"For now, the man who once looked like the biggest risk ESPN ever took may actually be the network’s best example of how to maximize the relationship without walking away from the brand that helped build it."
"The uniqueness of that was super appealing to me, as opposed to just a regular news program where you're just talking at viewers. I think where media is headed, too, in terms of the future."
"It would be so easy in my chair to say, well, then we're just doing the same thing on both because I can save myself, you know, five extra meetings a week if both stations are virtually duplicate. But we don't do that here. "
It was the highest-rated primetime Saturday for the network since its breaking news coverage in July 2024 after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
"There are a lot of people who don’t necessarily watch the sports talk shows but really like when people involved in those shows appear to be feuding."
“It's also a good thing to kind of just celebrate summer, because what's better than being outdoors at a summer concert? Cold beer, free tickets. Come on."
"We aged down their audience because we could actually allow that content now to live alongside all of this other amazing, creator-first sports content that was happening on YouTube"
Some sided with Carlson, others criticized the former Fox News host, while some focused on his interview ability and disagreed about whether or not he was guilty of using "gotcha" journalism.
"The uniqueness of that was super appealing to me, as opposed to just a regular news program where you're just talking at viewers. I think where media is headed, too, in terms of the future."
"It would be so easy in my chair to say, well, then we're just doing the same thing on both because I can save myself, you know, five extra meetings a week if both stations are virtually duplicate. But we don't do that here. "