The Season with Peter Schrager: Crafting the 2024 Season Schedule with Mike North, NFL VP of Broadcast Planning
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Peter sits down with Vice President of Broadcast Planning at the NFL Mike North for their annual schedule rundown. North gives us a behind the scenes look at how it all came together, what to expect from the Netflix Christmas Day games, how Tom Brady's first game was decided, and the impact of Taylor Swift's tour on the NFL schedule.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.0 | The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. |
| 0:22.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:24.7 | Cool episode of the season with Peter Schroger. |
| 0:27.1 | We're recording this Thursday morning. |
| 0:30.5 | The NFL schedules came out Wednesday evening. |
| 0:33.3 | But the teams got them Tuesday night. |
| 0:35.2 | And my guest is one of my favorites. |
| 0:38.7 | It's Mike North, the vice president of broadcast planning. |
| 0:43.7 | With no further ado, let's get Mike on the bone. Mike, what's up, man? |
| 0:45.5 | Neater, good to see you, buddy. Good morning. |
| 0:52.1 | Great to see you. You and I seem to be texting about the schedule over a 12-month period, but we're talking about if the Jets finish in third and not fourth, |
| 0:55.8 | and the Packers finish in third and not fourth, does that mean we get a potential Rogers game |
| 1:00.0 | and group? That's the stuff we do during the year. And now that the schedule is out there and it's done |
| 1:05.0 | and it's been put to bed, what is the feeling the morning after knowing there are no changes |
| 1:10.1 | to be made? And this is the schedule that everyone is knowing there are no changes to be made? |
| 1:16.8 | And this is the schedule that everyone is going to be dealing with for the next eight to ten months. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, I mean, that's honestly the weirdest part about this. |
| 1:25.1 | You know, usually you, what, working on a big project, you get instant feedback, you know, |
| 1:26.7 | turn in a paper, you get a grade. |
| 1:28.6 | Like, we don't even grade it on this until the season's over. So you're talking eight months away before anybody even really does |
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