ESPN, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 45Bill Simmons 23Nirav Tolia 4Robert "Bob" Johnson 2Monica Nassif 2John Hendricks 2Sham Patel 1Selina Tobaccowala 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where ESPN comes up
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 24:30 Nirav Tolia That we could build a successful business and a user-generated content and online community version of ESPN. 4 times in the scene
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 9:58 Monica Nassif I am not babysitting Pat and Danny, but they loved our house because we had one of the first ESPN channels. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Randy Goldberg of Bombas
- ▶ 24:45 Sham Patel On TikTok and Instagram, and I think even the ESPN TikTok, they post videos sometimes of like people playing the game, like in the traditional format.
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 0:58 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a bitter falling out with ESPN led its star sports writer and broadcaster Bill Simmons to build his own two hundred and fifty million dollar media company, The Ringer. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:35 Bill Simmons And, you know, I've talked about this before, but the most important thing that happened with the internet and sports writing was when, um, Peter Gamitz got hired by ESPN. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:47 Bill Simmons And I went to ESPN, and I said, hey, I've loved writing for you guys, but I don't know if I'm gonna be able to keep doing this, because I think I'm gonna do this Boston Herald thing. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:16 Guy Raz So it's 2001, and Bill has a new job at ESPN, and finally, his own column. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:39 Guy Raz And I was wondering how ESPN let you do that, but of course they're both Disney companies, so I guess it was okay. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:38 Guy Raz And I think this is roughly the point where you started expanding your role at ESPN beyond, uh, just writing and into things like, uh, podcasts and documentary series. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:04 Bill Simmons And ESPN squashed it, and they squashed it for reasons that... 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:02 Guy Raz This is a multimedia website that you basically put together in 2011, and it was part of ESPN, and it was, it was amazing. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:08 Bill Simmons Yeah, that we had ESPN, the magazine that, you know, I left, and we had ESPN.com that could kind of control whether they sent us promotion or not, and they always considered us as an adversary, so it started to feel like we weren't on the…
- ▶ 53:26 Bill Simmons It was that I, I stupidly dared ESPN to, like, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:10 Guy Raz So, it's September of 2014, and Bill is suspended from ESPN for three weeks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:38 Guy Raz When you left ESPN and you started to think about what you could do, you were already kind of thinking about it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:41 Guy Raz And one thing I'm curious about is you had worked for ESPN for 14 years, and they were really running the business side. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:33 Bill Simmons I think I have two years left, and I am committed because I want Spotify to win the same way I wanted ESPN to win once upon a time. 2 times in the scene
Zumiez: Tom Campion
Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- ▶ 2:50 Guy Raz The early stations are ones we know today, CNN, MTV, HBO, ESPN.
- ▶ 14:18 John Hendricks Cable channels that had started, by that time there was a cable news network, you know, there was a sports network, ESPN, that started in 79, and there were plans for music television, MTV.
- ▶ 27:35 John Hendricks And then what Ted Turner and others like ESPN, who many times had to launch without charging the cable operator any fee, they all clung to the hope that someday the cable operator could charge what the market would bear.
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
- ▶ 12:05 Selina Tobaccowala You had ESPN Sports, which you might love.
Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
- ▶ 15:34 Robert "Bob" Johnson I remember when I was talking to Ted when he was starting, and the same thing with the guys with ESPN. 2 times in the scene