WWE, AEW & TV Sports Rights with Pat Crakes | POST x Wrestlenomics
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POST Wrestling
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston welcome Pat Crakes to discuss the sports media industry, major deals on the horizon, and where professional wrestling fits in that space.
They discuss the WWE’s domestic rights package, the battle between linear and streaming platforms, the value of SmackDown to Fox, WBD’s relationship with AEW, and the growth of the UFC.
Crakes is a former SVP of Programming, Research & Content Strategy at Fox Sports and currently runs Crakes Media.
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| 0:33.0 | of Pollock and Thurston. I am John Pollock joined as always by Brandon Thurston from the |
| 0:38.7 | Russell Namix headquarters. Brandon, welcome back. I'm here. You are here. It is lunchtime and we |
| 0:46.0 | have a very special guest with us to dive into the enchanting world of television sports rights. |
| 0:52.8 | He is the head of Craigs Media, a former executive at Fox Sports, a heavy hitter joining us today. |
| 0:59.0 | Pat Craigs is with us and Pat, thank you so much for taking some time to join us. |
| 1:04.0 | I have done my research into you and Pat, you are maybe as smart a mind as we are about to pick |
| 1:10.7 | here. Not setting goals too lofty here but I'm very much looking forward to speaking to you today. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, it's pleasure to be here guys. I appreciate the compliments. I'm certainly a hitter. I don't |
| 1:20.2 | know about heavy. Certainly, I certainly can hit you. I'll hit you. I don't quite sure how much |
| 1:26.1 | damage I'll do exactly but I appreciate that. It's great to be here on the what I would consider |
| 1:32.2 | the Dick Cabot of Congress will show here in the in the 2020s. Well, I will give all that credit |
| 1:40.7 | to one Brandon Thurston. He is pro wrestling Dick Cabot. I feel he would certainly take that |
| 1:46.7 | moniker. I wanted to start to sort of the big picture, Pat, as you know, we are looking, you know, |
| 1:52.3 | obviously me and Brandon kind of come from the professional wrestling side of things. But |
| 1:56.4 | when we see, you know, the NBA rights that are going to be such a massive deal coming up in the |
| 2:03.5 | next few years, what are some of the stories or rights deals that excite you that you are following |
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