The Sports Media Podcast
By Bob D
Categories: News, Sports News, Sports
The hottest headlines, network deals, ratings, trends and everything else you need to know inside sports media.
72 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Inside the Business of Sports Media
John Ourand kicks off The Sports Media Podcast with ESPN's Scott Van Pelt. Together, they explore the biggest stories, personalities, deals, and developments shaping the sports media industry, from broadcasting rights to multi-million-dollar talent contracts.An inside look at the business behind…
- Episode 72: Fox Sports head Eric Shanks is The Big Get
Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks joins the podcast on the eve of producing a Super Bowl to discuss some of the biggest sports media topics in the business with hosts Andrew Marchand and John Ourand. Shanks discusses his plans for the Super Bowl, from where he will sit to what the viewership will look…
- Episode 71: What’s going on with Nantz and Romo?
Andrew Marchand and John Ourand review the broadcast booths for CBS’s production of the AFC Championship game and Fox’s NFC Championship telecast. The two hosts also talk about what Diamond Sports Group’s pending bankruptcy means for professional sports teams and what YES Network’s expected…
- Episode 70: NFL announcer analysis and what LIV deal means
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports:The NFL dominated television over the weekend during the Divisional Playoffs. It also dominated the first part of this week’s podcast as Andrew Marchand and John Ourand analyze how the different broadcast booths…
- Episode 69: What's next for legends, Al Michaels and Tom Brady
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports:Pod hosts Andrew Marchand and John Ourand dissect all aspects of the NFL’s Wild Card weekend, from a sports media perspective. They look into whether social media complaints about Al Michaels’ and Tony Dungy’s…
- Episode 68: The NFL playoffs begin as the college football playoffs end
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports:How did ESPN end up with a Cowboys playoff game? That’s one of many NFL playoff-related topics discussed by Andrew Marchand and John Ourand this week. Other topics include how CBS and Fox handled the final regular…
- Episode 67: How did ESPN handle Damar Hamlin’s injury?
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports:Andrew Marchand and John Ourand discuss ESPN’s coverage of the injury suffered by the Buffalo Bills’s Damar Hamlin during “Monday Night Football” and what the network could have done differently. Other topics include…
- Episode 66: 2023 in sports media
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports:Andrew Marchand and John Ourand offer their sports media predictions for 2023. The hosts hit on everything from whether Tom Brady will actually be part of Fox’s top NFL announcer booth to the likelihood of DirecTV and…
- Episode 65: 2022 Sports Media Year in Review
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports: Andrew Marchand and John Ourand choose the ten biggest stories they covered over the past 12 months. The duo starts with the free agent frenzy among NFL announcers last off-season and carries on to the upheaval in…
- Episode 64: Influential Execs, Sunday Ticket talks and The Big Get JJ Redick
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports, Former basketball player and current ESPN star JJ Redick joins the podcast to discuss his media career. He talks about how and why he started his “Old Man and the Three” podcast and the growth of athlete-driven media…
- Episode 63: World Cup, MLS & Pac-12 Trends; plus Chris Ripley’s Fall
In this week’s Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC SportsThe latest developments in the Pac-12’s media rights negotiations and MLS’ push to get a traditional TV network to carry its games next season are the top two podcasts on this week’s pod. Hosts Andrew Marchand and John…
- Episode 62: Bonus Pod - Sports media & mojitos
Andrew Marchand and John Ourand co-hosted this podcast at SBJ’s Media Innovators conference in New York City. The live audience attending the late afternoon taping were treated to “MandO Mojitos.” The live podcast has the same “Who’s Up/Who’s Down” segment that is a regular part of the Marchand &…
- Episode 61: NFL dominates, World Cup review & Messi’s Apple impact
In this week's Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast sponsored by WSC Sports, Andrew Marchand and John Ourand review Fox Sports’ performance during the first week of the World Cup from Qatar. The two also look at whether the tournament’s move to November and December has affected TV viewership…
- Episode 60: Disney Shakeup's impact on ESPN and The Big Get Andrés Cantor
Andrew Marchand and John Ourand dissect the shocking news coming out of Burbank on Sunday night that Bob Iger replaced Bob Chapek as Disney CEO. The two talk about what the move means for ESPN, the NBA’s next rights deal, the direct-to-consumer business and sports betting. Other topics include the…
- Episode 59: The first flares in next NBA TV deals & Mina Kimes
The NBA’s media rights aren’t up for another three seasons, but that hasn’t stopped league Commissioner Adam Silver and Warner Bros. Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav from discussing them publicly. Andrew Marchand and John Ourand give their perspective on how the media landscape is shaping…
- Episode 58: Jeff Bezos’ Kyrie Problem and The Big Get Erin Andrews
This week’s pod opens with Andrew Marchand and John Ourand discussing the fallout from Kyrie Irving’s decision to tweet a link to an anti-semitic documentary and Amazon’s decision to keep the documentary on its site. The two also wrap up baseball’s year from a media perspective, from AppleTV+ to…
- Episode 57: Big 12/Pac-12 and the Future of College Sports Plus Peter Schrager
The Big 12’s blockbuster media deal with ESPN and Fox Sports gets top billing on this week’s pod as Andrew Marchand and John Ourand discuss the fallout from the story Ourand broke with Michael Smith over the weekend. The duo goes in-depth with a story Marchand broke earlier this week about…
- Episode 56: Jim Nantz says goodbye & Joe Davis says hello to big events
Just days before calling his first World Series game, Fox Sports’ Joe Davis joins the pod to talk about how his meteoric career took off. Davis, who replaced play-by-play legends Vin Scully on Dodgers games and Joe Buck on national games, takes listeners through how he approached the NLCS and what…
- Episode 55: TBS Analyst and Baseball Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez
Pedro Martinez joins the podcast as TBS prepares to carry baseball’s American League Championship Series. Martinez, who played for the Red Sox, Mets and Phillies during his career, discusses which team was in the toughest media market during his playing days and how he mentors young…
- Episode 54: Amazon Sports VP Marie Donoghue on what's next for the streamer
Andrew Marchand and John Ourand interview Amazon Sports VP of Global Sports Video, Marie Donoghue. Donoghue is the one who first hatched Amazon's plan to go after the rights for Thursday Night Football and she led how the streamer has approached its look in front and behind the cameras. In the…
- Episode 53: The pod is a year old and Jeff Passan is on
Andrew Marchand and John Ourand celebrate one year of the sports media podcast. They are joined by ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan, who details why he always wears a suit to the ballpark, navigating ESPN rivalries, the angst of being glued to his phone and his Elmo impersonation, among other topics…
- Episode 52: What Apple's & Amazon's big week means for future rights
Aaron Judge and Albert Pujols went for historic home runs exclusively on AppleTV+. The NFL put some of its most popular teams exclusive on Amazon. The NFL wants to sell its Sunday Ticket service exclusively to a streamer. Podcast hosts Andrew Marchand and John Ourand discuss what sports leagues’…
- Episode 51: Amazon & Apple: The future of sports is here
Sports media’s push to streaming dominates the first part of this week’s podcast, as Andrew Marchand and John Ourand take a deep dive into how Amazon fared during its first exclusive NFL game. Marchand and Ourand take a look at Amazon’s performance from the NBA’s perspective since that league’s…
- Episode 50: Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit
Days before they will call the first regular season NFL game on Amazon Prime, Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit joined the pod this week to discuss their plan for calling games on the streaming service and how they’ve approached their partnership. The two also discuss the free agent frenzy that hit…
- Episode 49: Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen
Fox Sports’ top NFL announcing team of Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen join the pod this week to discuss the upcoming season when they will call the Super Bowl for the first time. Andrew Marchand and John Ourand ask about the long off-season process to become Fox’s top NFL broadcasting team…
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