{"id":13051,"date":"2025-07-21T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13051\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:53:12","slug":"special-league-meeting-could-happen-in-august-over-espn-nfl-media-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13051\/","title":{"rendered":"Special league meeting could happen in August over ESPN-NFL Media deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four times per year, the NFL\u2019s owners gather to address NFL business. Under certain circumstances, the owners will have a special, previously-unscheduled meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, it happens in connection with the approval of the purchase of a controlling interest in a team. Sports Business Journal recently reported that a special meeting could be happening in August, regarding a different kind of transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Per the report from Austin Karp and Ben Fischer, an \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AustinKarp\/status\/1945968057152598281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">informal heads up<\/a>\u201d has been provided about a potential meeting on the long-pending deal to sell all or most of NFL Media to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Based on past practice, the \u201cheads up\u201d is essentially a \u201csave the date\u201d exercise, letting everyone know when a meeting could happen. If it does happen.<\/p>\n<p>And \u201cif\u201d has been the most important word throughout the talks between the league and ESPN. Given that the NFL has always overvalued its in-house media operation, chances are the league wants more than it\u2019s objectively worth.<\/p>\n<p>The extra value also comes from the fact that the connection gives ESPN and Disney a leg up in the next wave of media-rights deals. With more network\/streaming asses than broadcast seats, someone could be SOL come 2030. It becomes a lot harder to freeze out ESPN\/ABC if the company separately runs NFL Media \u2014 and if the transaction includes making the NFL an equity partner in ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four times per year, the NFL\u2019s owners gather to address NFL business. Under certain circumstances, the owners will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}