David Samson joins Meadowlark Media, will host two shows for the company
The former president of the Marlins is the latest sports media personality to join Meadowlark.
The former president of the Marlins is the latest sports media personality to join Meadowlark.
“Rights go up. They look terrible in the beginning, by the end they look great."
Beyond his new work for Meadowlark, Torre is expected to keep contributing to ESPN programs, including Around The Horn and Pardon The Interruption.
"Just remember the antitrust exemption that the NFL is afforded."
"The single best way I can think of for the NFL to increase their annual revenue take for their clubs, is to make the Super Bowl a Pay-Per-View event."
"In that world, you can’t even admit you did coke. It’s a stupid world. It’s a stupid world where you have to pretend to be a fake person."
"So you want to talk about timing."
John Skipper and Dan Le Batard have a big new Meadowlark Media content initiative on the way with "Sports Explains the World." It doesn't have a streaming destination yet, though.
"For $375 million, you could have bought some live event rights, which would actually make a significant difference."
"Jim Delany had the smart idea to launch a network with FOX and that also was good business, even though it had a rough start.”
"There is just not a lot of sports content in any genre on Netflix, Hulu, Paramount +, HBO Now or Discovery Plus." That is not correct.
How much would you pay to watch the Super Bowl?
"I would not assume that this is just happening, that one day the Texas and Oklahoma guys woke up, I would guess that it’s a logical sequence of events that ESPN now has all of the SEC, now they bring Texas and Oklahoma in."