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Andrew Marchand reported in The Athletic that ESPN and Pat McAfee are in negotiations for a $60-$65M per year extension.
Marchand & Puck’s John Ourand go deep into why it may be a smart move and why it may be crazy.
Plus, who will broadcast the World Cup in four years, YouTube’s sports future after being shut out of the NFL and President Trump vs. Stephen A.
It is all in the 36-minute podcast.
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The Rundown …
* Why would ESPN offer McAfee $60-65M per year now
* McAfee has some of the most powerful people in media repping him
* Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro started with a $100M per year proposal
* The value for ESPN of the major commissioners seemingly loving McAfee
* The issues for ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro and Burke Magnus
* What ESPN should really be known for
* What is actually selling ESPN Unlimited
* The reason why you go early if you are McAfee
* How the potential deal could impact other big negotiations
* Who is in the McAfee/Stephen A. tier at ESPN
* In 2030, who will be the broadcast home of the World Cup
* Why Apple may not be counted out of that one, though someone else is Marchand & Ourand’s favorite for the 2030 World Cup
* After failing to pick up more NFL games, what to make of YouTube’s sports future
* Christian Oestlien was The Main Event in Feb. and explained YouTube’s Realignment Vision
* The NFL can’t play bully ball with the big digital companies
* Why there will be no favors later if you give the NFL your milk money now
* Ourand was at Game 3 of The Finals with President Trump
* Larry David’s hand movements during the game
* Trump goes after Stephen A., what happens next
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ESPN currently has the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup night after night. It will have its first Super Bowl in February. Why the World Series could be next.
It is a 30-minute “Everybody Loves Sports Media” podcast with Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel"
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The Rundown ….
* Why ESPN could be eyeing the World Series next …
* How Ray Ferraro has excelled on the Stanley Cup
* Giving ESPN its due for the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup
* LIV Golf has gone from bad to worse
* Fox Sports’ bad luck on a good baseball idea
* Grading Mike Breen, Tim Legler and Richard Jefferson
* How much would you pay for a top ticket to an event
* Why “Inside The NBA” is paying off for ESPN in the Finals
* How Mark Messier has improved
* The chances of ESPN and TNT Sports of getting an early deal done with the NHL
* Why Linda Schulz’ ESPN team on the NHL is doing well
* How to rate the Russell Wilson and Kyle Long hires by CBS’ NFL Today
* The Kevin Burkhardt super power dissected
* Will this be Fox’s last World Cup
* Zlatan Ibrahimović will be a lightning rod
* Rich Eisen’s new SportsCenter lookback special
* Condolences and remembrances for Stacey King, Bryce Adair and Ned Jarrett
* Papa Clicker Book Reviews: Chuck Klosterman’s Football and Giri Nathan’s Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men’s Tennis
* Cakes Are Baking Game: Tedy Bruschi, Udonis Haslem & Christian McCaffery
* Remembering Uncle Allen
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* On Deck: Marchand & Ourand
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Kevin Burkhardt has reached the pinnacle of sportscasting, having called two Super Bowls and hosted countless World Series, but what may separate him is what he does off the camera as much as on … in how he treats others.
Burkhardt discusses his big breaks from a small station in New Jersey to WFAN to SNY to FOX. He goes into detail about the thrill of working with Tom Brady, Greg Olsen, Derek Jeter, David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez.
Burkhardt is the guest on a 36-minute edition of “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
THE RUNDOWN …
* What was shaping Kevin Burkhardt as a kid
* Growing up in North Jersey, his whole family were New York fans, but not Kevin
* Burkhardt was a big MLB radio guy as his family did not have cable
* The influence of WFAN on Burkhardt
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* When Burkhardt entered the business, he wasn’t thinking Super Bowls & World Series
* His first job out of college, he had to worry that the signal wouldn’t work
* The old engineer who mentored Burkhardt
* Why Burkhardt enjoyed and valued the journey
* What was Burkhardt’s first break …. on The FAN & Mike & the Mad Dog
* Marchand says Burkhardt is the best sideline TV reporter ever
* The advice that SNY Mets’ producer, Gregg Picker, gave Burkhardt
* Gary Cohen, Ron Darling & Keith Hernandez’ important move for him
* Curt Gowdy Jr. took Burkhardt up on wanting to do more and made him versatile
* How Burkhardt got his Fox break and legendary director Bill Webb’s influence
* The story behind how Burkhardt was shocked in 2013 when Fox offered him a full NFL play-by-play job
* How he tries to relate to stars like Jeter, Ortiz & Rodriguez, which he is calling a game with on Saturday, June 6th, between the Yankees-Red Sox
* Why Burkhardt raves about Jeter
* Ortiz is a “giant teddy bear”
* How A-Rod really wanted to be good on TV
* Why Pete Rose was a little dicier than the current crew
* Burkhardt covered Olsen’s high school games, which helped their bond
* Olsen’s practice game was unbelievable
* What is the process in terms of getting to know Tom Brady up to speed at Fox
* Brady didn’t do something for TV that most other players do
* M-Fing the GOAT & Brady loving it
* How the relationship with Brady has grown from golf to dinners
* The reactions to Brady when they are out is like the Beatles
* The Brady-Burkhardt strategy to deal with Brady’s fame on the field
* The Micah Parsons & Trevon Diggs picture before a game with Brady
* What it meant to Burkhardt that Brady called him as good a teammate as he has ever had
* The fun they have on set with everyone together
Related Podcasts: Ian Eagle … Joe Buck .. Jim Nantz …Booger McFarland … Jason Benetti … Ryan Ruocco … Boomer Esiason ... Chris Russo … Chris Oliviero
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* On Deck: Marchand & Meterparel
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With the NBA Finals pitting the Knicks vs. Wemby, Adam Silver can’t lose. Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel explain why, plus compare and grade top NBA and MLB broadcasting teams, while going in-depth on a variety of topics in the 36-minute sports media podcast.
— The Headlines: Adam Silver & The Finals, Grading the NBA on NBC, The ABC/ESPN NBA Finals top storyline, Marchand’s Mike Breen column & Ben Stiller & The Top 10 All-Time MLB feedback.
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— What’s Up/What’s Down Candidates: Silver, Alex Rodriguez, NHL on TNT Studio Show, Eric Collins
— The Questions: Where the duo goes in-depth
* Why do Marchand & Meterparel grade NBC’s overall coverage of the NBA the way they do from Mike Tirico to Reggie Miller to Jamal Crawford to nostalgia to Maria Taylor to Carmelo Anthony to Tracy McGrady to Vince Carter and introductions
* Assessing the ESPN booth of Breen, Tim Legler & Richard Jefferson post-Doris Burke on the eve of The Finals
* The Matchup: Tirico/Miller/Crawford vs. Breen/Legler/Jefferson: Who ya got
* Breaking down the Marchand and Ben Stiller tweets as Meterparel gives Marchand a nickname
* The feedback of Meterparel picking Keith Jackson for his Top MLB play-by-players, while Marchand left Bob Costas out of his and more
* What is misunderstood about Joe Buck and the level of scrutiny today
* Why Pete Radovich, last week’s Main Event, has such a good idiom for how soccer should be done and why Fox and Netflix will hopefully follow
* What TNT’s soccer coverage is getting right with its play-by-player Luke Wileman
* Everybody Loves Local: Grading the Boston Red Sox/NESN team of Dave O’Brien, Lou Merloni and reporter Jahmai Webster and does it beat YES’ booth
* Assessing Sports Illustrated laying off Michael Rosenberg, Greg Bishop & Stephanie Apstein
* Cakes are Baking Game (Play Along): Alexi Lalas, Derek Lowe & Morgan Freeman
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* On Deck: Kevin Burkhardt is the Main Event
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CBS Sports VP of Production/Sr. Creative Pete Radovich, Jr. has won 45 Sports Emmys. He has been behind CBS/Paramount+’s excellent Champions League coverage and has some of the greatest creative pieces in the fabled network’s history. Radovich is the guest on a 35-minute “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
The Rundown …
* How Radovich’s job works from the opening teases of Super Bowls to Champions League
* How do you cut through in a second screen world
* Why Radovich & his team have leaned in to the human interest angles
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* The CBS 2018 John Malkovich classic before the AFC Championship game
* How do he get Malkovich to do it
* The reaction it received globally even eight years later
* Winning not only Sports Emmys, but also Cannes Lions
* The Army-Navy tease with editor Anthony Cortese that same year was also special
* Why the Army-Navy teases are so important
* How Radovich grew up with professional soccer
* The reason behind the Champions League approach toward hardcore fans
* Telling Peter Schmeichel & Jamie Carragher that if you would do a segment in Europe than do it here
* How he sat down with Sean McManus and David Berson about the approach
* How Radovich’s “Inside The NFL” producing led to the Champions studio team
* Why host Kate Scott was Radovich’s first hire
* The behind-the-scenes story of how CBS/Paramount ended up with the team of Scott, Carragher, Thierry Henry and Michah Richards
* Radovich produced a four-part history of “Inside The NBA” that really allowed him to get inside the mind of its producer Tim Kiely
* How producers Ben Strauber and Jeff Gerttula worked to put together the chemistry on the studio show, but it is like trying to predict a blind date
* Radovich is always flying internationally for work
* How Radovich broke into the business with no connections as his parents were immigrants from Croatia, but he had friend named Zak Ivkovic
* Lisa Lax and NBC gave him his intern first break
* How showing up on days he wasn’t assigned sprung his break into a job
* Radovich has never had a resume
* Radovich’s parents emigrated from Croatia and his love for the country
* Croatia is half the population of New Jersey, which makes the Croatia’s World Cup success even more amazing
* Who is the best Croatian athlete in history … and how Radovich is friends with this person
Some Related Podcasts:Fred Gaudelli …Drew Esocoff …Pete Macheska …Ian Eagle … Jim Nantz
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Who is the greatest MLB play-by-player of all-time? Who is in the Top 10 from TV and radio?
Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel rank their all-time Major League Play-by-Players. Each host used their own criteria to come up with their Top 10.
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At No. 10, Meterparel had a shocker, at least to Marchand, while Marchand wrestled with his No. 1 choice until the last moment. Marchand also had one surprise legend that didn’t make his Top 10.
Play-by-players moved up and down the big boards and many great ones were left on the bubble.
The envelope please on the 38-minute all-time sports media podcast.
Some of the names considered: Sean McDonough, Bob Murphy, Joe Davis, Bob Costas, Skip Caray, Marty Brennaman, Jack Buck, Joe Buck, Bob Uecker, Gary Cohen, Al Michaels, Boog Sciambi, Jon Miller, Keith Jackson, Howie Rose, Dan Shulman; Harry Kalas, Ted Robinson, Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, Jason Benetti, Michael Kay, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Brian Anderson & Duane Kuiper.
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* On Deck: CBS’ Pete Radovich
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Netflix’s VP of Sports Gabe Spitzer lays out the vision for Netflix in sports from the NFL to MLB to the Women’s World Cup to WWE and what is next.
The 43-minute sports media podcast was shot in front of a live studio audience as part of the “Off The Record with Andrew Marchand presented by WSC Sports” series.
THE RUNDOWN …
* Why Netflix’s vision for sports is not just a sports strategy
* The evolution of Netflix’s strategy and what sports provides for the business
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* Why Netflix added more NFL and wanted to own Christmas
* How the NFL game deal sprung out of social media
* The race to the first game and setting a then streaming record
* Why boxing has done so well on Netflix
* The surprise of Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul
* Assessing how the World Baseball Classic did in Japan
* Netflix has MLB’s Opening Night, Home Run Derby and Field of Dreams, why does that work
* Marchand criticized Netflix’s Opening Night presentation in a column for The Athletic, Spitzer gave his response
* The difficulty of networks, like Fox and ESPN, not allowing their exclusive on-air personalities to appear on Netflix anymore
* Why Netflix wants to be the most talent friendly network
* How the Elle Duncan deal works
* How does Spitzer looking at adding more on-air personalities
* The Women’s World Cup next year is the most ambitious project yet
* What is the thinking behind acquiring the Women’s World Cup
* What is Gabe Spitzer’s backstory
* How he started at ESPN in 2005 out of Wesleyan
* Learning how to make documentaries at HBO
* How he moved from Fox Sports to Netflix
* What is the culture of Netflix
* Why failing is important at Netflix
* How the first big live deal with WWE came together
* Grading the WWE deal
* What is the best documentary that Spitzer has been a part of
* What’s it like working on “Harry and Meghan”
* How do you get subjects to buy in on documentaries
* Beckham’s reaction around the world to his doc
* The one big documentary still out there is …
* How interested is Netflix in the Men’s World Cup
* How does Spitzer look at AI
* Where does Spitzer see Netflix in sports in five years or 10 years
* What’s the hardest part of Spitzer’s job
* How many pitches does Spitzer receive
* Who have been the most important mentors for Spitzer
* Does Spitzer wish he had become a sports writer
Related Podcasts: Mark Shapiro, Hans Schroeder, Christian Oestlien, Jay Marine, Rick Cordella & Don Garber
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Why Amazon Prime Video has officially reached the ESPN, Fox, NBC, CBS & TNT level. The surprising results of the Marchand PrimeTime Schedule Ratings™. The Sunday setback. How Netflix got what it wanted from the NFL. The next great NBA TV star. Shams vs. Amazon.
Why Gary Bettman was so right on John Tortorella. What to make of the Derek Jeter in the booth. And the ever popular “Cakes are Baking” game.
It is a 36-minute edition of Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media.
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RUNDOWN ….
* HEADLINES: Why Amazon Prime Video has arrived in sports
* How the NFL is letting Netflix have the strategy it wants
* The schedule did not favor Sunday afternoons
* Gary Bettman puts John Tortorella & Las Vegas in the media penalty box
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* WHAT’s UP/WHAT’s DOWN: NFL Schedule Release, NBC MLB Booth, Chargers Social Media, Udonis Haslem
* THE QUESTIONS
* Evaluating Amazon Prime Video’s first year with NBA games
* The Steve Nash issue
* Shams vs. Amazon on the MVP story
* The NBA has found their next TV superstar … MJ, LeBron and now
* NBC’s Michael Jordan is compared to the Great Gatsby by Meterparel
* The surprising result of the official Marchand PrimeTime Schedule Ratings™
* The impact of CBS, Fox, Red Zone and Sunday Ticket
* NFL must be careful not to lose scarcity
* The lessons of the Premier League
* The big reason Bettman had to put the hammer down on Tortorella
* The hypocrisy of Tortorella and others
* Assessing the Ronda Rousey event for Netflix
* What to make of the Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez and Kevin Burkhardt Fox Red Sox-Yankees booth for June 6
* The new viral term of “Grand Sham” for when a teams is on four different platforms in four days
* How about a “Triple Clown” when it is three
* Papa Clicker on WFAN’s Steve Somers’ book
* How Papa Clicker listened to Somers under the covers
* Cakes are Baking Game: Jim Nantz … Reggie Jackson … Ron Mercer
* “Off the Record” with Matt Hong on June 9th
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* On Deck: Gabe Spitzer is The Main Event
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In the 42-minute podcast, Pete Rozelle Hall of Fame Award winner Howard Katz is the guest as he tells behind-the-scenes stories from his 50-plus years in the business. There are tales about Roone Arledge to Howard Cosell to Al Michaels to ABC to ESPN to the NFL and its schedule and much more.
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The Topics …
* How Katz received his first break into sports for ABC’s Munich Olympics
* Roone Arledge was brilliant and unpredictable
* The lessons from Roone
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* The Monday Night Football traveling circus with Don Ohlmeyer, Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith
* Ohlmeyer’s influence on Katz’ career
* How a family decision changed Katz’ career
* Working for Al Michaels’ father and the relationship that grew from it
* Going to ESPN and making up the rules
* His Steve Bornstein connection began in Bristol
* Launching ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Radio …
* Why he chose to go to ABC Sports as president
* How he ended up at the NFL
* What was Katz’ best Cosell story
* The sad and touching story when Katz had to tell Cosell his show was being canceled
* Why Cosell didn’t want anything to do with broadcasting at the end of his life
* Amazing Cosell being Cosell story
* Witnessing Michaels’ career from beginning to now
* Cleaning house at Monday Night Football
* Ohlmeyer felt like he was casting a sitcom and landed on Dennis Miller as an analyst
* Ohlmeyer was one and done as the MNF producer
* His fondness for Fred Gaudelli
* How Katz and Sandy Montag brought Madden to ABC from Fox
* Miller tried to stay on with Madden
* ABC vs. ESPN: Cultural war
* Bodenheimer receiving the the top ESPN job over Katz
* One of the the shows that Katz was most proud of as it was full circle
* The impact of Mark McCormack’s untimely death
* How did Katz get control of the NFL schedule
* Launching NFL Network
* Katz’ advantage on scheduling came from his TV background
* The big items Katz tried to add to the schedule
* Hurricane Katrina and trying to figure out the Saints’ games
* Being popular, not being popular and the Pope
* How did he deal with the personal requests from owners, etc.
* What does Katz think of the ESPN and NFL Network, etc. equity deal
* Why retirement is overrated …
* His wife has a great line …
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In the 34-minute podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel go through the biggest topics in sports media, including Netflix and YouTube’s apparent NFL diversion, Peter Schrager on the rise, Steve Kerr’s TV decision, Draymond Green’s issue, grading the Yankees’ booth, NCAA Men’s Tournament expansion and more.
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THE TOPICS …
* Big week for Netflix and Gabe Spitzer
* The significance of YouTube potentially doing fewer NFL games
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* Assessing President Trump’s “$1,000 per game” comments on the NFL and TV
* Rupert Murdoch behind the scenes
* Where is the leverage for the NFL in opt-out talks
* Peter Schrager & SportsCenter take the lead as ESPN gets serious about its post-Around The Horn plans
* The potential opportunity for Schrager to join the top pantheon at ESPN
* Laura Rutledge should already be in that company
* Steve Kerr returns at Golden State and Tim Legler and top analysts are likely popping Champagne
* The Marc Stein and Tim Kawakami Kerr reports followed by Burke Magnus’ reaction
* Ourand vs. Meterparel comps … Mays & Mantle …
* Where Draymond Green may be picking up some bad TV habits
* Why no commericals in NHL OT
* Scott Hansen & Mel Kiper Jr.’s special skill is needed
* New Feature: Everybody Loves Local
* On the clock: Grading Yankees’ YES broadcast featuring Michael Kay, David Cone, Joe Girardi, Paul O’Neill and produced by Troy Benjamin
* The Clicker ratings are in …
* The Netflix’s “Full Swing” documentary story-telling
* The Men’s NCAA Tournament moves to 76 teams and the TV advertising angle
* Ted Turner’s legacy, “America’s Team,” TNT and the NBA and Fred Hickman/Nick Charles legacy
* Cakes are Baking is a sensation all over college campuses: Chris Berman, Brad Marchand & Bono
* Off The Record with Netflix VP Gabe Spitzer on May 12th
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* On Deck: Howard Katz is The Main Event
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