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Podcast: The California Sports Lawyer Podcast with Jeremy Evans
Episode: The Rise of the Franchise Sports Studio
Description: This week on the California Sports Lawyer Podcast, host Jeremy Evans breaks down the rise of the "franchise sports studio" — how leagues, teams, and media partners are quietly rebuilding sports to look a lot more like Hollywood. Using the new UFC–Paramount deal as a roadmap, Jeremy explores how live games and fights are becoming the tentpole "blockbusters", surrounded by year-round universes of shoulder programming, docuseries, origin stories, rivalries, and archival content that keep fans locked in between events.
We unpack how this shift is reshaping dealmaking: rights packages moving from "games only" to "games plus universe," athl...