Rate the 2020 NFL announcers
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PFL CEO Peter Murray talks how they’re “busier than ever” with studio projects and preparing new tech for 2021 return
"We doubled down on content and created our own muscle to go direct to fans."
Top Rank COO Brad Jacobs on putting Lomachenko-Lopez on ESPN: “It’s a showdown that’s in the interests of everyone.”
"It’s one of those fights that fight fans, sports fans, certainly have been anticipating for a long period of time, and were anticipating they’d have to shill out money from their pockets to watch [on pay-per-view], and that’s not the case. They’ll be able to see it live on ESPN, and it will be sensational."
YouTube’s Tim Katz and MLBN’s Scott Braun talk MLB games on YouTube: “We’ve seen great response.”
"We think it's just more compelling to have more of a two-way conversation with fans versus the one-way conversation that people are accustomed to on linear TV. Our platform lends itself nicely to having that."
NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson on broadcasting amidst COVID-19: “Everything about my experience on Sunday will be changing.”
"We're a team, and we meet, we interface with each other. The way I envision Sunday going down with all the new protocols, I'm going to see, physically see, two, maybe three live human beings. "
Yahoo’s Geoff Reiss talks new WatchTogether, PlayAR NFL features: “The timing was ideal to come out and take a pretty big leap forward.”
"There's an appetite for knowledge across sports, whether it be to understand how salary caps work or what goes into draft picks. So giving fans the power to reconstruct plays, and being able to do that across a NFL Sunday, is kind of cool."
MACtion is a college football phenomenon that we’ll miss the hell out of this fall
ESPN producer Tim Corrigan talks back-to-back Game 7s, production in the bubble: “We’re all living and breathing NBA.”
"Whether it's regular-season games or playoff games or conference finals or the Finals, there's just nothing better than getting into these Game 7 positions because there's so much at stake."
Mickey Duzyj discusses the Sports Emmy nominations for his Netflix series “Losers,” as well as his hopes for the show’s future
Losers is up for a couple of Sports Emmys, but facing stiff competition. Creator, director and executive producer Mickey Duzyj told AA a win would be quite the turn for his interview subjects, though: "After all these years slandered as 'losers,' it’d definitely be poetic justice if they pulled off the upset."
Aubrey Levy talks theScore’s esports success during the North American sports pause and their new “Sports Are Back” betting campaign
"There was a period where there wasn't a lot of sports on, and that brought and amplified the spotlight to a bunch of other types of media and content."
Baseball during the pandemic: MLB announcers describe calling games in the unique 2020 season
Matt Brown discusses merging his Extra Points NCAA newsletter with The Intercollegiate
"We're both vocal, we both care about off-the-field issues that shape college athletics, we both care about academic research. It seemed like we could do more together than apart."
PFL chairman Donn Davis talks postponing their season to 2021, pivoting to fresh studio content, and paying fighters to train
The PFL is taking quite a different approach from many leagues to resuming play, postponing their season until 2021 but launching new studio content in the meantime.
