Awful Announcing
According to CNBC's Alex Sherman, the two sides are negotiating a price increase with a bid-ask spread midpoint around 50 to 60 percent over CBS's current $2.1 billion annual fee.
ESPN's Chris Berman believes the NFL would already have an 18-game regular season if it weren't for Damar Hamlin's scary episode in 2023.
"They just wanted you to be definitive, argumentative, and they didn't care whether you were right or wrong, and I didn't feel very good about that."
"The Olympics is about storytelling…and I think that is our first nature on Sunday nights."
"It's a rivalry, so we are just having some fun."
"Maybe the NFL works with Netflix and gives them a package of 15 games that they can figure out how to eventize."
The first shakeup to ESPN's afternoon lineup in years is coming.
It makes some sense from a branding standpoint, but it's not even as cool as "Flagship."
“In an era where everything is time shifted or time delayed, sports is the one sort of appointment type viewing."
According to CNBC's Alex Sherman, Netflix could reportedly consider MLB's Wild Card games as part of its event-driven content strategy.
"He's opened the floodgates to a potential level of freedom we never knew existed at the Worldwide Leader until he arrived."
"You couldn’t pay me enough money to go back to the old model."
"If you tell me that I could catapult to the White House, and I could be in a position to affect millions upon millions of lives, not just in America, but the world over, yeah, that's something that I would entertain."
"We’re going to make it super simple where you can have linear content combined with streaming content."
"We have the ability to go lower, and we’re going to test different price points."
"We looked at everything, you know, I think it's only responsible to look at everything."
Apollo has reportedly been in talks with betting companies, including Australia's PointsBet.
