The NFL Takes A 10 Percent Stake in ESPN

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 534 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, the editor and founder of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss Disney/ESPN acquiring the NFL Network and substantial rights to RedZone, along with other content assets, in exchange for the NFL getting a 10 percent ownership stake in ESPN; how we see the deal; the game inventory ESPN receives; what it means for ESPN's coverage of the NFL; the formal announcement of a launch date — Aug. 21 — for ESPN’s new direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming service; the rights agreement for ESPN DTC to become the exclusive U.S. domestic home of all WWE Premium Live Events (PLEs), including WrestleMania; the NFL extending ESPN’s rights to cover the NFL Draft through 2030 and expanding the Disney networks where the draft can air, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 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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1:29.1	Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. I would call this an emergency podcast or a mini pod, however you want to call it. And let me say at the top, I am away from our usual studio setup. Did not expect to have to tape.
1:31.1	So my apologies in advance.
1:35.8	This will probably sound like I'm on the phone with my guest. But I wanted to get something in because of the obvious significance of the ESPN news, which in the NFL, which we will get to in a second.
1:45.0	So apologies for the sound quality.
1:46.6	It'll be back to the usual sound quality for the next podcast.
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