What can you say about the ESPN flagship streamer coming later this year?
We are thrilled to have ESPN streaming. That will launch in the fall, and that will be the place for fans to come to experience not only all 100% of all of their live sports and network coverage, but sports betting, sports fantasy, social sharing, clips, the best of talent and everything they’re doing, all in one place with personalization that they’ve never had before. Not only the massive sports fan, but the casual sports consumer, will have one place where they’ll find everything they want to watch from ESPN and ABC to consume, engage, share, and spend time. I am super excited about what that’s going to mean in terms of how we extend the sports brand partnerships with all of the customers we’re working with.
In addition, you have the Super Bowl coming in 2027. Have talks already started there?
We have over 67 multiyear deals that are mostly anchored in football, and so many of those are coming up now, and clients want to have the opportunity to tie in what they’re doing in that space to be a part of the Super Bowl. Those conversations have been happening for a while now.
It’s also an event that’s going to be happening in Los Angeles, which is our home. Our headquarters is in Los Angeles. We have a park in Los Angeles, so there are a lot of conversations around how the Walt Disney Company takes over and shows up for the Super Bowl in a way that will be representative of not only everything ESPN does and ABC does and all of our news and information shows do, but how does the Walt Disney Company show up through our station, KABC, in L.A., too? So we’re going to have a surround coverage that I think the Super Bowl has never experienced.
