On the 37-minute pod, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel go in-depth on the NFL playoff broadcast crews, beginning with everything Tom Brady. This is what you need to know:

* To listen to the entire 37-minute podcast, become a full subscriber at AndrewMarchand.com

* The duo goes into detail about how Tom Brady has improved, where he needs to get better and if he should be treated like Edward R. Murrow.

* Marchand ranks his top two NFL TV game analysts for this year. Where does Greg Olsen stock up?

* Joe Buck and Troy Aikman had the strongest TV performance of the weekend.

* Tony Romo has been a little better this season, but there is still some chemistry missing with Jim Nantz

* Mike Tirico has moved into the top class, while Cris Collinsworth’s style has changed over the years as he’s become less critical.

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* The duo goes into Fox Sports’ Brad Zager’s comments to Marchand in The Athletic about Brady’s perceived conflicts of interest

* Marchand reported for The Athletic that Kevin Harlan is close to a deal with Amazon to join Ian Eagle as the platform’s top NBA play-by-players. What do Marchand and Meterparel think of the move?

* What should we know about the LIV golf and Fox deal?

* Your Questions: Will Nantz and Romo be a team in 2029? Will Fox ever go back to a three-man booth?

* Papa Clicker Book Review: In the “Baseball The Movie” by Noah Gittell.

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* And Jon’s cat, Harry, makes his first appearance on the pod. 🐈

* Related pods: The Main Event with Joe Buck … The Main Event with Eli Manning

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* On-deck Thursday: Boomer Esiason is The Main Event

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On the 33-minute podcast, Andrew Marchand and John Ourand are reunited for their monthly Main Event. Here’s what you need to know.

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* Marchand and Ourand explain how the NFL could use its international expansion and its potential 18th game to create a Netflix package

* Marchand and Ourand predict where the UFC rights will land

* Marchand and Ourand tell what the ESPN, Fubo, Hulu + Live TV and DirecTV moves mean

* Marchand and Ourand opine about what ESPN and these distributors need to focus on for success

* Marchand and Ourand say that ESPN will opt-out of its MLB deal in March, then what?

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* With Altice keeping MSG Networks off its air, depriving many New York area fans of the Knicks, Rangers, Devils and Islanders, Marchand and Ourand go into how the RSN conundrum is now hitting bigger markets and is unlikely to stop.

* Related pods: ESPN vs. the Netflixization of sports … Marchand & Ourand and the next battle of the sports streaming wars

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On the 35-minute “Everybody Loves Sports Media,” Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel provide inside information and analysis on the biggest topics. Here’s what you need to know.

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* Topics include: Where Tom Brady stands as a broadcaster

* Jim Nantz and Tony Romo are making less mistakes, but struggle in garbage time

* Evaluations of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, Ian Eagle and Charles Davis, Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit

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* How Venu Sports is dead, but its memory will live on

* ESPN’s thinking on its No. 1 NBA crew with Richard Jefferson facing an internal contender

* Norby Williamson makes a big move

* Jason McCourty was dropping one liners on The Main Event.

* Could Mina Kimes enter a regular season booth one day

* Bluesky vs. X: Who ya got?

* College football playoff sked changes?

* Praise for Dick Vitale, Herbstreit and criticism for Rex Ryan and Greg McElroy

* Related pods: ESPN vs. the Netflixization of sports … Joe Buck and the craft of sportscasting.

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On the 35-minute podcast, CBS/ESPN/Netflix’s Jason McCourty is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand,” McCourty, 37, had an excellent 13-year NFL career, but was not a Hall of Famer, nor a quarterback. Nonetheless, he has risen very quickly in media — how has he done it? That’s the main topic of the pod.

This is what you need to know:

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* Topics include: Insight into how Bill Belichick was behind-the-scenes as a coach and how it was displayed as a media personality

* How during McCourty’s 13-year career he started to look at a media career

* How he and his twin brother, NBC's Devin, started a podcast that launched their careers, including his funny ribbing of his brother

* The difference between Nashville and Boston as media markets

* If what players say to the media has any impact on a team's success

* What did McCourty think of his former coach, Mike Mularkey admitting to purposely giving NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, false information

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* After a player retires, how does he transition into media

* When Marchand broke the story on McCourty going to NFL Network

* What did McCourty learn at NFL Broadcast Boot Camp and how he and his brother had a little cheat code

* Why he chose to get up early every morning for Good Morning Football

* How GMFB and radio games were the best thing that he could do to start

* What he thinks of Tom Brady's broadcasting career

* How he compares calling games to studio shows

* What does he want to accomplish in his media career

* Related pods: Eli Manning … Booger McFarland … Cam Heyward

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On the 35-minute, “Everybody Loves Sports Media” pod, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel hit on the biggest issues and topics in sports media. Here is what you need to know:

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* ESPN is facing the Netflixization of sports head on

* ESPN is trying to win distribution again with new deals

* Netflix is for real as sports rights players

* The NFL very badly wants Netflix to be successful

* The Brady Meter: What grades do we give Tom for the regular season

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* ESPN’s second MNF team needs to improve

* Are the College Football Playoffs working on TV

* Amazon has got their first three NBA hires right

* Laura Rutledge receives praise

* Jason Kelce’s new show needs work

* Adam Archuleta “really” was focused

* Charles Barkley’s take down of “Jason Monroe”

* What is the future for Fox NFL Sunday

* Is CBS’ NFL Today better

* Should the Bottom Line tickers be gone on game telecasts

* Joe Buck and Chris Oliviero interview reactions

* WFAN discusses Marchand Sports Media business plan on its top-rated “Boomer & Gio"

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* Thursday’s Main Event Guest: Jason McCourty

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Joe Buck is the guest on the 44-minute, “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Marchand and Buck discuss the advice he gives to young broadcasters, while detailing aspects of his career. Here’s what you need to know:

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* How to become a sportscaster

* How his dad influenced his career

* How he got to trail his dad at the ballpark

* Why you say yes to all events as you come up

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* Why at 16 he wanted to become a broadcaster

* Dealing with nepotism and feeling guilty

* His dad's advice to kids: Start smoking

* What is the top advice he gives young people who want to be sportscasters

* How you have to use different words during play-by-play

* How you should read to improve your vocabulary

* He hates the word, "right"

* Younger sportscasters are insecure about dead air.

* Would John Madden had been as good with Vin Scully as Pat Summerall

* How should a young sportscaster figure out his or her style

* Related Pods: Jim Nantz ….. Fred Gaudelli

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In the 26-minute "Everybody Loves Sports Media: Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel" look ahead to the biggest stories of 2025. What you need to know:

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* What does Tom Brady need to do with the Super Bowl looming

* How will ESPN's DTC fare when it debuts

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* Will we see more consolidation in how we watch sports

* How do we think the new NBA coverage with ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video

* What will happen with ESPN's opt-out, the RSNs and MLB

* Will Stephen A. Smith move more into politics?

* Thursday’s Guest: Joe Buck

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Chris Oliviero is probably the most powerful sports radio executive in the country. Oliviero, the president of Audacy New York and Infinity Sports Network, is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”

Known as “The Architect” around WFAN, he is one of the best people anywhere to ask: What is the future of sports radio?

He answered that, while looking back at the past.

Here is what you need to know

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* Reminisced about Marchand and Mike Francesa's battles

* Francesa wanting Marchand to bring $500,000 to the FAN studios

* How Oliviero interned for Howard Stern after being rejected by FAN

* How he believes sports radio is very healthy and is growing

* He explains how it is changing

* How will the future finances for on-air personalities work for sports radio

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* How Mike and the Mad Dog gave WFAN credibility as a young station

* How Don Imus was, of course, wrong when he was fired, but technology changed during his run

* What was it like from an executive perspective when Francesa and Russo broke up

* How FAN came up with Boomer & Carton after Imus was fired

* After Carton resigned, how Gregg Giannotti made it to FAN mornings

* How putting radio shows on is like casting a TV show

* What happened with "Carlin, Bart and Maggie"

* How Francesa came out of retirement

* Why he thought bringing the retired John Sterling back for the playoffs was the right move

* How WFAN has "live" as an advantage over other media

* When is he bringing Carton back

* Does he look at WFAN vs. ESPN NY as the end of an era

* Related Pod: How Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo became arguably the greatest sports talk show host ever.

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On the 24-minute “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media,” Andrew Marchand and Jon Meteparel hand out the 2024 awards and discuss.

Here is what they talk about:

* The "What's Up" of the Year are ...

* The "What's Down" of the Year are ..

* Who was the Sports Media Player of the Year ...

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* Who was the Flip-Flopper of the Year ...

* Who had the Worst Performance of the Year ...

* Who was under the Biggest Microscope of the Year...

* Who was Biggest Newsmaker of the Year ...

* Who was the Next Level performer of the Year ...

* What was the Biggest Sports Media story of the Year ...

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* Thursday’s Guest: Chris Oliviero

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In a 24-minute special edition of “Marchand and Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media,” Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel discuss what Netflix’s new Women’s World Cup deal, combined with its NFL games on Christmas Day and WWE rights, means for the future of live sports.

Here is what else is in the pod:

* Netflix is fully in on live sports after winning the Women’s Wold Cup rights for 2027 and 2031

* Why the Netflix moves are actually a counter-intuitive win for ESPN/Disney

* Are we seeing the end of the creation of new TV sports show hits

* The latest on NBA TV free agency with Charles Barkley, etc.

* Why the NBA “Deck The Halls” of Christmas may be a winner for ESPN

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* Why Bill Belichick needs to be talked about less

* The NFL should get rid of their double doubleheaders

* Why women’s college hoops are having a significant moment

* Scott Pioli praise for Belichick comments

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The Papa Clicker Book Review Holiday Gift Guide by Herb Marchand

* Stan Issacs: Out of Left Field, A Sportswriter’s Last Word, edited by Aram Goudsouzian: 4.7 clickers

* The Price: What it takes to win in College Football in an Era of Change, by Armen Keteyian and John Talty: 4.6 clickers

* The Big Time, How the 1970’s Transformed Sports in America, by Michael MacCambridge: 4.6 clickers

* The Tigerbelles, Legends by Tennessee State, by Aime Alley Card: 4.6 clickers

* The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of the New York City, by Kevin Baker: 4.6 clickers

* The Ancient Eight: College Football’s Ivy League and the Game they play today, by John Feinstein: 4.55 clickers

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* Preview: Tuesday, we are back with our year end special and on Thursday, maybe the most powerful exec in sports radio, Chris Oliviero joins Marchand.

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* Thanks for your understanding about last Tuesday’s podcast. We wanted to get you a make-up podcast as soon as possible. Hope you like it!