Marchand & Ourand go inside the negotiations for the new deals Adam Schefter and Adrian Wojnarowski signed with ESPN, looking at everything from ESPN’s strategy to the next steps for the gambling companies that had been angling to sign them. Marchand & Ourand dissect the work of CBS and Turner’s top men’s college basketball booth during the Final Four and Championship game. And they analyze the sports strategy being employed by Amazon and Apple.
 
Other topics include: Fox’s move to have Joe Davis call World Series games; why sponsors are supporting the MLB season so much; the on-going negotiations between Sinclair and Charter; and what to expect during the Masters this week. Podcasts mentions this week include: ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro, Scott Van Pelt, Apple’s Jim Delorenzo, Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery, Ian Eagle and others.
 
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