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In the 36-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel analyze what CBS can do about Jim Nantz and Tony Romo going forward and go inside how Tom Brady’s improved.
It is “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media.”
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The Rundown
* Will CBS be confident in Nantz & Romo for its next Super Bowl in two years
* A nice job buy FS1’s Nick Wright
* Learning something from ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown
* Why does Nantz do the AFC Championship post-game ceremony and not Tracy Wolfson, Nate Burleson or James Brown
* Stephen A. Smith’s big mistake on the Patriots
* What did Brady do well during the NFC Championship game
* Why Brady is lucky to have Kevin Burkhardt as his partner
* Inside Marchand’s talk with Brady for his Athletic story
* How Brady is a good Fox teammate behind-the-scenes
* The Raider conflict dissected
* Nantz and Romo giving each credit for obvious foreshadowing
* The Nantz-Romo uncle-nephew dynamic
* CBS probably won’t make any changes, but Marchand offers up one somewhat plausible idea to improve their NFL setup
* Ian Eagle & J.J. Watt are better than Nantz and Romo
* The Dick Stockton “solid, but not spectacular” story
* Booger McFarland is good on NFL PrimeTime with Chris Berman
* Where does Berman rank in NFL highlights delivery
* NFL-ESPN deal trending toward closing in April
* What do we make of Bob Costas succeeding Kevin Connors as the host of Sunday Night Baseball
* NBC is trying to make Sunday Night Baseball feel bigger
* Who is next to comeback …
* At Ithaca College being taught the importance of the letter “W”
* What to make of Netflix’s Alex Honnold building climbing and Elle Duncan’s debut
* Interesting to see where Paramount+’s UFC and Zuffa Boxing go after debuts…
* Tribute to ABC/ESPN’s Geoffrey Mason
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In the 56-minute sports media podcast, Fox Sports’ NFL insider Jay Glazer goes deep about how he made $9K per year to being an NFL insider on Fox and all the friends he has made along the way.
Glazer is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand”
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The Rundown …
* Jay Glazer started out his career doing stand-up comedy, interning at WFAN, working on “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous with Robin Leach,” bartending, boxing and bouncing as he was “broker than broke”
* Eric Spitz, Steve Cohen and Len Weiner gave him a break at FAN
* How good was Glazer at stand-up
* Glazer was kicked out of the first college he attended …
* How Glazer decided with no experience to go into the Giants locker room and grind, working “100 hours” a week
* Glazer was driven by never wanting go home again
* When he got kicked out of college the first time, he signed to box with friends and ….
* How Glazer infiltrated the Giants locker room by caring about others
* How he warned Tyrone Wheatley not to pick a fight with the fans
* Glazer lived in terrible conditions as he tried to make it in the business
* Glazer telling Michael Strahan to hustle more and Strahan going right back at Glazer
* Funny story of how Steve Serby convinced New York Post sports editor Greg Gallo to hire Glazer for $9K per year
* Strahan and Glazer appearing at synagogues
* Serby calling Glazer at 1 a.m., while Glazer was playing “which bill should I pay” roulette
* Glazer cutting himself as a bouncer at Studio 54
* How Serby called Gallo to get Glazer a college basketball job
* How Glazer got his big break by trying out for the New York Post with a Wheatley story
* How Gallo offered him $250 per story
* If Glazer didn’t have scoops, he wasn’t paid by The Post
* How agent Maury Gostfrand led to his CBS job
* The CBS NFL insider job came down to Glazer and a Denver Post writer named Adam Schefter
* He got the job for $50K and then it went from there
* How the Strahan-Glazer relationship started over being the only two “morons” laughing over an incident
* Glazer did not have enough money to take public transportation back from the Giants facility so Strahan and some other notables would drive him
* Glazer never asked Strahan for a dime
* The Subway commercials with Strahan, Michael Phelps and Glazer, among others … It included a Super Bowl ad
* The original breaking news battles with Chris Mortensen and company
* How Peter Schrager took Glazer’s advice to heart
* Glazer’s respect for Schefter
* Fighting with ESPN for stealing his stories
* His favorite scoop of all-time was ….
* The scoop got him accepted by Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson after that one
* He had the Matt Ryan to Atlanta story for three weeks
* Glazer’s relationships with Sylvester Stallone, The Rock, Guy Fieri and others
* Glazer has been very active in mental health
* Glazer tells a chilling story about saving someone’s life
* Lovie Smith and loyalty
* How much did Marchand make when he started at the New York Post
* How all the hours of overtime were not always counted
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* Frank Isola’s trip from New York sports media institution to the national spotlight
* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you
* On-deck by Tuesday: Marchand & Meterparel: ELSM
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In the 41-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel explain the Mike Tomlin to TV scenarios, review the divisional round booths, including Jim Nantz & Tony Romo, judging them on Super Bowl competency.
Plus, Pat McAfee and college football, Meterparel’s “hook and lateral” crusade and more about the Chris Oliviero interview and sports radio.
It’s “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media”
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Full Rundown …
* The favorites for Mike Tomlin are Fox and NBC, but they are not alone
* The Fox/Tomlin rumor is not true ….yet
* Kirk Cousins showed some potential on CBS
* Cris Collinsworth shined with his excitement on NBC
* Why the Manningcast ratings were down
* Tony Romo calls Josh Allen “Mahomes” … huh
* The Fox-Tomlin rumors … stop texting
* How long does Tomlin want do be in a studio
* Fox should’ve been quicker to Bo Nix story
* Marchand’s on-the-road lightning made him look like …
* The Travis Kelce TV free agency decision
* Nantz and Romo were disjointed.
* CBS Sports executives know what they are doing so …
* Would they have confidence in Nantz/Romo if they had the Super Bowl
* When viewers are confused, it is often on the booth
* Nantz is legend on golf, but he is a good NFL play-by-player, not great
* Brady and Burkhardt are so much more confident compared to last year
* Burkhardt is an unselfish broadcaster
* Brady explaining “cage rush” is good TV
* NBC should go into the Super Bowl confident in Mike Tirico and Collinsworth
* At end of Sunday night’s game, there was no clear shot of Sean McVay-Ben Johnson handshake
* How will the NFL look at the big streamers in next deals in comparison to old ESPN premiums
* The Fox wild card Sunday afternoon number compared to Amazon’s Prime Video’s Saturday ratings …
* Meterparel vs. the world on the term “Hook and Ladder”
* X went crazy ….
* Marchand kind of understood the “hook and ladder” side
* Nick was right on his advice to his dad on X
* ESPN’s president of content Burke Magnus and ESPN top reseracher, Sr. VP Flora Kelly, had issues with The Athletic college football reader survey that was very positive about ESPN
* Pat McAfee is undoubtably popular, which ESPN’s internal metrics show
* The reader survery had Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as best college team, which can be questioned
* The reaction to the Oliviero WFAN interview and a “lazy take”
* There is a little expertise on the FAN, but there could be more
* Why Mike Francesa was good in his heyday
* Meterparel likes the “Boomer & Gio” show
* Cakes are baking ….
* On Deck: Jay Glazer is The Main Event
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In the 44-minute sports media podcast, arguably the most powerful executive in sports radio, Chris Oliviero, is the guest as he explains the future of sports radio, the intricate details inside the decision to bring back Craig Carton to WFAN and Boomer Esiason’s future.
Oliveiro — the chief business officer of Audacy and the president of Audacy New York — oversees the FAN and is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
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The Rundown …
* Oliviero says the state of sports radio is healthy and evolving
* How Audacy is a sneaky, sleeping giant
* What is the breakdown of Audacy’s business between radio and digital
* What does Oliviero look for when he hires
* How a talk show host job is now nearly 24 hours per day
* Why the 20/20 updates changed and how FAN reinvested those dollars
* Longtime employee change-over, including Dov Kramer
* How FAN is strategizing on overnights
* Did FAN and sports radio miss the Barstool bus
* Marchand and Oliviero disagree on the name of Craig Carton’s new show with sidekick/co-host Chris McMonigle
* Why did Oliviero bring Craig Carton back …
* How Carton ended up back in afternoons with McMonigle
* How Oliviero handled it behind-the-scenes with Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata, who were let go from their mid-day time slot
* How Tierney and Licata understood and disagreed with the move
* The exact conversation Oliviero had with Tierney and Licata
* McMonigle’s pros & why he got the job over other candidates
* Why a new partner is good for Carton
* The element of casting in sports radio
* Marchand & Oliviero go at it about how much sports Carton has in his sports radio
* Why FAN has to do evolve to be different from when Mike & the Mad Dog were on
* How FAN still recognizes its history
* The benefits for Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber on the move to mid-days
* How Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti don’t get the respect that maybe they should
* Boomer & Gio don’t get in trouble so they receive less publicity
* Oliviero sells the current starting lineup and up-and-comers he likes
* What is the competition for WFAN
* Is WFAN vs. ESPN New York over
* How does the conversation go with Boomer Esiason about how long he wants to go before he retires
* Oliviero says Esiason is a great businessman
* What’s the best advice Oliviero gives college students who want to get into the business
* Who is the best radio host of all-time
* What it was like to be an intern with Howard Stern
* Why Sid Rosenberg is really good
* Chris (Mad Dog) Russo’s and Mike Francesa’s appeal
* Oliviero turns the table and asks Marchand if he could own any local platform, what would it be
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* Colin Cowherd’s journey from obscurity to stardom
* Michael Kay’s legendary New York career from The Boss to the booth
* Growing up on WFAN, Adam Schein & the creation of a complete sports talk show host
* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you
* On-deck by Tuesday: Marchand & Meterparel: ELSM
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In the 44-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel analyze what CBS can do about its Jim Nantz and Tony Romo booth problem. Plus, the duo breaks down all the broadcast crews.
It’s “Everybody Loves Sports Media with Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel”
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The Rundown …
* Grading the NFL teams
* What can CBS do about the Jim Nantz & Tony Romo problem
* The NFL is soaring once again
* The Tom Brady dynamic on Colin Cowherd works
* The Jacksonville reporter had a nice sentiment, but the wrong setting
* Greg Olsen really knows what to say on game broadcasts
* The elephant in the room with Al Michaels coming back for another year with Prime Video
* Why Michaels should announce his retirement before his final season
* The Nantz aspect in the Tony Romo problems
* Ian Eagle made J.J. Watt better
* Why Brady and Kevin Burkhardt are really good now
* The strong producing of Brady …
* Mike Tirico & Cris Collinsworth have good momentum to their broadcast
* Why the Jacksonville reporter situation lacked a lot of context
* Chris Fowler/Kirk Hebrstreit vs. Sean McDonough/Greg McElroy: Who’s better?
* Joe Buck appears to do that Vin Scully thing of using 10 percent of his board
* The MLB TV moves with David Cone leaving ESPN, while NBC is thinking big on Sunday Night Baseball
* Ryan Ruocco is someone who could do national MLB
* ESPN’s tennis moves
* The RSN mess may be at a tipping point
* Papa Clicker Review: The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis’s Battle for Freedom During World War II … 4.5 Clickers
* Marchand & Meterparel’s Sugar Ray Robinson stories
* Golden Globes review: Best host ever?
* On Deck: Chris Oliviero is The Main Event
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In the 39-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand and John Ourand talk about why the NFL should be greedy in their next TV deals, but maybe not too greedy.
The NFL should consider the long-term viability of the networks as it balances the streaming era.
It is The Monthly, Marchand & Ourand, on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
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The Rundown …
* How greedy should the NFL get in its potential opt-out media deals—or is there a real risk of breaking its traditional partners?
* Why Marchand wouldn’t change too much on how the NFL sells its TV packages
* The scars of losing the NFL never leave
* Ourand makes up a term talking about the NFL creating extra bidders
* Marchand & Ourand disagree about how a new elite streaming package would work
* Ourand has a “Quarterback package” idea that Marchand can’t comprehend
* Ourand thinks it is overrated with MLB, etc., that fans don’t find games
* Could the NFL create a very skinny, elite package for streamers
* Ourand brings up the NFL playing on Saturdays for some reason
* Reaction to Jon Meterparel saying the Patriots-Chargers is the best game of the weekend
* Why did Amazon Prime Video receive the top wild card weekend game between the Packers and Bears
* Inside how the NFL balances FOX, NBC, CBS, ESPN and Prime Video with recent scheduling
* The misunderstanding about Peacock’s business
* What Peacock needs to do next
* Explaining the RSN situation with DAZN and Main Street Sports
* What is next in the local sports business with MLB, NBA and NHL
* YouTube TV growing with its interface
* An argument could be made for MLB to put all its games on YouTube in front of a paywall
* With Christian Oestlien & Justin Connolly, YouTube is serious on sports
* How Marchand and Ourand is now twice monthly
* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you
* On Deck Tuesday: Marchand & Meterparel
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In the 36-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel analyze the dominance of the NFL on the media landscape.
Who made the right calls and who didn’t from the booths to the boardrooms. And what is next …
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The Rundown …
* NFL’s TV dominance in the top 100 shows of 2025 and a quiz
* How do you create a new top NFL package for streamers
* A package with the best games for the streamers? Sounds like SNF
* Mike Tirico’s big moment
* Sean McDonough is college football’s gold standard.
* Mark Jones had a rough one
* The issues with ESPN’s No. 2 NFL team of Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick Jr.
* Where does Troy Aikman advising the Dolphins lead
* Assessing Matt Ryan’s CBS exit
* Where Travis Kelce could fit in TV
* Drew Brees update
* The broadcast crews that click and some that don’t
* What events made the Top 100 shows outside of football
* Who did best on the wild card weekend TV schedule
* J.J. Watt was breakout star of the regular season
* The issue with CBS and Fox’s final Sunday schedules
* Props to Daryl Johnston
* Grading Tom McCarthy’s Myles Garrett sack record call
* Ross Tucker, on the rise
* Will there be an NFL coach in the booth ever again
* Will Meterparel be invited to the Kelce-Swift wedding
* Gary Danielson’s goodbye
* What were the four non-sports in the Top 100
* Richard Deitsch leaves The Athletic
* On Deck: Marchand & Ourand, The Monthly
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The New York Post lead sports columnist Mike Vaccaro may be one of the last of the legendary general sports newspaper columnists. From Jimmy Cannon to Dick Young to Mike Lupica, New York has been a sports newspaper town forever, led by the top columnists. Vaccaro has continued that tradition.
He’s also a best-selling author with his latest, The Bosses of the Bronx: The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner out this spring.
Vaccaro is the guest on the 52-minute “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
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The Rundown …
* How in the 1970s, Vaccaro first dreamed of being a sports columnist for the New York Post when his dad brought him to Shea Stadium
* From Ian O’Connor to Mark Kriegel to Wally Matthews, Vaccaro had big competition
* Former New York Post sports editor Greg Gallo told Vaccaro that “sometimes I have to hire a search party to get the point out of your column”
* What type of athlete was Vaccaro growing up
* How did he get Gallo to hire him at The Post
* Jerry Izenberg, Dave Anderson and Steve Serby were all great mentors
* How a college-aged Vaccaro wrote Lupica a letter and Lupica wrote back …
* Later, the relationship changed
* Vacarro said he wasn’t perfect either in the relationship when it was Post vs. News
* His relationship with Harvey Araton, Anderson and George Vecsey were better
* The great advice he received from Anderson and O’Connor
* The St. Bonaventure connection from Adrian Wojnarowski, Chris LaPlaca, Tim Bontemps and more
* Assessing Woj as the St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball GM
* What Vaccaro’s first jobs were like
* How Vaccaro was fired in Fayetteville
* His fight with Frank Broyles over Title IX that led to issues
* He would annually call the guy who fired him with a profane message
* How a Peter Hamill line stuck with him over the firing
* Editor Bill Burr giving him a second chance
* Marchand tells how he was almost fired from his first job in Texas
* How Vaccaro gives credit to his father for how to act
* In the Kansas City Star, Vaccaro had to compete with Joe Posnanski, Jason Whitlock and more in what was an All-Star staff
* How he is happy for others, like Steve Politi, when they do award-winning work
* His rivalry with Frank Isola …
* How Isola should’ve been a 20-year newspaper sports columnist
* Why Lou Lamoriello has been the best person to cover
* A tremendous Lamoriello/Larry Brooks story
* How Lamoriello gave Rick Pitino his break
* What Vaccaro has learned in ripping Steve Phillips and Jeff Wilpon
* Calling Wilpon, “Paris” as in Hilton
* Yelling with Steve Phillips about making his wife cry … and a good line
* Isiah Thomas appearing in a clown suit on the back page
* His editor at Harper/Collins, Sean Desmond, hatched the idea for the Steinbrenner book
* The new book is written in Vaccaro’s columnist’s voice
* Steinbrenner calling Vaccaro in the middle of the night
* Discussing the Yankee payroll today compared to yesteryear
* Vaccaro goes through the process dealing with his leg amputation
* How it has impacted his job
* Vaccaro fears the Papa Clicker review
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* Sponsor: WSC Sports… Tell them Marchand sent you
* On Deck Tuesday: Marchand & Meterparel
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In the 28-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel look at what’s ahead in 2026, which begins with Mike Tirico. Tirico will host the Winter Olympics, call his first Super Bowl and be the lead voice on NBA on NBC’s playoff coverage.
We ring in 2026 on “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media.”
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The Rundown …
* Why the Mike Tirico signing by NBC in 2016 was one of the best sports media ones over the last decade
* Rick Cordella and NBC have made the network and Peacock a year-round destination
* The Great Rebundling and Peacock
* People will pay a little more for convenience
* YouTube TV’s graph is going up
* People love a good interface
* What are YouTube’s goals
* The NFL will threaten or will opt out of its 11-year, $110 billion deals
* Amazon Prime Video is ahead in the race for a potential Super Bowl on a digital platform, but …
* The MLBPA will be very interested in what is happening with TV rights with labor strife potentially on the horizon
* Why Marchand isn’t sure the World Cup will have as huge an impact on the United States
* Why Marchand likes the NBA television and streaming deals
* ESPN is going to be hyping its 2026-2027 Super Bowl
* Who is on Marchand & Meterparel’s unofficial ESPN Mt. Rushmore
* Meterparel’s New Year’s Resolutions for broadcasters
* Bloopers!
* On Deck: Mike Vaccaro is The Main Event
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In the 47-minute sports media podcast, NBC Sports Executive Vice President of Communications, Greg Hughes, provides insight and great stories into his nearly four decades in the business from TNT Sports to NBC.
Hughes tells tales from the PR wars inside Rudy Martzke’s old USA Today column, his relationships with stars and how to deal with social media. Plus, much more on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
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The Rundown …
* Hughes is tight with Charles Barkley and tells the story of how TNT Sports lured Barkley to Atlanta
* Barkley is a very generous guy in a lot of different ways
* As the EVP communications for NBC Sports, what is Hughes trying to accomplish
* What do folks do right at networks
* How you build relationships with the people who cover the media
* What PR people have to be able to say to reporters
* Hughes’ policy of never lying
* The importance of Versant CEO Mark Lazarus on Hughes’ career
* Why Lazarus had Hughes move his office next to Lazarus’
* The media critics from Rudy Martzke to Richard Sandomir to …
* How TNT Sports first had to punch up at the networks
* Fighting with his friends and foes from Vince Wladika, Lou D’Ermilio, Chris LaPlaca, Ed Markey and Kevin Sullivan
* The famous Mike Soltys quote on Keith Olbermann
* Incredible Hughes’ USA Today line over a Fox Sports mistake
* Hughes’ relationship with Martzke bonded over Wisconsin
* Dealing with Warren Moon controversy as a player/analyst for TNT
* How Hughes transitioned from TNT Sports to NBC Sports
* “Being invited to leave” from TNT Sports, along with Lazarus
* He only went to NBC because of Lazarus
* How Hughes fostered relationships with Bob Costas and Al Michaels, etc. when he arrived at NBC
* How does Hughes handle when NBC Sports is being criticized
* How to handle highly critical social media
* Hughes has been at two perfect games
* Lazarus wanted to leave one, but Hughes wouldn’t
* Bud Selig blasting the head of Time-Warner
* How Hughes owns several restaurants and bars
* He only would go to NBC if he kept the bars
* Hughes says some nice things about his NBC colleagues
* The All-Star-Super Bowl-Olympic itinerary with Rick Cordella
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