Peter Kafka: ‘CBS and Fox’s primary reason to exist is to distribute football’
Last year, of the top 100 most-watched telecasts in the United States, 92 were football games and 84 were NFL games.
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Media analyst: Streamers would need to offer NFL ‘astronomical’ rights fee for league to move off broadcast
"An Apple or a Netflix would have to offer a astronomical number for them to make it worth their while to get into what surely would be a political fight."
Netflix reportedly has opt-in for future years of Christmas Day NFL games
The originally reported three-year deal may last even longer.
Bill Simmons looks back at his HBO show “Any Given Wednesday”: “Podcasts have replaced shows like that.”
"The 40 raw minutes were better than the 12 edited minutes. So stuff like that made me think, “What is the upside at this point of a TV interview show versus a podcast?"
Former ESPN president, current DAZN chairman John Skipper takes some shots at the traditional TV model in a pair of interviews
"Just as we will disrupt the way that we acquire the ability to watch sports through an app, we will disrupt the way that advertising works. We really will follow the Facebook/Google model — we will understand things about you that will allow us to target ads."
Time has been sold, but Sports Illustrated has yet to find a buyer, and now we have more insight as to why
It sounds like Meredith may be asking more for SI than its numbers justify to many buyers.
Disney EVP Kevin Mayer says ESPN Plus could “set ourselves up for a future where we may pivot and go over the top,”...
"If we do make this broader transition to a direct-to-consumer model, that is a fantastic local way into consumers' houses and into a relationship with consumers, through their local team."
Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finocchio calls Barstool Sports “fraternity content,” says they’re “never going to be as big as we are”
"They're not politically correct. They're definitely more, it feels to me like, white males who want to join a country club. They're never going to be as big as we are because we work very hard to be inclusive and we don't offend people. They purposely offend people and that's what they do, but a lot of people love that."
