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Former head of ESPN John Skipper has produced an ambitious new project. Now he has to figure out how to get it in front of you: Sports
Explains the World is a series of films featuring well-known personalities (like Curt Schilling) and people you’ve never heard of (like a group of skater girls in Ethiopia). What it doesn’t have, yet, is a deal to get them on a TV screen near you — a condition that may or may not say a lot about the streaming industry in 2023. Skipper and executive producer Smriti Keshari recently sat down with Vox’s Peter
Kafka at the Tribeca Film Festival to talk about the work of figuring out what streamers want, why an a la carte ESPN would be a bad deal for consumers and why nothing will ever live up to The Last Dance.
Featuring: John Skipper (@johnskipper), Cofounder and CEO of Meadowlark Media
Smriti Keshari (@keshari), filmmaker and Executive Producer of Sports Explains the World
Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode
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