September 6, 2024 • 13 mins
The Mavericks got a new TV deal, but what does it all mean?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's the Bending Skin Show ninety seven point
one the Eagle, and we are here at Pluckers in Addison.
Oh they're off belt Line love when we're kicking it
at Pluckers where they have the.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Most delicious swing. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Now we've been doing this giveaway of the Rob Zombie
Alice Cooper Show September the eighteenth at Dicky's and Fort Worth.
We've been giving away a chance to win sweet tickets.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And then one lucky winner is actually going to get
to meet Rob Zombie and you know, if you play
your cards right, maybe even pitch him a business deal.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But we're gonna go ahead and do that right now.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You got to use the talkback feature on your iHeart app,
click on the microphone, leave your name, your phone number,
your email address, and the first person that can tell
us what procedure has been gonna have on Monday at noon.
If you're listening earlier, you know, tell us that, and
then you'll be the last winner of this really cool
thing we've been doing all week. Everyone's excited about Rob
(00:55):
Zombie and Alice Cooper got to get to the cowboys
coming up here in thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Is Dak gonna sign by the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
There's a lot of different opinions on all of that,
but right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And now it's time for Basis week Day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Did you guys order some news coming right up? You know,
I like it.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Keep trying to make something a thing and then you'll see.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Christina. Mavericks have a new local TV partner.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
They announced today a multi multi or multi.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Is it Hibiscus or high biscus your.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Deal with Tegna, which sounds like a very cool.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Eighties video game arc head game Tegna.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
She just played Tegna as a kid. Ben I played
Techno Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Uh, fifteen games on WFA eight. At least fifteen games,
and then the other games which are not on national
TV like your other games of the regular season. Oh yeah,
at least seventy of them will be seen on KMPX.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Channel twenty nine, my channel. And this is cool.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The Mavericker's saying, this makes games available to ten million
people in Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That would be triple the amount of viewers across Ballely
last year.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
All I can tell you is that for those whatever
it was eight games, I can't remember the exact number
that we did what they call over the air on WFAA,
the viewership tripled.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now, what you know, as a game is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'll have interaction with people on X or Twitter or
whatever you want to call it Elon's propaganda machine. But
that kind of went away the last couple of years.
There just wasn't that much interaction during games. There was
a little bit, and then those games threw up on WFAA.
I was suddenly getting tweets and there was new people,
and I was like, I mean, it was noticeable because
(03:06):
it was just so hard for people to get the
games on BALI and then there's so many wars going
on with the cable providers and ballied. So Kat, I
know you were a consumer of the Bally app and
I heard you complain about that quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So yeah, it was a bad experience for sports fans
to deal with BALI.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So it's it's fifteen games on WFA and there are
those going to be the main games? I think that
you know they're going to release more of a media
schedule later. But I think those fifteen games actually include
the exclusives that are on ABC. So whenever whenever ABC
does a game, there is no local broadcast, okay. And
(03:45):
so the Mavericks, because they're in the finals and they
have Luke and Kyrie, they get more national games. So
I think the seventy that KT is talking about is
minus the twelve exclusive games. T and T gets like
five or six exclusives, ESPN has a couple, and then
ABC has five. But since Tegna's WFAA, they get to
(04:08):
carry those ABC games as well.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And so Channel twenty nine it exists right now, it's Spanish,
and it's gonna flip and become this whole new thing.
There's not a lot of like concrete information about what
is happening there, but in the press release, and then
there's also like a Q and A on the MAVs website,
like a frequently asked questions, they're talking about this concept
of a rebranding of Channel twenty nine and then the
(04:34):
Spanish language programming that's on twenty nine will get put
on another Tegna's like a media company that owns a
bunch of stations. So when he's talking about ten million people,
it's gonna be like, you know, hey, here's the TECHNA
station of Waco, and here's the you know, so the
broadcast is going to get on more affiliates than when
Bally was doing it. And I know, you know, so
(04:54):
much has changed just in media in general, but especially
in television since I last worked in televi But you know,
back in the day, I worked at k Star forty nine,
which had the Mavericks for like a year or two.
Similar thing you know before went down the rabbit hole.
It that it went down. But nowadays do are they
talking about people just getting Channel twenty nine over there antenna?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Or so that not even through direct TV or anything. Now,
if you have YouTube or Hulu, it's very likely that
you have Channel twenty nine and didn't even know it. Okay, Now,
if you have AT and tu Verse or direct TV,
you already have it on your menu unless you're watching
Spanish leg which program you've probably never stopped there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
But it is on those menus.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And then some of the menus like the AT and
t U Verse direct TV, it goes in numerical order, right,
so you know, everything is Hulu, and some of those
things are different, and so I think what the idea
was is that it'll be a lot more visible and
easy for people to find now that Teco is going
to make, the changes are going to make with that station.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The U the thing that's gonna be interesting because everyone's
kind of now divided on how they take it in
with they have cable, you know, like the things you mentioned.
The one you did not mention was YouTube TV, which
I just googled. I just typed in KMPX channel twenty
nine and the first thing that popped up was is
KMPX twenty nine on YouTube TV? Yeah, people are already asking,
people already asking, but I think YouTube, man, I don't know.
(06:24):
I'm sitting there going, well, I don't have the MAVs
right now still even with this announcement. But it depends, So.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It depends if YouTube TV gets it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, I had so I got I have cable, so
I didn't need Hulu necessarily. I think my son used
Hulu for something I can't remember what, and then I
was like, all right, I want to watch these fex shows.
But the last time there was a dispute between my
cable provider, and I believe it was the parent company
that owned FAA. I was having issues and I couldn't
(06:52):
get Channel eight programming, I mean just Channel eight period.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So during that time period I got Hulu.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Because you can go on Hulu and you can find
your local channels real easily. Yeah. So I think it
depends on what package you have with Hulu or have
with YouTube. I would be very surprised if YouTube does
not make I mean, it's basically just like throwing. If
they have any deals with Tegna already, it's super easy
for them to throw another techno.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Stay yeah, Sam, Channel eight, Yeah, I thok the other channels.
It's like their CW thirty three. There's Channel twenty nine,
those other channels. So that's still interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's exciting to me though, if it's a whole If
it's a whole new channel, then to me, it's ripe
with possibilities, right, I want to go pitch ideas for shows.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, immediately, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know frog Man, Frogman, the guy that goes around
and finds frogs, say hey man.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Man, what's up? There'sah frogs? What happened all the frogs?
Might be our chance at shark butt too.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yes, I want to film all these pitch meetings that
might be better than the show.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Or that might be the new show.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But yeah, there's gonna be uh that station will be rebranded,
and there's it's just going to be easier for people
to see the games. Now one of the other really
fascinating developments. And I have not had the opportunity to
read the article yet. I'd hoped to do it before
we hit the air, But our buddy Mike Polluci over
at d Magazine is comparing and contrasting what is happening
(08:16):
with the Stars and what is happening with the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, the Stars have developed there what is it called Victory.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Plus Victory Plus which Nelly is playing their big exclusive
party to launch Oh Nelly the Dallas Mavericks coach, No
the rapper.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So that means they're creating their own entertainment app and
they're going to produce all their own content themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, And one of the things that you know, however
true it is or isn't, I had heard rumors that
they've already pitched the Rangers to join them, and the
Rangers are like, we don't need to make a decision
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We'll see how this plays out.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So basically, Victory Plus gets to show the Metroplex how
their app functions.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And I don't know all the mechanisms, but they partnered.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Is it called Cadoodle I think is the name of
this productions something like that thing, and they do They're
going to be doing stuff with Mister Beast and do
Perfect and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So we're gonna get to see.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
How Victory Plus operates, which I think for someone like
KT is probably doing a big groan because of how
much dissatisfaction you had with the Bally app.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, but this is free.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
The thing is you're paying for Bally and you still
like you're getting a point where you're fighting to see
the game. Right that became and it was just different
watching the Mavericks and Stars is separated from the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, and you're like.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, this used to be like this and it should
be easy and so and I think also like people
will go, well, is there a streaming option for the
MAVs And the answer to that is going to be yeah,
by the NBA League Pass. But there's also issues with
games being blacked out right, But if you lived here,
and you can just get a digital antenna if you want.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Even if you don't have.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Cable or Hulu or whatever, you can get a digital antenna,
hook it up and get mav games. And so my
point is is that if you're in Dallas proper or
the DFW, you don't care if your games are getting
blacked out because they're over the air.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And then if you had NBA.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
League Pass and you were in Cleveland or wherever, you
could watch any game.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
As it is, both the MAVs i mean sent the
MAVs pressure or press release of the story in Dallas.
Won he news like, we're taking a financial hit right now,
but it'll pass in the long run. Yeah, very similar
to the language the Stars said to We're taking a
financial hit right now, but in the long.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Run, we think it'll pay off.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And and Ray Davis and the Rangers are saying, we
don't have to make a decision right now because no
matter what, we can't take a financial hit.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, that's panic.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But but there comes this whole idea too, Ben, And
this is the world that you were referencing that you
were so ensconsin, is all right, what is happening with
the money, How is it being generated? Is the are
the Techno people, because it's said in the press release,
I believe that Techna handles the advertising sales and all
that stuff. And then obviously they can do partnerships with
the MAVs and all that.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And then how does Victory Plus function within all of that?
If there's not going to be regional sports networks like
we were accustomed to, going back to when Ben and
I were in high school and Hsese with Norm Hitzkiss
was on, if that's not going to exist anymore, how
does it operate or as each team in Ireland? Or
(11:19):
do these teams all come together and go, yes, let's
do Victory Plus. And Victory Plus will have the Mavericks
and the Rangers and the Stars and so tegna. Are
they they covering the production of the games? Well for
the ones they have? Is that how that works? I
don't know the answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I know that for Victory Plus, I know a lot
of people that worked at Balley went to work over there, Okay.
And then there's also these independent operators that I'm blanking
to the name. We were talking about them recently that
they put on all those college games. I can't remember
the operation down there in Houston.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I'm blanking on their name game. But there's there's.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
A lot of you know people, the independent production companies
that can put on games. So if Theicks don't end
up creating their own production entity, they can you know,
do deals with these operations.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So it's a brave new world.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
People are out there blazing trails on the new frontier,
and everyone's basically keeping their options open while they learn. Yeah,
I mean yes, and it says multi year deal with Tegna.
But you know, I'm not privy to any of that,
but I wouldn't be surprised if the Mavericks have options
on that deal. Maybe Tegna has options on that deal.
(12:29):
I don't know, But you know, to Ben's point, this
is all so new, and you have quotes from higher
ups with the Mavericks talking about how it's going to
be monetized. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if they
ended up having an option.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
To get out of this deal if they need to.
But you know, I'm totally speculating on that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Good news, good news. It's exciting. All right, go mamorates.
All right, coming up next let's the Dak watches on
his Dak about to sign a deal?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Are they actually going to start the season without a
new deal for their quarterback. We will preview Cowboys Browns
next
All right, it's the Bending Skin Show ninety seven point
one the Eagle, and we are here at Pluckers in Addison.
Oh they're off belt Line love when we're kicking it
at Pluckers where they have the.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Most delicious swing. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Now we've been doing this giveaway of the Rob Zombie
Alice Cooper Show September the eighteenth at Dicky's and Fort Worth.
We've been giving away a chance to win sweet tickets.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And then one lucky winner is actually going to get
to meet Rob Zombie and you know, if you play
your cards right, maybe even pitch him a business deal.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But we're gonna go ahead and do that right now.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You got to use the talkback feature on your iHeart app,
click on the microphone, leave your name, your phone number,
your email address, and the first person that can tell
us what procedure has been gonna have on Monday at noon.
If you're listening earlier, you know, tell us that, and
then you'll be the last winner of this really cool
thing we've been doing all week. Everyone's excited about Rob
(00:55):
Zombie and Alice Cooper got to get to the cowboys
coming up here in thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Is Dak gonna sign by the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
There's a lot of different opinions on all of that,
but right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And now it's time for Basis week Day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Did you guys order some news coming right up? You know,
I like it.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Keep trying to make something a thing and then you'll see.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Christina. Mavericks have a new local TV partner.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
They announced today a multi multi or multi.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Is it Hibiscus or high biscus your.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Deal with Tegna, which sounds like a very cool.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Eighties video game arc head game Tegna.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
She just played Tegna as a kid. Ben I played
Techno Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Uh, fifteen games on WFA eight. At least fifteen games,
and then the other games which are not on national
TV like your other games of the regular season. Oh yeah,
at least seventy of them will be seen on KMPX.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Channel twenty nine, my channel. And this is cool.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
The Mavericker's saying, this makes games available to ten million
people in Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That would be triple the amount of viewers across Ballely
last year.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
All I can tell you is that for those whatever
it was eight games, I can't remember the exact number
that we did what they call over the air on WFAA,
the viewership tripled.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now, what you know, as a game is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'll have interaction with people on X or Twitter or
whatever you want to call it Elon's propaganda machine. But
that kind of went away the last couple of years.
There just wasn't that much interaction during games. There was
a little bit, and then those games threw up on WFAA.
I was suddenly getting tweets and there was new people,
and I was like, I mean, it was noticeable because
(03:06):
it was just so hard for people to get the
games on BALI and then there's so many wars going
on with the cable providers and ballied. So Kat, I
know you were a consumer of the Bally app and
I heard you complain about that quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So yeah, it was a bad experience for sports fans
to deal with BALI.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So it's it's fifteen games on WFA and there are
those going to be the main games? I think that
you know they're going to release more of a media
schedule later. But I think those fifteen games actually include
the exclusives that are on ABC. So whenever whenever ABC
does a game, there is no local broadcast, okay. And
(03:45):
so the Mavericks, because they're in the finals and they
have Luke and Kyrie, they get more national games. So
I think the seventy that KT is talking about is
minus the twelve exclusive games. T and T gets like
five or six exclusives, ESPN has a couple, and then
ABC has five. But since Tegna's WFAA, they get to
(04:08):
carry those ABC games as well.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And so Channel twenty nine it exists right now, it's Spanish,
and it's gonna flip and become this whole new thing.
There's not a lot of like concrete information about what
is happening there, but in the press release, and then
there's also like a Q and A on the MAVs website,
like a frequently asked questions, they're talking about this concept
of a rebranding of Channel twenty nine and then the
(04:34):
Spanish language programming that's on twenty nine will get put
on another Tegna's like a media company that owns a
bunch of stations. So when he's talking about ten million people,
it's gonna be like, you know, hey, here's the TECHNA
station of Waco, and here's the you know, so the
broadcast is going to get on more affiliates than when
Bally was doing it. And I know, you know, so
(04:54):
much has changed just in media in general, but especially
in television since I last worked in televi But you know,
back in the day, I worked at k Star forty nine,
which had the Mavericks for like a year or two.
Similar thing you know before went down the rabbit hole.
It that it went down. But nowadays do are they
talking about people just getting Channel twenty nine over there antenna?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Or so that not even through direct TV or anything. Now,
if you have YouTube or Hulu, it's very likely that
you have Channel twenty nine and didn't even know it. Okay, Now,
if you have AT and tu Verse or direct TV,
you already have it on your menu unless you're watching
Spanish leg which program you've probably never stopped there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
But it is on those menus.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And then some of the menus like the AT and
t U Verse direct TV, it goes in numerical order, right,
so you know, everything is Hulu, and some of those
things are different, and so I think what the idea
was is that it'll be a lot more visible and
easy for people to find now that Teco is going
to make, the changes are going to make with that station.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The U the thing that's gonna be interesting because everyone's
kind of now divided on how they take it in
with they have cable, you know, like the things you mentioned.
The one you did not mention was YouTube TV, which
I just googled. I just typed in KMPX channel twenty
nine and the first thing that popped up was is
KMPX twenty nine on YouTube TV? Yeah, people are already asking,
people already asking, but I think YouTube, man, I don't know.
(06:24):
I'm sitting there going, well, I don't have the MAVs
right now still even with this announcement. But it depends, So.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It depends if YouTube TV gets it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, I had so I got I have cable, so
I didn't need Hulu necessarily. I think my son used
Hulu for something I can't remember what, and then I
was like, all right, I want to watch these fex shows.
But the last time there was a dispute between my
cable provider, and I believe it was the parent company
that owned FAA. I was having issues and I couldn't
(06:52):
get Channel eight programming, I mean just Channel eight period.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So during that time period I got Hulu.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Because you can go on Hulu and you can find
your local channels real easily. Yeah. So I think it
depends on what package you have with Hulu or have
with YouTube. I would be very surprised if YouTube does
not make I mean, it's basically just like throwing. If
they have any deals with Tegna already, it's super easy
for them to throw another techno.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Stay yeah, Sam, Channel eight, Yeah, I thok the other channels.
It's like their CW thirty three. There's Channel twenty nine,
those other channels. So that's still interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's exciting to me though, if it's a whole If
it's a whole new channel, then to me, it's ripe
with possibilities, right, I want to go pitch ideas for shows.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, immediately, Like.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know frog Man, Frogman, the guy that goes around
and finds frogs, say hey man.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Man, what's up? There'sah frogs? What happened all the frogs?
Might be our chance at shark butt too.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yes, I want to film all these pitch meetings that
might be better than the show.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Or that might be the new show.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But yeah, there's gonna be uh that station will be rebranded,
and there's it's just going to be easier for people
to see the games. Now one of the other really
fascinating developments. And I have not had the opportunity to
read the article yet. I'd hoped to do it before
we hit the air, But our buddy Mike Polluci over
at d Magazine is comparing and contrasting what is happening
(08:16):
with the Stars and what is happening with the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, the Stars have developed there what is it called Victory.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Plus Victory Plus which Nelly is playing their big exclusive
party to launch Oh Nelly the Dallas Mavericks coach, No
the rapper.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So that means they're creating their own entertainment app and
they're going to produce all their own content themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yes, And one of the things that you know, however
true it is or isn't, I had heard rumors that
they've already pitched the Rangers to join them, and the
Rangers are like, we don't need to make a decision
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We'll see how this plays out.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So basically, Victory Plus gets to show the Metroplex how
their app functions.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And I don't know all the mechanisms, but they partnered.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Is it called Cadoodle I think is the name of
this productions something like that thing, and they do They're
going to be doing stuff with Mister Beast and do
Perfect and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So we're gonna get to see.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
How Victory Plus operates, which I think for someone like
KT is probably doing a big groan because of how
much dissatisfaction you had with the Bally app.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, but this is free.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
The thing is you're paying for Bally and you still
like you're getting a point where you're fighting to see
the game. Right that became and it was just different
watching the Mavericks and Stars is separated from the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, and you're like.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, this used to be like this and it should
be easy and so and I think also like people
will go, well, is there a streaming option for the
MAVs And the answer to that is going to be yeah,
by the NBA League Pass. But there's also issues with
games being blacked out right, But if you lived here,
and you can just get a digital antenna if you want.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Even if you don't have.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Cable or Hulu or whatever, you can get a digital antenna,
hook it up and get mav games. And so my
point is is that if you're in Dallas proper or
the DFW, you don't care if your games are getting
blacked out because they're over the air.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And then if you had NBA.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
League Pass and you were in Cleveland or wherever, you
could watch any game.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
As it is, both the MAVs i mean sent the
MAVs pressure or press release of the story in Dallas.
Won he news like, we're taking a financial hit right now,
but it'll pass in the long run. Yeah, very similar
to the language the Stars said to We're taking a
financial hit right now, but in the long.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Run, we think it'll pay off.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And and Ray Davis and the Rangers are saying, we
don't have to make a decision right now because no
matter what, we can't take a financial hit.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, that's panic.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But but there comes this whole idea too, Ben, And
this is the world that you were referencing that you
were so ensconsin, is all right, what is happening with
the money, How is it being generated? Is the are
the Techno people, because it's said in the press release,
I believe that Techna handles the advertising sales and all
that stuff. And then obviously they can do partnerships with
the MAVs and all that.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And then how does Victory Plus function within all of that?
If there's not going to be regional sports networks like
we were accustomed to, going back to when Ben and
I were in high school and Hsese with Norm Hitzkiss
was on, if that's not going to exist anymore, how
does it operate or as each team in Ireland? Or
(11:19):
do these teams all come together and go, yes, let's
do Victory Plus. And Victory Plus will have the Mavericks
and the Rangers and the Stars and so tegna. Are
they they covering the production of the games? Well for
the ones they have? Is that how that works? I
don't know the answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I know that for Victory Plus, I know a lot
of people that worked at Balley went to work over there, Okay.
And then there's also these independent operators that I'm blanking
to the name. We were talking about them recently that
they put on all those college games. I can't remember
the operation down there in Houston.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I'm blanking on their name game. But there's there's.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
A lot of you know people, the independent production companies
that can put on games. So if Theicks don't end
up creating their own production entity, they can you know,
do deals with these operations.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
So it's a brave new world.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
People are out there blazing trails on the new frontier,
and everyone's basically keeping their options open while they learn. Yeah,
I mean yes, and it says multi year deal with Tegna.
But you know, I'm not privy to any of that,
but I wouldn't be surprised if the Mavericks have options
on that deal. Maybe Tegna has options on that deal.
(12:29):
I don't know, But you know, to Ben's point, this
is all so new, and you have quotes from higher
ups with the Mavericks talking about how it's going to
be monetized. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if they
ended up having an option.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
To get out of this deal if they need to.
But you know, I'm totally speculating on that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Good news, good news. It's exciting. All right, go mamorates.
All right, coming up next let's the Dak watches on
his Dak about to sign a deal?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Are they actually going to start the season without a
new deal for their quarterback. We will preview Cowboys Browns
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