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Chris Berman Details How His Latest Contract Extension With ESPN Happened
“I said, ‘Wouldn't that be kind of cool?’ His eyes lit up, and he goes yeah, that would be a thing."
ESPN Announces Official Name And Pricing For New Direct To Consumer Service
“There’s power in our name. There’s trust in our name."
ESPN Signs Chris Berman To Multi-Year Contract Extension
"“Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined turning 70 and still being here."
Disney CEO Bob Iger Reveals New ESPN DTC Product Info To Be Released Next Week
“That service will have many more features than the linear service will have."
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..."