Bob Costas

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 98 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features the sports television journalist and host Bob Costas, who currently calls baseball and hosts specials for the MLB Network. In this podcast, Costas discusses his role in launching and developing the Concussion Legacy Foundation’s CLF Media Project, the first and only concussion reporting training designed specifically for sports media professionals; the importance of proper terminology for broadcasters when it comes to head trauma; whether there are limits to how far a rightsholder broadcaster can go when it comes to discussing head trauma prior or during a game; how he views his final years with NBC Sports; appearing in The Last Dance; the prospects of an Olympics in Tokyo in 2021; his view on whether we will see a Tokyo Olympics in 2021; the prospect of broadcasting baseball with no crowd and calling games either remotely or within a bubble; knowing one’s career arc, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:11.6	My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Sherry.
0:16.0	Today's guest does not really need much of an introduction for this audience.
0:20.9	Bob Costas is one of the iconic voices in the history of sports broadcasting.
0:27.5	He is currently a Major League Baseball Network, play-by-play announcer, as well as a host of specials for them.
0:35.4	Bob Costas, you know from from his work for multiple decades,
0:39.4	Emmy Award winning work on NBC. It was the host of the Olympics, I think 11 Olympics, if I'm
0:46.0	correct about that, was the host of Football Night in America and hosted Kentucky Derbys
0:53.3	and U.S. Opens and Ryder Cup coverage and the NBA during the Jordan era, again, one of the most well-known broadcasters of his generation or any generation.
1:02.6	And so he is the guest. He is here not only to talk about, and we had a pretty good conversation about just some things in his career and what he thinks about a lot of
1:12.4	stuff. But he was instrumental in launching and developing the Concussion Legacy Foundation's
1:17.9	Media Project, which is the first and only concussion reporting training designed specifically
1:22.4	for sports media professional. So Bob will talk about his connection with a concussion legacy foundation, and then we
1:30.7	will get into some other topics about broadcasters discussing, discussing concussions and head trauma
1:38.8	on air, whether one can still editorialize in a broadcast if you're a rights, hold of partner,
1:45.5	his prominence in the last dance, talked a little bit about the Tokyo Olympics, and then obviously
1:49.9	doing baseball, potentially doing baseball with no crowd.
1:52.6	So I think you're going to enjoy it.
1:53.9	Bob Costas is always an interesting guest, and he is the only guest on this podcast.
1:57.6	Coming up, Bob Costas on the Sports Media podcast.
2:04.5	Okay. podcast. Coming up, Bob Costas on the sports media podcast. All right, as I said at the top, Bob Costas is not really need much of an introduction
2:09.3	for the listeners here. He's one of the most iconic voices in the history of sports
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