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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN; Brad Nessler talks college football and his career

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

Sports, News, Sports News

4.5757 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Episode 431 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, the editor of Sports Media Watch and Brad Nessler, the lead game-caller for CBS’s Big Ten college football coverage. In this podcast Lewis discusses Adrian Wojnarowski's retirement from ESPN; what ESPN might do next; and the NFL viewership through Week 2. Nessler discusses calling USC-Michigan this Saturday at 3:30 PM ET on CBS; moving from the SEC on CBS to the Big Ten; whether there is a difference calling Big Ten games as opposed to the SEC; his preparation for USC-Michigan; the shift in coaches from the SEC to Big Ten; his time calling Monday Night Football; calling the first NBA game of LeBron James and the last NBA game for Michael Jordan, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dajemar, my producer, Patrick

0:13.0

Antonetti, two guests this week, two excellent ones. We start off right on the news with John Lewis,

0:17.7

the editor of the Essential Sports Media Watch.

0:21.4

And we get into Adrian Wojornowski's pretty stunning announcement

0:24.4

that he is walking away from ESPN and day-to-day NBA

0:28.4

to work as a general manager as alma mater for the St.

0:32.0

Bonaventure Basketball Program.

0:33.7

So we get into that.

0:35.4

Long discussion on that, good discussion on that. And then some NFL

0:38.4

viewership stuff and some WNBA viewership stuff. So nobody better to talk about the stuff than John

0:44.9

Lewis. He is followed by Brad Nestler, the lead game caller for CBS's Big Ten college football

0:51.3

coverage is Saturday he, Gary Danielson and Jenny Dell.

0:54.7

They have USC Michigan at 3.30 p.m. Eastern on CBS.

0:57.8

That is a big one for CBS.

1:00.1

And Brad Nestler has, I mean, he has really sort of called everything when it comes to his career.

1:05.7

Kind of a, not kind of a remarkable career from college football, which he's doing now to the NFL, college basketball.

1:13.0

He's done the Olympics, did Monday Night Football for a little bit. He's, again, really, really

1:20.8

just interesting career. We get into calling Big Ten games versus the SEC, his preparation for

1:27.4

USC Michigan and how he approaches

1:29.5

that, and then get a little bit into his, not a little bit, but get into his career.

1:34.7

Really fascinating.

1:35.5

He called LeBron James' first NBA game.

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