"Steve Levy is a puker, but he's a competent broadcaster. He's a great guy, and a very good broadcaster, and I used to play softball with him, but he's a puker."
It was reported in January of last year that ESPN was considering shopping the event to potential bidders. At that time, the reported asking price was $50 million.
"We will have live programming from a minimum of 8 a.m. Eastern until at least 5 p.m. Eastern every day. That's live. You're gonna love it. It's gonna be outstanding."
"My bosses have given me these opportunities. And whatever that is, I want to try to dominate that box. Whatever that box is, I want to maximize it. I want to make it grow and bloom and flourish with resonance that far surpasses what I had maybe hoped for."
"We're all in the advertising and marketing business, in the small niche world that we live in, and we think, 'Oh yeah, use it to make a headline, use it to write copy or do a summary of something.' And yeah, they're using it for that. But it's a remarkably small percentage. And they're also not using it to any great extent right now for marketing and advertising recommendations."