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Boomer & Gio

Will ESPN Ruin Red Zone?

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A caller is worried about ESPN buying NFL Network and Red Zone and ruining it. Then more Pebble Beach blathering.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brendan and Nutley, who joins us on the fan.

0:02.0

What's up, Brendan?

0:03.3

Hey, I don't know if you guys heard, but ESPN's buying NFL Red Zone, apparently.

0:09.0

And from what I was told by somebody was, no more Scott Hansen.

0:13.1

It's apparently going to be Stephen A. Smith.

0:16.6

No, no, no.

0:18.0

There's no way in hell he's doing that.

0:20.7

I hope not. Scott Hansen's like a priest. That's like church on a Sunday to me. Now he is being taken over? I thought Scott Hansen renewed his contract. Tell me if I'm wrong. He did. I'm probably wrong. You're probably right, to be honest with it. And, you know, ESPN is going to acquire the NFL network that means of course

0:38.5

red zone and everything else that goes along with it and they're going to be rebranding the whole

0:44.1

ESPN thing and everything's going to be known as ESPN and it's probably going to cost direct

0:49.4

to consumer about 30 bucks a month if you want it yeah i pay about like 10 a month through like a Verizon package, I think. Yeah, I don't know how that's going to work. I don't know if that's still going to be offered. We'll have to wait and see and determine what ESPN wants to do here. But I think the direct the consumer, if you want it, like we have ESPN plus now yeah and we pay for that and

1:12.3

you get other things that you can watch on on your phone and your iPad I think that they are

1:17.4

getting rid of the plus just calling everything that they have under their one umbrella ESPN and

1:22.9

you can buy a direct consumer for 30 bucks all right So that's just red zone we're talking about.

1:29.9

I think it's not, it's not the Sunday ticket or any of that.

1:33.6

No, no.

1:34.2

Sunday ticket is YouTube TV.

1:36.4

All right.

1:36.8

So it's just Red Zone.

1:38.4

Then anything that the NFL network was doing.

1:40.7

I believe that they will have NFL network.

1:43.3

I'm assuming they're absorbing the entire

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