Broadcaster Noah Eagle on calling the Nickelodeon NFL game and Ryan S. Clark of The Athletic of the NHL

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Episode 127 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is Noah Eagle, who called Nickelodeon’s first-ever NFL broadcast and is also the radio voice of the L.A. Clippers. He is followed by Ryan S. Clark, who covers the NHL and Seattle Kraken for The Athletic. In this podcast, Eagle discusses the Nickelodeon NFL broadcast; what made the broadcast unique and the planning for it; how he got the assignment; navigating having a well-known father in the sports media business; how he feels about criticism of being gifted jobs; calling the Clippers; being interviewed by Steve Ballmer, and more. Clark discusses covering a team that exists but does not yet play on the ice; what kind of Kraken stories he does today; the interest in the NHL in Seattle; the most interesting stories in the NHL right now; how COVID has impacted coverage; what NHL teams have said about media coverage heading forward; how Clark evaluates diversity and gender among those covering the game; whether those numbers will get better; how the numbers of people in color covering the NHL can get better, 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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0:54.4	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Anthony and Sean Cherry. Two guests this week. First up, Noah Eagle, we called Nickelodeon's first ever NFL broadcast and is also the radio voice of the Los Angeles Clippers.
1:00.4	And we get into the Nickelodeon broadcast and what it was like to be part of that, how he prepared.
1:04.4	And then some Clippers talk, including how he got the job.
1:09.7	And Noah's very honest as well about being the son of Iron Eagle and what that means and having people be critical of you
1:11.7	thinking that you're getting jobs because of your last name. He's followed by Ryan S. Clark,
1:16.9	my colleague at the Athletic. He covers the NHL nationally as well as the Seattle Cracken for the
1:23.8	athletic. That's going to be an awesome beat because Seattle's going to be an amazing hockey city. And in addition to Ryan talking about the biggest stories of the year in the
1:32.2	NHL and how COVID has sort of impacted coverage for him, both nationally and locally.
1:38.8	Ryan talks about the diversity in NHL and how many people of color are covering the sport. Those
1:46.2	numbers are not very good. Ryan talks about gender as well. Ryan told me on the podcast that
1:51.4	he believes he is at the moment the only national writer covering the NHL who's black. I mean,
2:00.6	just think about that.
2:02.8	That's just crazy to think about,
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