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Amazon's bid to unseat ESPN for NFL primetime weeknight supremacy

Amazon's bid to unseat ESPN for NFL primetime weeknight supremacy

Update: 2025-09-11
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.andrewmarchand.com

In the 42-minute podcast, Puck’s John Ourand joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand” for the monthly Marchand & Ourand reunion

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What’s on tap:

* Ourand is curious about if Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football can out-rate ESPN's Monday Night Football this season

* Why Amazon has the best sports strategy of the streamers

* How Amazon has created one of the great modern bundles and where sports fits

* Why Ourand is fascinated by Amazon's channel strategy and the comparison with Jimmy Pitaro's ESPN DTC app

* How the YouTube game translates into the NFL's plans for an expanded international package

* How YouTube's international numbers were disappointing

* Marchand thinks globalization for sports viewing is a little overrated

* Why Marchand thinks an international package might be split up different

* Why soccer is the winner in sports viewing globalization

* How Marchand & Ourand have found using the new ESPN app

* Why ESPN is not cutting the cord with new app

* The WWE events create a fatter cable bundle, according to Ourand

* How many people want an RSN app, who don't already have it

* The advantage for the subscriber with the ESPN app

* Why the RSNs are hedging their bets

* The dangers of making apps too expensive

* The YouTube NFL Friday number compared to Peacock's a year ago

* The power of NBC marketing

* How NBA new partners will come second nature and how NBC will use NFL to promote its NBA

* Ourand says NASCAR streaming is comparable to network

* Why the ratings are a little suspect everywhere

* The CW with best game of the week and maybe there is a middle

* Ourand says the RedZone commercials are a big deal

* The best part of the Manningcast

* Peyton Manning tries to get the Pope on MNF

* Peacock has most new stuff outside of ESPN

* Why Marchand doesn't like ESPN's soccer strategy

* Ourand officially owes Marchand a steak over ESPN app launch bet

* Ourand starts talking Orioles and Marchand had enough

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Amazon's bid to unseat ESPN for NFL primetime weeknight supremacy

Amazon's bid to unseat ESPN for NFL primetime weeknight supremacy

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