John Skipper
American executive and former president of ESPNWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
Dan Le BatardHOST
I'm wildly grateful for all of the things ESPN did for me, but here's some of the backstory, okay? ESPN for a long time was my third job, and I didn't actually ever wanna go to full time at ESPN for a number of different reasons.
Dan Le BatardHOST
Uh, and not until John Skipper, looking for a Latino voice while underrepresented in that demo worse than just about any other, for 10 years was trying to hire me because in journalism I was the Latin guy, and there weren't a lot of other choices when it came to Latin guys.
Dan Le BatardHOST
And I was w- CAA's worst client for 10 years because I didn't wanna do it.
Dan Le BatardHOST
But then he's like, "What if your dad's on the show? What if your brother's doing the art? What if you have the beach behind you in Miami?" I wanted something more Miami, and so I'm like, "Okay, cool.
AlexHOST
Pretty much.
AlexHOST
In August 2013, Slive stood next to ESPN President John Skipper and announced a 20-year deal.
AlexHOST
They built a massive 25,000 square foot digital center in Charlotte, North Carolina, and prepared to take over the airwaves.
AlexHOST
The launch on August 14th, 2014 was a massive logistical feat.
Sage SteeleGUEST
It breaks my heart, to be honest with you, because it was just so unnecessary.
Sage SteeleGUEST
But it all depends on your leadership, right? And when the turn really began, the leader, the president of ESPN was a man by the name of John Skipper, who did a lot of good things, but he had a very unceremonial exit.
Sage SteeleGUEST
It was it was a big deal.
Sage SteeleGUEST
And he very much supports all those woke agendas.
David SamsonGUEST
Would you find it unreasonable for an entire package to go to Amazon, not Thursday, but Thursday, Sunday, Monday? I see a world where streaming packages take over.
David SamsonGUEST
John Skipper said on The Sporting Class, "There will be a Super Bowl on a streaming network in the next deal," and it's not even a question, it's a guarantee that a Super Bowl will appear on Netflix or Amazon or Apple going forward.
David SamsonGUEST
And that's just the life we're in right now.
Trysta KrickPANELIST
It may not be correlated, but the first thing I thought of, David, when you said that these leagues want to get younger, is how much money, uh, ESPN is now paying Joe Buck with this extension.
Dan Le BatardGUEST
I did, yes.
David SamsonHOST
Did we not have a conversation both on Sporting Class with John Skipper and also on your show and my show that we cannot figure out, because Skipper is an executive with ESPN, us as being paid to talk, that to value a play-by-play person or an analyst at these Tony Romo-like numbers has proven to be a fool's game over and over again.
David SamsonHOST
And yet, and I love Joe Buck, and I'm really happy for him, but how is it possible that ESPN continues to think that that is the way to compensate, by giving him an extension that turns out to be a nine-figure extension to keep going, not just as the Monday Night Football voice, but potentially as the voice of other sports? I was shocked by that announcement.
Dan Le BatardGUEST
Okay, so let's examine this from the only perspective that I have, which is that I worked at ESPN for a while, and my agent, a former defensive end, told me many years ago, uh, long before it happened, long before they pushed, uh, the journalists out of the building, "Hey, Dan, what ESPN is going to do with all of its money for its talent," because they've realized that SportsCenter is actually a repeatable thing, it can be anybody, that all of the programming is just infomercials to get you to when Joe Buck is talking, because that's all of the programming at ESPN.
Pops LeonardGUEST
Nikki Glaser.
Pops LeonardGUEST
I was just at the 9-11 show from Pete Davidson and John Skipper.
Pops LeonardGUEST
Oh, my God.
Pops LeonardGUEST
The people that they had, Aziz Ansari is so freaking funny.
Pat FinnHOST
It was a rainy game.
Pat FinnHOST
Boykin and Tyrod and... ryan williams had memorable afternoons that day and john skipper shout out maryland hokey club john skipper legend through an epic tailgate that day hope to see mr skipper out there on saturday
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
do you remember it being on espn 360 because if you're if if k finn is anything like big russ like any time a game was on a channel that required multiple syllables to get out like it was a problem for 45 minutes leading up to what freaking channel is this on can you get my laptop please uh check your phone check your phone
Pat FinnHOST
I don't even think we watched this game in real time because we didn't have ESPN 360 and it was showing up so grainy.
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Pat FinnHOST
And Kevin Anderson, who was their new AD at the time, made a strategic business decision to buy out the final year of his contract for $2 million.
Pat FinnHOST
They let him coach the bowl game, and then they cut ties with him after he crushed East Carolina in the 2010 Military Bowl.
Pat FinnHOST
Shout out Steve Beck and John Skipper.
Pat FinnHOST
They wanted to change the long-term direction of the program.
David SamsonHOST
Screw it.
David SamsonHOST
We'll just make Jon Skipper happy and play the Red Sox every single day." You remember when the big six tried to be part, or at least some of those teams, of a super league, and the fan base went Looney Tunes, and that was the end of that.
David SamsonHOST
Well, there is now a renewed fight that's going on with the Premier League, and it really gives us an interesting window into what is going on in Major League Baseball with their collective bargaining negotiations.
David SamsonHOST
You see, the Premier League and their big six clubs, according to Sam Wallace of the London Telegraph, are basically saying, "We don't want to share money with the rest of the people in the top table who stink, and the rest of the teams who never have a chance, and the rest of the teams who don't add enough money to the full pie that's then being socialized by being distributed to all the teams." Does that sound familiar to you in any way whatsoever? Because it should.
Chris StoneHOST
Absolutely.
Chris StoneHOST
And at the same time, all of this was happening, Nick, DAZN also made a huge statement by hiring former ESPN president John Skipper as their new executive chairman, giving them instant credibility.
Chris StoneHOST
Because I think, Nick, at the time, there still was a lot of doubts about the monetization models, the strategy behind streaming.
Chris StoneHOST
So to be able to get someone like John Skipper and his background from ESPN, you know, just gives you credibility that, hey, like they are working with people that have been in the industry.
Chris StoneHOST
And if he's pulling this, like there must be legs behind it.
Chris StoneHOST
So, Nick, not only that, with the strategy taking place, adding in John Skipper, they started to take more tier one rights.
Chris StoneHOST
So in Germany, they finally started to get some Bundesliga rights in addition to what Sky had.
Chris StoneHOST
They also managed to land the digital rights for Syria and Italy.
DocHOST
And then both of them ended up leaving ESPN and going separate ways.
DocHOST
Pablo with Dead Levitards, Metalark, the one that Metalark, which he set up with John Skipper, the former ESPN guy.
DocHOST
These aren't big media organizations, but because they're outsiders, they've got the ability to stand outside the tent and piss in rather than the other way around.
DocHOST
And as a result, they're not beholden to any other interests apart from, of course, their gambling sponsors, but they can successfully navigate around that, it would appear.
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