{"id":49521,"date":"2025-08-07T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:20:07","slug":"espn-jumps-into-bed-with-the-nfl-what-about-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49521\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Jumps Into Bed With the NFL. What About Everyone Else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIVE SHOW in Los Angeles on August 27. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theelrey.com\/events\/detail\/1052853\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060Click here for tickets!\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt is joined by Huddle Up\u2019s Joe Pompliano to break down why the NFL is acquiring a 10 percent stake in ESPN in exchange for NFL Network and other media assets. They discuss the complicated details of this deal and what\u2019s in it for both sides, including how this will affect ESPN\u2019s NFL offerings and its upcoming stand-alone streaming service (02:42). Matt finishes the show with an opening weekend box office prediction for Freakier Friday and Weapons (27:06).<\/p>\n<p>For a 20 percent discount on Matt\u2019s Hollywood insider newsletter, What I\u2019m Hearing \u2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/join\/?subscribe__coupon=THETOWN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060click here\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060<\/a>.<br \/>Email us your thoughts! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/podcasts\/the-town-with-matthew-belloni\/2025\/08\/06\/mailto:thetown@spotify.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060thetown@spotify.com\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Host: Matt Belloni<br \/>Guest: Joe Pompliano<br \/>Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez<br \/>Theme Song: Devon Renaldo<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE SHOW in Los Angeles on August 27. \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060Click here for tickets!\u2060 Matt is joined by Huddle Up\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-49521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}