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Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:04:37 David Rosenthal You know, we've got the cable network landscape these days, we've got ESPN, we've got sitcoms, we've got kids shows, we've got all this different media.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:47 David Rosenthal So Lalit goes to the Walt Disney Company, and Disney, of course, owns 80% of ESPN at this point in time, and says, hey, my family has this JV with Philip Morris, you know, help them enter the Indian market.
- ▶ 9:04 David Rosenthal It's not ESPN yet.
- ▶ 12:57 David Rosenthal Lalit sees this, he's got the partnership with Disney, he's always been interested in sports, and he's like, well, hey guys, you have ESPN.
- ▶ 13:08 David Rosenthal So Lalit and ESPN and Disney, they go to IMG, the big international sports agency, which we didn't plan this at all.
- ▶ 13:32 David Rosenthal So Lalit and ESPN and IMG, they go to the national
- ▶ 19:32 David Rosenthal So all this launches ESPN in India, and there's back and forth for a couple years between Star and ESPN.
- ▶ 19:53 David Rosenthal So Star and ESPN merge, and to hear Lalit tell the story,
- ▶ 19:58 David Rosenthal Rupert Murdoch is kind of a, you know, sore loser here that Lalit came in and increased the money that he had to spend for these cricket rights, ultimately had to merge with ESPN.
- ▶ 20:31 David Rosenthal There's a big lawsuit about it, goes on for a couple of years, and at the end of it, Lalit gets booted out of the business, and despite his family's 50% ownership in that original ESPN Disney joint venture, he gets nothing.
- ▶ 25:00 David Rosenthal Mind you, he was, like, directly involved in buying them for cheap when he was back at ESPN, but now he's like, I know how valuable these are.
- ▶ 43:01 David Rosenthal Remember Star and ESPN had merged.
- ▶ 43:31 David Rosenthal He's gonna do just what he did back with ESPN in the first place back in the day.
- ▶ 56:23 David Rosenthal He goes back to IMG, who remember he had initially partnered with, with Disney and ESPN way back in the day to start broadcasting cricket in India in the first place, and says, hey, I need to hire you as consultants from the BCCI.
- ▶ 1:42:32 David Rosenthal ESPN and Disney corporate says that they are interested in bidding on these rights separately from Star, which they're already a JV in, but they think this is so interesting they're interested in bidding.
- ▶ 3:01:52 Ben Gilbert Oh, the ESPN alerts during the offseason of who's signing where, and yeah.
- ▶ 3:02:05 David Rosenthal All the best practices of Fox and ESPN all throughout the world and bring them here to the IPL.
- ▶ 3:17:16 Ben Gilbert So you got ESPN, ABC, Disney's deal, Fox's deal, CBS's deal, NBC's deal, Amazon's deal, Google's deal with YouTube, Netflix's deal, Peacock's deal, and the NFL Network.