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The Town with Matthew Belloni

The NFL Sunday Ticket Bidding War and How Peyton and LeBron Went Hollywood

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by co-head and partner at WME Sports Josh Pyatt to discuss why broadcasters are seeing huge paydays, which streaming service needs NFL Sunday Ticket the most, what effect the Manning-cast will have on future broadcasts, why some athletes succeed in building an entertainment business while others fail, and more. Matt finishes the show with a take on NFL announcers. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Josh Pyatt Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, my taste buds. It is your hungry homie, Joe House, here to tell you about the latest

0:07.6

installment of House of Carps. On the ringer Food Network, we are doing munch madness.

0:18.1

Eight of the most underrated college food towns in America. We're trying to find a

0:24.0

succulent Cinderella story. Won't you join us? Listen now on Ringer Food. Hello everyone. It's

0:32.8

March 23rd. Today's show. We are chatting with Josh Piot. Josh is the co-head of sports at William Morse Endeavour.

0:39.3

He's a talent agent that reps athletes when they want to become movie stars or at least movie players.

0:44.3

He's got LeBron. He helped do the Manning cast on ESPN 2.

0:48.3

We'll talk a little bit about sports rights. Everything's going nuts right now.

0:52.3

Amazon, Apple, all these new entrants into the sports

0:55.4

game. Who's going to get Sunday ticket? Josh will break it down for us. I actually personally

0:59.8

think Amazon's going to get it, but we'll see. Josh has a take. I do want to do a small

1:04.8

victory lap. Shocker, the West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler, it was announced yesterday,

1:10.2

is going to the Oscars after all, after she put on Instagram that she was hoping for a miracle for a ticket.

1:17.3

Lucas and I on Monday show predicted that yes, they would absolutely bring her to the show.

1:22.6

Now she's going to be a presenter.

1:25.0

So problem solves. Spielberg doesn't have to be embarrassed. He won't

1:28.8

be asked about it on the red carpet. Everybody's happy. It's happily ever after. Totally

1:34.1

predictable. It's funny how these scandals work out. With that, let's go on to Josh Piot. I'm

1:40.4

Matt Bellany and this is the town.

1:48.0

All right, we are here with Josh Piot.

1:52.7

Josh Piot is the co-head of sports at William Morris Endeavor, the talent agency.

2:00.1

Now, that's a bit of a misnomer because you do not, for the most part, do athlete deals for their sports endeavors.

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