"Our promise is to put on real life human voices in our radio hosts and podcasters. To ensure that there would always be a human, there had all sorts of consequences from listeners being so thankful for that promise. But also for our own employees."
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."
"Even when the NBA Finals are tipping off. Even when the Stanley Cup is being contested. Most sports need games to control the conversation. The NFL just needs a headline."
"The biggest lesson from Inside the NBA's first season on ESPN isn't that the show suddenly became less talented, less entertaining, or less insightful. It's that audiences can't engage with a show they rarely see."
"We're going to cover and report the NFL, it's called the NFL Network. But we're not going to investigate the NFL. We'll leave that to what we do on the ESPN platform."
"Regular-season TV revenue grew 6% to $4.2 billion. Postseason growth was even steeper, as the NFL’s 13-game January/February slate generated $1.62 billion in total sales, an 8.5% gain that works out to an additional $127 million."
"This week, I signed my new deal with ESPN, one that was agreed to a few weeks ago, to appear across platforms -- a true full circle moment. Surreal is the word I would use now that it is officially official."
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."