	And there is a former sports marketing executive.
0:46.4	His name is Alejandro Borzaco, who was based in Argentina.
0:51.1	And he basically has testified that Fox knew the amount of money that it would take
0:57.1	in order to win the World Cup rights in 2018 and 2022.
1:01.4	That number was 400 million over the course of the contract.
1:05.7	And John, I want to start with you.
1:07.6	And will you made it the fact that these numbers and these figures were revealed
1:10.9	in a public forum in a court of law in New York?
1:13.1	Well, anyone who knows me has hurt me complaining at least once
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