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John Ourand

John Ourand

John Ourand has covered all things media for Sports Business Journal since 2006. Before then, he spent 12 years reporting on the media industry in the U.S. and Europe, reporting for International Cable magazine and serving as editor for such outlets as Cable World and CableFAX Daily. His journalism career started in 1990 as a reporter for a Washington Post-owned weekly newspaper based in Montgomery County, Md.

Alex Flanagan joins The Montag Group

Sandy Montag hired Alex Flanagan to be a senior talent agent in The Montag Group, starting later this week. What makes this move so interesting is that Flanagan had been a former on-air broadcaster with Fox Sports, ESPN, NFL Network and NBC, and it’s not every day you see...

Why are Amazon’s NFL numbers so big?

Josh Allen and the Bills beat Baker Mayfield and the Bucs last week on Prime Video's “Thursday Night Football.” It ended up being a one-score game, but it lacked the star power of the previous year’s Week 8 game when Lamar Jackson’s Ravens beat Tom Brady’s Bucs in another...

Rich Paul talks NBA media rights

It was interesting to listen to Klutch Sports Group founder and CEO Rich Paul give his perspective of the NBA’s media negotiations during an appearance on Matt Belloni’s podcast . Paul hit on some common themes -- such as the fragmentation of the league’s audience and the...

ESPN’s business looks healthy

My main takeaway from last week’s release of ESPN’s financials -- for the first time -- is that the business still is healthy. How else would you describe a business that generated $16 billion in revenue and $2.9 billion in operating profit for FY 2022? In...