"Netflix has spent eight months building the sports podcast portfolio. Now the NFL season will determine whether it has built a destination for sports podcasts — or simply just another collection of shows you have to pay for."
"We used to be a toddler, but the last couple of years we’ve outgrown our clothes a bit. That’s a compliment to what we’ve done. We’ve grown and matured quite a bit."
"Perhaps the biggest issue I have is there’s nobody there to set the scene, or to build drama in key moments. Those big sequences in a game need a play-by-play announcer to let you know just how important this situation is to the game."
"I do think they go to a tech company or a someone who is solely focused on streaming those games," Wasserman predicted. "That's the next generation of monetization of those fans."
The network also announced that the audience peaked right when they wanted it to, at the end of an exciting second half that saw the Stallions come back to win 33-30. That audience number topped at 1,834,000 during the 10:30-10:45pm ET window.
"I don't want to get aggregated as 'Le Batard Dances on Hank Goldberg's Grave'...I would never say that I am happy to see anyone die. I am just saying that I was never that happy when he was alive."
"When Ray Rice was on the elevator punching his then fiancée now wife, we all had to talk about it. They were very clear that I couldn’t weigh in. What does that look like? We're talking about domestic violence and you have the only woman in the show not being able to discuss it."
"Netflix has spent eight months building the sports podcast portfolio. Now the NFL season will determine whether it has built a destination for sports podcasts — or simply just another collection of shows you have to pay for."
"We used to be a toddler, but the last couple of years we’ve outgrown our clothes a bit. That’s a compliment to what we’ve done. We’ve grown and matured quite a bit."