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bob iger
John Ourand February 20, 2024
Spulu wasn’t just a way for frenemies Disney, Fox, and WBD to join forces to solve a consumer problem. It was also a warning shot at Paramount and Comcast.
adam silver
John Ourand February 15, 2024
All the dish and dealflow talk emanating from the heartland as All-Star weekend sets in: the NBA rights permutations, the Diamond deal, and much more.
roger goodell
John Ourand February 13, 2024
I learned this weekend in Vegas that the league is having its lawyers examine its contracts with ESPN and Fox to see if it has an out.
Sean McManus
John Ourand February 13, 2024
A quick Super Bowl Sunday touch-base with the outgoing leader of CBS Sports, Sean McManus, and his handpicked successor, David Berson.


Lachlan Murdoch, David Zaslav, Bob Iger
John Ourand February 8, 2024
Here in Vegas, on the protracted eve of the Super Bowl, everyone is talking about the Disney-Fox-WBD deal and what it means. Is this a cable killer? An experiment? And who is really in charge? The only consensus is that everyone is pissed that they weren’t looped in sooner.
In many ways, my arrival at Puck represents the full circle of my career.
John Ourand February 1, 2024
In many ways, my arrival at Puck represents the full circle of my career covering sports and media. When I was first getting started in this business, I wrote a newsletter that covered the burgeoning cable TV industry. Decades later, the formula still reigns, despite the convulsions of the industry.
As part of the deal, the group will start off owning about 40 percent of the club.
John Ourand January 30, 2024
The Angelos family is selling the team to two P.E. billionaires, David Rubenstein and Mike Arougheti, for $1.725 billion.
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