{"id":72473,"date":"2025-07-18T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72473\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:10:15","slug":"fox-partnership-will-have-different-feel-than-espn-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72473\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox partnership will have different feel than ESPN show"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Barstool Sports brings its brand of sports talk to Fox Sports<\/a>, it will \u201cget to be Barstool,\u201d Dan \u201cBig Cat\u201d Katz said during Thursday\u2019s \u201cBarstool Yak\u201d on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Katz was discussing the new partnership between Fox Sports and Barstool that was announced this week, combining the two household names in sports around the network\u2019s college football programming and a new FS1 studio show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latter show, in particular, is the second go-around for Barstool when it comes to working with a network on a linear program, and its first since the ill-fated \u201cVan Talk\u201d that lasted one episode in 2017 before it was canceled by ESPN.<\/p>\n

Katz expects that the new deal and studio show will be a better opportunity than the ESPN partnership for \u201cVan Talk\u201d ended up being because \u201cthe world\u2019s changed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[FS1] realizes, whenever Barstool Van Talk got canceled, 2017, look, [Pat] McAfee\u2019s thriving,\u201d he said. \u201cShane Gillis just did the ESPYs<\/a> last night. I think the world is changing, I think people understand entertainment is entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NASCARNASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney speaks with Barstool Sports Dan \u201cBig Cat\u201d Katz on set of \u201cThe Yak\u201d at Barstool Sports Chicago on February 27, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cVan Talk\u201d ended abruptly due in part to previous comments made by Katz and Barstool founder Dave Portnoy about then-ESPNer Sam Ponder<\/a>, and former-ESPN president John Skipper later said that the network wasn\u2019t able to distance itself from the Barstool brand as much as it wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Katz feels the new Fox partnership will allow Barstool to remain true to what it does best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a lot of our audience tuning in,\u201d Katz said. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s going to be a lot different than the ESPN deal we did back in 2017, where I think Fox is a very willing partner that reached out to us, you know what I mean? So it feels different in that they want us, not we\u2019re asking them, \u2018Please, please put us on at 1 in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DaveDave Portnoy, wearing an Indiana Fever hat, poses for a photo while attending a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun on July 15, 2025, at TD Garden in Boston, MA. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Barstool and Fox Sports announced the deal Thursday, and it will include Portnoy becoming a regular contributor on \u201cBig Noon Kickoff. It will also feature appearances by a number of Barstool Sports personalities, including Katz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Barstool College Football Show\u201d will also be on location with \u201cBig Noon Kickoff\u201d for select games during the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The daily studio show will air for two hours Monday through Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Barstool Sports brings its brand of sports talk to Fox Sports, it will \u201cget to be Barstool,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[50703,171,41318,62,1486,3581,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-72473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-barstool-sports","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox-sports","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-entertainment","13":"tag-sports-media","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114873933808413268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}