The NFL Draft and ESPN layoffs

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Episode 296 of the Sports Media Podcast features CBS Sports NFL analyst Amy Trask and Washington Post staff writer Ben Strauss. In this podcast, Trask, the former CEO of the Raiders, discusses the growth of the NFL Draft; how she watches the NFL Draft today; how she thinks NFL front offices feel about the mock draft; teams giving out NFL Draft misinformation; the search for quarterbacks; Dan Snyder’s tenure; gambling suspensions in a league filled with gambling deals; Wrexham’s incredibly journey, and more. Strauss and Deitsch discusses the ESPN layoffs that were announced this week; why they are happening now; how this will impact high-salaried employees; longtime public relations staffer Mike Soltys announcing that he was part out of the layoffs and why that was a brutal decision; Ben’s piece on how cable changed sports and what happens when fans cut the cord; the local sports TV model; how consumers will be impacted; a potential price point for an all-inclusive direct-to-consumer product 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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0:37.4	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich. Welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week, two excellent conversations. First up, Amy Trask, the CBS Sports NFL analyst, of course, the former CEO of the Raiders. She's always great on multiple NFL topics.
0:54.4	We discussed the growth of the NFL draft,
0:57.0	how she views the draft today,
0:59.0	getting into a little bit about the sort of the imperfect search for quarterbacks,
1:03.2	talk about Dan Snyder's tenure,
1:05.2	gambling suspensions in the league filled with gambling deals,
1:08.8	and then we get into Rex and it was totally smitten with that
1:13.2	club and their incredible run through the National League in English football and incredible
1:19.5	to see them promoted so we finish with that Ben Strauss comes on and we discussed the ESPN
1:24.2	layoffs we had not planned to discuss that but it broke basically as we were taping this so Ben and I discussed the ESPN layoffs. We had not planned to discuss that, but it broke basically as we were taping this.
1:30.4	So Ben and I discussed the ESPN layoffs why they're happening, how it's going to impact employees there.
1:36.8	The brutal decision to let go of longtime public relations staff from Mike Sultz, the second most tenured person at ESPN.
1:45.3	And then we get into the reason Ben was initially coming on here to talk about his piece
1:48.8	on how cable change sports and what happens when fans cut the chord.
1:52.8	So Amy Tresk to start, Ben Strauss to finish coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:59.7	All right, as I said at the top, bringing in one of my favorite people in the sports media business, Amy Trask.
2:05.8	She is a CBS Sports NFL analyst, the author of You Negotiate Like a Girl, the former CEO of the Raiders.
2:15.5	And I'm pleased to be joined by Amy Trask Amy.
2:17.7	Amy, welcome to the sports media podcast.
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