Sports Media Weekly No. 116- Ed Sherman, The Sherman Report

http://sportsmediajournal.com/ It’s an all-news edition of Sports Media Weekly this week. Ken Fang of Fang’s Bites and I are joined for the entire program by Ed Sherman of The Sherman Report. We lead off the show by talking about yesterday’s news that ESPN and Major League Baseball reached an eight year contract extension for the network to continue carrying baseball. We talk about what the deal means to ESPN as well as the other networks (Fox, NBC, Turner) who will be involved in negotiating the rest of the MLB package before the end of next season. As part of the baseball discussion we look at the rights fees that will soon be coming available (NASCAR and The Big East Conference to name two) and whether NBC Sports will make a play as part of its plans to expand the programming on the NBC Sports Network. Ed then fills us in on an incident today involving Notre Dame football radio analyst Allen Pinkett. We wrap-up the show by looking ahead to the college football season and, despite the ratings, our collective passive interest in the NFL preseason.