The Sporting Class: Amazon Primed to Enter NBA Rights World, Leaves TNT vs NBC Battle

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Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.6 • 31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper and Nothing Personal's David Samson are back with another episode of The Sporting Class with host of Pablo Torre Finds Out ... Pablo Torre! It’s all about the NBA and its media rights. Amazon has entered the ring. ESPN is staying in the ring. What about TNT? Are they going to be passed up by NBC? This is a major, major deal! Could it be the last? Plus, Paramount is out of a CEO as Bob Bakish has "stepped down". What happened here? Is a merger with Skydance coming? What does this mean for the power brokers of the TV & Movie world? Let’s get to the final thoughts of the show. Here’s what’s left over that was on our minds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. This is the Dan Laboratory show with the Stuckoo's podcast.
0:15.0	David's System for Life involves bracelets,
0:21.0	involves tapping this table in a way that picks up sound.
0:24.9	I was trying, I thought that John had mess here.
0:27.3	No, it's not me.
0:28.2	It's already, it's a capital expenditure that we need.
0:30.4	If you're not watching on YouTube or the Drafting News Network.
0:32.7	John Skipper has his chief of papers.
0:34.6	As always, David Sampson has his array of bracelets
0:37.6	and other secret things in pockets
0:39.3	that make him feel like he can do the show
0:41.2	and exist in the world. And I'm here to ask them questions about a world
0:45.5	that is increasingly chaotic and now fast moving when it comes to the NBA and so I want to get
0:51.4	to this immediately John because the NBA and so I want to get to this immediately John because the
0:53.4	NBA has been your account at the ESPN and now the NBA has a new partner in
0:58.4	Amazon and we've been talking about this dancing around the possibility of what is
1:02.2	in this marketplace for the
1:03.3	NBA as they renew these long-term deals and so what has happened that has caught
1:09.0	your eye as Amazon is now a partner of the National Basketball Association.
1:13.3	Well, I'll caution us, we don't know if they're a partner yet and deals do fall apart.
1:19.8	No, I don't know.
1:21.8	I think it is the likely outcome, and I think it's a logical outcome,
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