Broadcaster Lesley Visser and Los Angeles Times deputy sports editor Iliana Limón Romero

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Episode 206 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Lesley Visser, the sports broadcaster and commentator who this month will be the first woman to receive the Emmys' Sports Lifetime Achievement Award. She is followed by Iliana Limón Romero who this month became the first female sports editor in its history, and the only Latina sports editor at a major U.S. newspaper. In this podcast Visser discusses ice fishing with John Madden in Minneapolis and her relationship with Madden; being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award; her years at The Boston Globe as a writer; covering the fall of the Berlin Wall; working the Celtics-Lakers NBA Finals in 1984 and other memorable finals; coming up in an age prior to social media; not being allowed in clubhouses because of her gender; Al Michaels’ move to Amazon; if she misses sports television; her podcast with Sirius, and much more. Romero discusses what a sports editor at a major metro daily like the LA Times does daily; how you cover Los Angeles given its large spread; whether she thinks digital-first or print first; who she envisions as the LA Times reader; being the only Latina sports editor at a major U.S. newspaper; what it’s like covering the Lakers; the most press-friendly in L.A.; how you staff high school sports coverage; the interest in USC Football; how she looks at audio, 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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1:03.4	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. I really enjoyed doing this podcast. This was just really, really interesting for me. First up is Leslie Visser, the Hall of Fame sports broadcaster. If you're in, if you're listening to this podcast, the likely it is.
1:28.7	You know who Leslie Visser is.
1:30.4	She this month will become the first woman to receive the Emmy Sports Lifetime Achievement Award that's being given out at New York City's Lincoln Center.
1:41.1	Leslie Visser, essentially a career first.
1:44.1	First woman enshrine in the Pro Football Hall essentially a career first woman in shrine in the pro football
1:45.9	Hall of Fame, first woman to work the NBA finals in broadcasting, same with the World Series,
1:52.5	first woman assigned to the Super Bowl sideline. We had a great conversation, 50 minutes about
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