"I think ESPN rightly wanted to own and operate and produce RedZone outright because of the galactic popularity of the show. But the NFL, for their reasons, wanted to retain control of the production of RedZone."
"The whole world is a really big thing to cram into just three minutes at the top of that cast. There's a lot of decision-making that has to happen about what we're covering and how much time we're giving to each story, because you don't have a whole lot of time to do it. But that's kind of the fun part of it."
Several program directors, meanwhile, who air the newscasts, said they were not briefed by the network that select newscasts would be pre-recorded or re-aired.
"Happy to report I have landed on my feet. After the demise of CBS Radio and the purge of the entire staff, I have been hired to anchor newscasts at NPR."
"People often assume that a cloud product isn't closely connected to traditional broadcasting. We can run everything in the cloud, but whenever you want to use hardware, we can integrate with virtually any traditional broadcast equipment."
"I think ESPN rightly wanted to own and operate and produce RedZone outright because of the galactic popularity of the show. But the NFL, for their reasons, wanted to retain control of the production of RedZone."