Will ESPN's Deal With Penn Be A "Bad Beat?"
CzabeCast
Steve Czaban
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Czabe is joined by ANDY POLLIN to discuss what has the little four-letter cable network in the Connecticut woods become, and will their massive purchase of Penn Gambling really propel them to a solid business growth path? Anybody remember the ESPN Zone and the ESPN Phone? We also talk about the "end stage" of where the professionalization of college sports is, and discuss the Jay Bilas vs. Arkansas AD twitter spat. MORE....
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| 1:40.0 | the month gone? Andy Poland joins us now and Andy, you remember when ESPN was the entertainment |
| 1:48.6 | and sports programming network? Right. Yeah. In the day, 1979, the entertainment and sports |
| 1:59.1 | programming network, they were desperate to put whatever they had the rights to on the |
| 2:05.1 | air, right? George Bowdenheimer, who founded the network back. No, no, no. Bowdenheimer |
| 2:10.6 | came along much later. Who was the original guy that founded ESPN? I was in charge of it. |
| 2:18.1 | Now you think about that. I just want to point this out. I think they've become a gambling |
| 2:23.6 | company and they just haven't really told people yet. When it is, they just made a deal |
| 2:30.7 | with Penn, which used to be involved with Arsenal. No, they're, they jump right in on gambling. |
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