Brian Rolapp on NFL Sunday Ticket

The NFL’s chief media and enterprise officer Brian Rolapp joins the podcast simply three days earlier than the Tremendous Bowl to debate the league’s media technique together with its blockbuster Sunday Ticket take care of Google YouTube.

Rolapp outlines how the deal happened and discusses how the Sunday Ticket package may change after spending practically 30 years on DirecTV. He additionally solutions questions in regards to the NFL’s push to discover a firm to associate on the NFL’s media properties, together with NFL Community, RedZone Channel and NFL.com.

Rolapp discusses adjustments viewers will discover within the new tv packages that kick-in subsequent season, particularly flex scheduling for ESPN’s “Monday Night time Soccer” and, probably, for Amazon’s “Thursday Night time Soccer.” Marchand and Ourand ask him about his ideas on the Professional Bowl weekend in Las Vegas, the way forward for NFL+ and the chance of getting the league train an choose out in its broadcast offers seven years from now.

Different questions hit on the variety of NFL Media’s workers and the NFL’s place on playing. As ordinary, Marchand and Ourand open the pod with their picks for Who’s Up and Who’s Down for the week in sports activities media.