Big article with audio and video available. Haven't had a chance to read it all yet but found this interesting:


"Kafka: Are you set up, and is the Internet set up, for you guys to do a version of what you do on TV at scale on the Internet?

That would be very difficult to replicate right now with the amount of usage we get. Again, at ESPN we can deliver more content direct to consumer than almost anybody, and do it at scale. We get hundreds of thousands and millions of people who watch games on smartphones and tablets. So we can deliver a lot of content. To deliver the college football playoff with 25 million people watching would be very difficult for —

Kafka: And that’s on your end? That’s on the pipes, that’s everything.

That’s everything. That’s on the pipes. We can deliver it. I think it would be difficult, it would clog up the entire system."

**Kafka is the interviewer, Peter Kafka, not Franz



[Post edited by crabcake77 at 02/28/2016 10:28PM]