The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Bill Simmons: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell lied about Ray Rice
“And they did. Though Rice's told them. No, he lied.”
Simmons: ESPN canceled scheduled 2008 Obama interview over political bias concerns
“ESPN squashed it, and they squashed it for reasons that... I didn't fully understand. ESPN was very worried about... Bias, or... Seeming like they were biased one way or the other, with Democrats, Republicans, whatever it was. And they were just like, well, yo…”
ESPN Undersold Grantland's $8M Podcast Ad Inventory For $750k, Says Bill Simmons
“They sold all of our podcasts advertised in the subway for 750,000 dollars a year. When we had, it was easily six, seven, eight million dollars worth of advertising we could have gotten from the pods at that time.”
Bill Simmons Was Shocked Spotify Paid $200M For Gimlet's $10M Revenue
“And then they bought Gimlet and they bought Gimlet for like two hundred million dollars. And we were like, wow, Gimlet makes like Ten million dollars a year. They just got two hundred million dollars. Like, what the hell? Like, we were way more profitable than…”
Simmons: Grantland broke even and produced nine of ESPN's top ten podcasts
“Grantland broke even, but we should have made more money. We had nine of the top 10 podcasts at ESPN during a time when podcasts were starting to make real money and they didn't know how to monetize it.”
Simmons: Sports-driven talk shows have not worked on TV in 15 years
“Especially sports-driven talk shows, there's really no record of them working in the last 15 years.”
Simmons: Yahoo tried to recruit him away from ESPN in 2007
“That I had, my contract was coming up the beginning of oh seven and Yahoo was trying to get me to jump over, which I didn't want to do.”
Simmons: Pod Save America podcast originally started at The Ringer
“Like even like we had the pod save America guys, that podcast started with us.”
Simmons: Early Newspaper Pitch Presaged Future Internet Column Formats
“I remember I spent two weeks. I pointed out this whole Sunday thing for the Sunday paper, this whole page that I wanted them to give me. And it was like, it had like a 600 work column. It had these lists. It looked a lot like kind of what the internet would lo…”