When Barstool Sports activities brings its model of sports activities speak to Fox Sports activities, it’ll “get to be Barstool,” Dan “Big Cat” Katz stated throughout Thursday’s “Barstool Yak” on Thursday.
Katz was discussing the brand new partnership between Fox Sports activities and Barstool that was introduced this week, combining the 2 family names in sports activities across the community’s school soccer programming and a brand new FS1 studio present.
The latter present, specifically, is the second go-around for Barstool in relation to working with a community on a linear program, and its first because the ill-fated “Van Talk” that lasted one episode in 2017 earlier than it was canceled by ESPN.
Katz expects that the brand new deal and studio present shall be a greater alternative than the ESPN partnership for “Van Talk” ended up being as a result of “the world’s changed.”
“[FS1] realizes, whenever Barstool Van Talk got canceled, 2017, look, [Pat] McAfee’s thriving,” he stated. “Shane Gillis just did the ESPYs last night. I think the world is changing, I think people understand entertainment is entertainment.”
“Van Talk” ended abruptly due partly to earlier feedback made by Katz and Barstool founder Dave Portnoy about then-ESPNer Sam Ponder, and former-ESPN president John Skipper later stated that the community wasn’t capable of distance itself from the Barstool model as a lot because it needed.
Katz feels the brand new Fox partnership will permit Barstool to stay true to what it does finest.
“I think it’s going to be a lot of our audience tuning in,” Katz stated. “And I think it’s going to be a lot different than the ESPN deal we did back in 2017, where I think Fox is a very willing partner that reached out to us, you know what I mean? So it feels different in that they want us, not we’re asking them, ‘Please, please put us on at 1 in the morning.”
Barstool and Fox Sports activities introduced the deal Thursday, and it’ll embody Portnoy changing into a daily contributor on “Massive Midday Kickoff. It is going to additionally characteristic appearances by numerous Barstool Sports activities personalities, together with Katz.
“The Barstool College Football Show” will even be on location with “Big Noon Kickoff” for choose video games throughout the season.
The each day studio present will air for 2 hours Monday by Friday
