‘Marchand and Ourand’ podcast Episode 97: ESPN’s future, MLS & Messi and The Huge Get Mike Tirico

On this week’s Marchand & Ourand Sports activities Media Podcast, Mike Tirico joins the present one 12 months earlier than the beginning of the Summer season Olympics in Paris.

Tirico talks about his preparation for internet hosting these video games with NBC and his function in masking geopolitical tales in the course of the video games.

Tirico describes how he broke into the enterprise, how he landed a job at ESPN and what made him transfer to NBC.

He additionally discusses the state of affairs early in his NBC tenure when he wasn’t calling NFL video games and the way he saved from being annoyed.

Marchand and Ourand open the podcast with a dialogue across the firm Disney is more than likely to choose as a strategic associate on ESPN, from Comcast to sports activities leagues to enterprise capital to Huge Tech to playing.

The 2 hosts then speak in regards to the story Ourand broke in regards to the variety of MLS Season Go subscribers approaching a million.

The dialog turns to parsing Apple’s sports activities ambitions additional and a evaluation of the Pac-12’s Media Day.

As all the time, Marchand and Ourand give their picks for Who’s Up and Who’s Down in sports activities media for the week.