Fox partnership will have different feel than ESPN…
When Barstool Sports brings its model of sports activities speak to Fox Sports, it will “get to be Barstool,” Dan “Big Cat” Katz stated during Thursday’s “Barstool Yak” on Thursday.
Katz was discussing the new partnership between Fox Sports and Barstool that was introduced this week, combining the 2 family names in sports activities around the community’s school soccer programming and a new FS1 studio show.
The latter show, in explicit, is the second go-around for Barstool when it comes to working with a community on a linear program, and its first since the ill-fated “Van Talk” that lasted one episode in 2017 before it was canceled by ESPN.
Katz expects that the new deal and studio show will be a higher alternative than the ESPN partnership for “Van Talk” ended up being because “the world’s changed.”
“[FS1] realizes, whenever Barstool Van Talk got canceled, 2017, look, [Pat] McAfee’s thriving,” he stated. “Shane Gillis just did the ESPYs last night. I think the world is changing, I think people understand entertainment is entertainment.”
NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney speaks with Barstool Sports Dan “Big Cat” Katz on set of “The Yak” at Barstool Sports Chicago on February 27, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Getty Images
“Van Talk” ended abruptly due in half to earlier feedback made by Katz and Barstool founder Dave Portnoy about then-ESPNer Sam Ponder, and former-ESPN president John Skipper later stated that the community wasn’t in a position to distance itself from the Barstool model as a lot as it wished.
Katz feels the new Fox partnership will enable Barstool to stay true to what it does best.
“I think it’s going to be a lot of our audience tuning in,” Katz stated. “And I think it’s 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’re asking them, ‘Please, please put us on at 1 in the morning.”
Dave Portnoy, sporting an Indiana Fever hat, poses for a picture while attending a WNBA recreation between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun on July 15, 2025, at TD Garden in Boston, MA. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Barstool and Fox Sports introduced the deal Thursday, and it will embrace Portnoy changing into a common contributor on “Big Noon Kickoff. It will also characteristic appearances by a quantity of Barstool Sports personalities, including Katz.
“The Barstool College Football Show” will also be on location with “Big Noon Kickoff” for choose video games during the season.
The every day studio show will air for two hours Monday through Friday
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