10 cents per listener when you can’t even prove people heard the ads. Maybe if they’re crazy $2 million because people see the logo on the show banner which is considered an impression as well. So it depends on how many sign ups they’re getting but an app like that knows they can only generate sign ups for so long so it’s more a branding campaign, which is why they paid the upfront. They definitely have cost per acquisition aka CPA/performance built in so Barstool gets paid for every sign up for someone that uses the code barstool. If they’re even doing it on a CPM basis it’s probably at most $20 since they can’t prove how many people listen to the ads.Ĭash app likely did pay an annual upfront of maybe $1 million to sponsor the show. This would equate to a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) of $100 which is absolutely insane when at least half of the people skip the through the ads. I’m sorry but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Jake Marsh-35k(if he is even paid by barstool) PFT Commenter- 500k (got a new contract in June)īrandon Walker-38k(This was confirmed as his first contract, may have gotten a raise since)Ĭaleb Pressley-80k (back when he was doing tours, was given 50k confirmed, has likely gotten a raise) NOTE: THESE ARE ALL OPINIONS/EDUCATED GUESSES, EXCEPT FOR CONFIRMED SALARIES(which are marked as so) Big Cat lives across the street from JJ Redick, and PFT lives in the same building as Andy Cohen These are my thoughts, I would like to hear AWLs opinions on this.

Feits has been at the company since Milton, but doesn't hold equity, and said back in 2017 he made 75k + bonuses. A few employees have had their salries reported, specifically Fran, Ria, and Glenny all being confirmed in the 6 figures in 2017. I know that some people, like Big Cat, have Equity in the company. It’s intriguing that PFT was hoping that people could separate the TV show from Barstool Sports, but obviously the name of the show made that impossible (which is surely why PFT was against the name change from the start).I was wondering about Barstool Salaries. Yes, it sucked but it has nothing to do with what we produce.” But instead, they chose to go with just kind of a lazy, ignorant point of view about it and lump us in with something that somebody said three years ago in an out-of-bounds rant. They would think that we’re funny and it would be a really good thing to have on their air as a breath of fresh air. “To the two or three people at ESPN that fought so hard to keep us off the air,” PFT added, “if they had spent any period of time listening to Pardon My Take, reading the stuff that you and I write, knowing what we’re all about, they would probably agree with 99 percent of the shit that we say. Taking that into consideration, ESPN never should have put Van Talk on the air to begin with. Katz added that he wishes the network had “stood tall” against that blowback because not doing so immediately put the show in a precarious position.

In his view, other people at ESPN had the same agenda and he’ll “never forgive” them for that.

Though Big Cat acknowledged what was said was wrong, he also felt the timing of Ponder’s tweets was intended to undermine Barstool Van Talk and get the show canceled. Pardon My Take 10-25 – we get real for a second about our cancelled TV show + an interview with Dan Patrick in Vanny Woodhead. Katz also mentioned that neither he nor Barstool could directly respond to the controversy because Van Talk was already “on thin ice,” and they didn’t want to jeopardize the show. Big Cat apologized for his role in that discussion and the insult directed at Ponder, saying it was stupid to say such a thing but the overall show in question was what Barstool Sports does. (Awful Announcing had heard that the show was originally intended to run until the Super Bowl.)Īs the PMT hosts feared, attaching the Barstool brand to the ESPN show stirred up controversy - notably from Sam Ponder, who brought up offensive remarks that had been said about her in the past. But Barstool Sports’ founder Dave Portnoy wanted “Barstool” in the title and Big Cat agreed because the intention was just to attract more people to their site, even if that caused some problems.īig Cat then followed up by revealing that Barstool Van Talk was supposed to have a 20-week run on ESPN2, going through late February. As a potential air date neared, a name change for the show was suggested, which PFT says he was against from a branding standpoint. PFT then explained that it was an eight-month conversation between ESPN and Barstool Sports (specifically CEO Erika Nardini) to develop a Pardon My Take show for the network.

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