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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5044092, member: 405"]
I worked in the cable industry in the legal dept. of a Fortune 100 company, where I learned about programming contracts.  I interviewed for a licensing position with the NBA.

My law school buddy George McPhee shared lots information with me about sports league collective bargaining agreements, to try to help me break into sports representation.

I also worked as a consultant to IBM, when they were helping cable networks in Orlando, San Diego and a city in the midwest build the first broadband interactive networks.  I also helped IBM host the first global sports websites ('94 US Open, '96 Atlanta Olympics, where I did data mining to suggest story ideas to the press), and helped them introduce secure payment technology and encryption for the Internet.

This experience doesn't directly talk to cable, but I have very extensive experience at the intersection of technology, content businesses and broadband.

I won a national award from ASCAP about copyright law and licensing.
I worked for the guy who Syracuse's Bandier Music Business School is named after.
I worked on international distribution agreements in the music business.

I know about sports contracts and licensing.  In fact, I'll be speaking to a sports writing class at Newhouse next week about NIL, and content businesses like podcasts and blogs.

So, I don't work at ESPN, but I know a lot about the industry.
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