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Welcome back to The Varsity, my twice-weekly private email on
all the machinations of the sports media cinematic universe. The videos, pictures, and stories emanating from L.A. are heartbreaking. My partners Peter Hamby and Dylan Byers, two adopted Angelenos, discussed the harrowing situation, and the local media response, on an impactful episode of The Powers That Be podcast this morning
(listen here). The L.A. fires are going to have profound second-, third-, and fourth-order impacts on the sports media world, from the rescheduling of this weekend’s NFL wild card game at SoFi to the personal lives of so many dislocated Angelenos.
Stay safe, everyone.
🚨🚨 Pod alert: TGL, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s made-for-TV virtual golf league, launched on ESPN this past Tuesday. And so Mike McCarley, the former Golf Channel president who founded TMRW Sports with Tiger and Rory, joins The Varsity this weekend to spill the beans. In the meantime, make sure you
listen to the most recent episode—a conversation with my partner Eriq Gardner about Disney’s unexpected deal to merge Hulu+Live TV with Fubo.
Let’s
get to it…
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Diamond Sports Group has emerged from bankruptcy reborn, renamed,
and with Norby (!!)—but is it all too little, too late? Plus, news and notes on Liberty and Peacock.
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This week’s most fascinating personnel news, which once again reinforced the
international growth potential of the sports media business, seemed to be John Malone’s anointment of Derek Chang as the C.E.O. and president of Liberty Media. Chang, a former NBA and DirecTV executive, most recently ran EverPass Media, the joint venture between the NFL and RedBird Capital. Now, he’ll be growing Formula One and MotoGP for the insatiable and ageless Malone. (Liberty owns F1, and its purchase of MotoGP should close by summer.) Among the items on
Chang’s to-do list will be cutting a new deal for Formula One’s U.S. media rights, as its current ESPN deal expires after...
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Puck sports correspondent John Ourand and a rotating cast of industry insiders take you inside the executive
suites and owners boxes where the decisions that shape the entire sports business are made. You’ll hear interviews with players, network execs, and everyone in between. The Varsity is an extension of John’s private email for Puck by the same name. New episodes publish every Wednesday and Sunday.
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Ace media reporter Dylan Byers brings readers into the C-suite as he chronicles the biggest stories in the
industry: the future of cable news in the streaming era, the transformation of legacy publishers, the tech giants remaking the market, and all the egos involved.
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