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Welcome everybody to a very special May edition of the season with Peter Schroger.

It's schedule release time.

And I thought this was very pertinent and also very timely to do this today, which we are recording this on the Wednesday before the schedule

is officially released on Thursday. And let me tell you, it will be released on Thursday,

but you'll start getting your leaks on Thursday morning. The reason is the schedule makers

have come to their conclusion with the final schedule and they have started notifying the teams. So for today's guests, we're going to have on Mike North, who is part

of the team that puts the schedule together. For years, it was a gentleman named Howard

Katz, and Howard Still is very much involved, but Howard deals with the broadcast teams and the

executives at not only CBS and Fox, but now ESPN,

and also Amazon, and of course the NFL network as well.

And they figure out the best possible schedules that is going to satisfy as many parties as possible.

That's their job. We're going to have mic on in a second.

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