Soccer TV Rights in the US With John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Grant has an in-depth conversation about US soccer TV rights with John Ourand, a longtime reporter for the Sports Business Journal. Ourand explains why NBC is putting marquee games like the upcoming Liverpool-Man United showdown on the Peacock pay-streaming channel; why he thinks NBC will win the rights to extend its Premier League coverage; what's behind CBS's entree into the soccer space; whether he thinks Fox, which has lost several soccer deals, will keep its World Cup rights through 2026; why he's concerned about MLS's ability to get more money in its next TV contract; his thoughts on the TV attractiveness of a potential MLS-Liga MX merger down the line; and what could happen with the free-vs-pay TV strategies of Spanish-language vs. English-language coverage of the UEFA Champions League. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in Spain’s La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it only costs as little as $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall.
0:09.6	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.3	Today's interview guest is John O'Rand, a terrific media reporter
0:16.3	for the Sports Business Journal, who joins me for a really interesting discussion on the
0:21.8	soccer television rights landscape in the
0:24.5	United States. We've had some great guests lately including soccer girl
0:29.0	problems, Lea Nied Slutski, and Ted Lasso's Jason Soudecus and Brendan Hunt.
0:36.0	I also encourage you to listen to my new podcast series, American Prodigy, The Freddie Edo
0:41.7	Story, all seven main episodes are out and you can binge all of them to your
0:46.9	hearts content. Now here's my interview with John O'Rand.
0:50.9	We're going to talk today about the ever-changing world of soccer television rights in the United States.
0:59.0	Our guest is John O'RAN, who's a longtime media reporter for the Sports Business Journal.
1:06.2	You can find him on Twitter at Orand-
1:09.2	S-B-J, that's O-U-R-A-N-D-S-B-J.
1:14.6	John, thanks so much for coming on the show.
1:16.3	Happy New Year.
1:17.3	Happy New Year to you, Grant.
1:18.5	Thanks for having me.
1:19.3	This is a special treat to be on your soccer pod, man. I couldn't let Richard Dyche take you too often without getting you on my show. I enjoy listening to you on his podcast as well talking about sports media rights.
1:33.4	And we're a soccer podcast, and we're
1:35.3	going to focus on soccer today, but you've
1:37.1	done some really good reporting for a long time now,
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