Fox agreed to let Joe Buck out of his deal one year early to depart to ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” alongside his close friend Troy Aikman. It got something in return.
, Fox agreed to let Joe Buck out of his deal one year early to depart to ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” alongside his close friend Troy Aikman. Buck’s wife, Michelle Beisner-Buck, was also already on ESPN’s NFL coverage.what ESPN sent back in the swap: the Sept. 1 Penn State-Purdue college football game. Fox stands to make “millions” in extra ad sales from having this game, while ESPN already has a West Virginia-Pittsburgh game they can use in that Thursday evening window.
Trades are uncommon but not unprecedented involving sports media talents. In 2006, Disney’s ABC/ESPN let Al Michaels out of a contract to go to NBC with John Madden, and in return theyFox traded Joe Buck to ESPN for a Big Ten football game.. However, the negotiations fell through at the eleventh hour when Fox also wanted Marty Smith included in the deal, and ESPN walked away from the table.
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