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Robert Fishman, Eric Shanks, and Michael Nathanson
John Ourand October 20, 2025
A wide-ranging conversation between Fox Sports C.E.O. Eric Shanks and MoffettNathanson analysts Michael Nathanson and Robert Fishman about the forthcoming NFL negotiations, reaching audiences outside of the bundle, the creep of private equity into college football, and much more.
Adam Silver
John Ourand October 16, 2025
A special live conversation with NBA commissioner Adam Silver about his new $76 billion rights deal and how A.I. will transform his business.
Cody Campbell
John Ourand October 13, 2025
The billionaire oilman, former jock, and Texas Tech trustee has been on a mission to allow conference executives to pool their college football rights and sell them off like Powerball tickets to the streamers. Herewith, the blowback to the blowback.
Cody Campbell
John Ourand October 6, 2025
The former NFL player and billionaire Texas Tech booster Cody Campbell struck a nerve with his radical proposal to overhaul the Sports Broadcasting Act. But is there actually some logic to his quixotic plan?


College Football
John Ourand October 2, 2025
News and notes on the platform’s recently announced temporary deal to semi-ingest NBCU.
NFL
John Ourand September 29, 2025
Super-analyst Michael Nathanson offers a candid view of the sports rights dialectic taking place between the legacy media companies, who need these games more than ever, and the hyperscalers with all the money in the universe.
NFL
John Ourand September 25, 2025
The league and its broadcast partners are weighing early renegotiations of their billion-dollar media deals, with a possible 18th game and new streaming packages on the table.
College Football
John Ourand September 22, 2025
The sports media world erupted last month when word leaked that Netflix was looking at ways to stream the Notre Dame–USC game—despite the fact that Notre Dame is under contract with NBC, and USC’s rights are tied up with the Big Ten. The saga, more than anything, spotlighted Netflix’s aggressive plan to “eventize” sports.


UFC
John Ourand September 18, 2025
Even with Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon dangling global deals, TKO is betting on its in-house partner IMG and U.S. cash.
NFL
John Ourand September 15, 2025
Right now, we’re wading through a bizarre and likely ephemeral market in which the linear players have become preferred destinations for sports rights. Will this all end when the NFL hits the block? And when it does, who will get left out?
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