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For the 46-minute sports media podcast, Puck’s John Ourand joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand” for “Marchand & Ourand, The Monthly.”

The duo deeply analyzes the TNT Sports component to the Netflix-Warner Bros.-Paramount dynamic. They evaluate how the NFL may sell Thanksgiving and the conference championships in the future.

They delve into Apple TV as future players in light of the redone MLS deal. Plus, what is Netflix fully up to and more.

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The Rundown …

* What is the impact on TNT Sports of the Warner Bros-Netflix-Paramount fight

* If the Netflix deal goes through, TNT Sports would have flexibility

* There is a next phase for platforms with sub-licensing

* How much will TNT Sports be able to afford on its own

* Paramount-Warner Bros. could rival ESPN

* Marchand & Ourand disagree if Paramount/Warner Bros. would be good for leagues or not

* Does the Ellisons’ overall Paramount plan make sense

* Will Paramount be aggressive with TNT Sports or not

* What is Netflix’s plan in sports

* Ourand breaks news about his travel schedule

* What Netflix will want and what it won’t

* Leagues need to understand what platforms can do for them

* Why Peacock and NBA makes sense over 11 years

* Did Ourand get in front of MLS commissioner Don Garber and start doing 180s on Apple

* How the NFL could sell Thanksgiving Day and the conference championships

* Big time streamers don’t want small events

* Why the government could have a say on the future of NFL rights

* Why the NFL is in charge of where TV goes

* How will the Netflix MLB events do

* What is Apple TV doing in sports

* The Apple-MLS redo of the deal tells us a lot

* Eddy Cue seems idealistic, not realistic

* Prime Video’s strategy makes sense

* MLB may be good for Apple TV, but …

* Why the local Prime Video Yankee games make sense compared to Apple TV’s national ones

* MLS will go to market early … what will it find

* Will there be a World Cup bump for soccer in the United States

* In a digital world, having the World Cup domestically is less impactful

* Ourand goes back in the memory bank when he was a kid

* Marchand & Ourand, The Monthly, becoming a twice-monthly?

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