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Meet The Podcasters: Mike Foss, ESPN
"Podcasts are a very intimate thing. It's an intimate one-to-one relationship with the listener. It makes sense to lean so heavily on the talent when you're marketing and presenting it.:
Jimmy Pitaro: ESPN Direct-to-Consumer Launch is ‘Probably the Biggest Transition in Our History’
"This might be the biggest move since getting the full season of the NFL."
The ESPN Pat McAfee Question: When Is Enough, Enough?
"The real question is how far ESPN will be willing to go in the name of audience expansion and revenue—at the risk of alienating the standards of the worldwide leader."
Jimmy Pitaro: If MLB is Interested in ‘Working Out Some Kind of New Construct,’ ESPN is As Well
"I don’t know where they are at this point, but as I’ve said repeatedly, if they do reach out and they’re interested in talking, we’re of course going to listen."
Joe Buck: ESPN Would Love To Be In Business With MLB
"I know Jimmy to be a huge baseball fan, a huge Yankee fan. So the idea that he or ESPN would just wash their hands of baseball, I just don’t believe that.”
Jimmy Pitaro: ESPN App Will Be Significantly Enhanced This Fall
"...we want you to go to the ESPN App and authenticate because that’s where we’re going to have all of these enhanced experiences..."
Why Sports Media Should Be Celebrating Stephen A. Smith Resetting the Market With a New Record Breaking Contract at ESPN
"What Smith's new deal implies is that there's a reward for being at the top of your profession. It shows that ESPN values its top people too."
ESPN Wanted Annual MLB Rights Fee Reduction by $350 Million: Report
ESPN was reportedly aiming to slash its annual rights fee to no more than $200 million per year.
Breaking Barriers: What ESPN Did That Sports Radio Couldn’t
"I challenge any radio broadcasting company with any media rights partnership to attempt to replicate how Jimmy Pitaro built and positioned ESPN "
ESPN, NFL Discuss Control Over NFL Media Including NFL Network: Report
"I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited than anything I’ve been attached to or worked on, primarily because I’m a sports fan."