Sports Media Reporter John Ourand

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 36 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation with Sports Business Daily media writer John Ourand. In this podcast, we discuss the potential viewership for this year’s Super Bowl in Atlanta; ESPN’s interest in getting a Super Bowl game in the future and the potential cost to get in that rotation; what kind of Super Bowl broadcast ESPN/ABC might put on; ESPN’s NFL journalism; Ourand’s story on the Big 12 conference shopping the 2019, 2021 and 2023 championship games to media companies; Endeavor move into streaming; the latest on Disney’s sale of the RSNs; the Monday Night Football booth for 2019; whether the Wizards should trade Bradley Beal to the Raptors for Pascal Siakam and O.G. Anunoby, and much 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.
0:04.9	My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:07.1	Our guest this week is a familiar one.
0:10.4	It is someone who has been on this podcast many times.
0:12.7	John O'Rand is the fine media reporter for the Sports Business Daily and Sports Business Journal.
0:18.7	And he joins us for 45, 50 minutes of sports media conversation.
0:23.6	Good morning, John.
0:25.3	Hey, Richard, I got the coveted solo spot this week.
0:27.9	That's pretty cool.
0:29.4	Yes, no Chad Finn, no Robert Lattel.
0:32.0	I'm going to put this on my resume.
0:33.2	I'm going to put this on your resume.
0:36.6	So that and $2.75 will get you on the New York subway.
0:42.7	So here's where I want to start, John. There's a lot of places we can go. But first, I want to start off with the NFL. And obviously, it's been an incredible year for them in terms of viewership, competitive games, young, dynamic
0:56.1	quarterbacks that you want to watch, great offense.
0:59.2	And as I look and we're taping this prior to the championship games, the thing about the NFL
1:04.3	John, this year in particular, that's interesting to me, is that they don't have a bad Super Bowl
1:08.9	matchup.
1:09.9	You know, with the four teams that are left, if you sort of mix and match and figure out or combine whatever the potential matchup would be,
1:16.4	they have a great matchup in that game.
1:20.1	And I think potentially a record setter, specifically marketing-wise, I think if you get Breeze Brady and that game is close at the end,
1:30.6	it is amazing to me. The NFL can go from, you know, viewership being a problematic narrative
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