In the 42-minute podcast, Puck’s John Ourand joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand” for the monthly Marchand & Ourand reunion
What’s on tap:
Ourand is curious about if Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football can out-rate ESPN's Monday Night Football this season
Why Amazon has the best sports strategy of the streamers
How Amazon has created one of the great modern bundles and where sports fits
Why Ourand is fascinated by Amazon's channel strategy and the comparison with Jimmy Pitaro's ESPN DTC app
How the YouTube game translates into the NFL's plans for an expanded international package
How YouTube's international numbers were disappointing
Marchand thinks globalization for sports viewing is a little overrated
Why Marchand thinks an international package might be split up different
Why soccer is the winner in sports viewing globalization
How Marchand & Ourand have found using the new ESPN app
Why ESPN is not cutting the cord with new app
The WWE events create a fatter cable bundle, according to Ourand
How many people want an RSN app, who don't already have it
The advantage for the subscriber with the ESPN app
Why the RSNs are hedging their bets
The dangers of making apps too expensive
The YouTube NFL Friday number compared to Peacock's a year ago
The power of NBC marketing
How NBA new partners will come second nature and how NBC will use NFL to promote its NBA
Ourand says NASCAR streaming is comparable to network
Why the ratings are a little suspect everywhere
The CW with best game of the week and maybe there is a middle
Ourand says the RedZone commercials are a big deal
The best part of the Manningcast
Peyton Manning tries to get the Pope on MNF
Peacock has most new stuff outside of ESPN
Why Marchand doesn't like ESPN's soccer strategy
Ourand officially owes Marchand a steak over ESPN app launch bet
Ourand starts talking Orioles and Marchand had enough
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