Boston Globe writer Chad Finn on Joe Buck and Troy Aikman’s Monday Night debut and the first broadcast week of the NFL season — and sports broadcaster-turned-agent Alex Flanagan

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Episode 240 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is a conversation with Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and Deitsch on the first week of NFL broadcasting. In this podcast, we offer our thoughts on Joe Buck and Troy Aikman’s ESPN regular-season debut; Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen’s first game as Fox’s top NFL team; Ian Eagle and Charles Davis; Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth, Greg Gumbel and Adam Archuleta and what we anticipate from Amazon’s first game. We also discuss Amazon viewership potential. That conversation is followed by Alex Flanagan, who is the senior vice president, partner, and agent for The Familie Sports Marketing and Talent Agency. Flanagan discusses her fascinating transition from working as a broadcaster for NBC, the NFL Network and ESPN to becoming a talent agent; how and why the transition happened; how she ended up joining The Familie agency; what her current job is; the challenge of building a talent base; representing Kimberley A. Martin, Britt Ghiroli and Sloane Martin among other clients; her personal experience with agents; what she hopes to do heading forward and 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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1:07.8	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
1:12.3	Two guests this week, two great conversations. First up, a conversation with one of our regulars, Boston Globe Sports Media writer and general columnist Chad Finn.
1:20.5	We offer all thoughts on the first week of NFL broadcasting from Buck and Akeman's ESPN debut.
1:26.1	Burkhart and Greg Olson's debut is Fox's top NFL team, a little bit of Iron Eagle, Charles Davis. Chad watched Greg Gumbull and Adam Archilletta. I'm not sure he particularly loved that broadcast. We get into certainly Amazon, big story this week coming up for us, what we can expect from their broadcast, what we can expect from their viewership.
1:48.0	Chad is followed by Alex Flanagan, who has made a fascinating transition from being a full-time broadcaster to the senior vice president and partner and agent for the family sports marketing and talent agency.
2:01.8	So she has morphed from a front-facing talent to a broadcast agent.
2:07.0	And in the podcast, she discusses her transition from working as a broadcaster for NBC,
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