Chad Finn on whether the Olympics will be a viewership hit or miss and ESPN’s Manning Megacast and Melanie Newman on her journey calling MLB games

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Episode 152 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Chad Finn, the sports media writer and columnist for the Boston Globe. He is followed by Melanie Newman, a broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles and MASN and the play by play voice for the first game in Major League Baseball history featuring an all-female announcing crew (She called the game alongside analyst Sarah Langs, reporter Alanna Rizzo and pre- and postgame hosts Lauren Gardner and Heidi Watney.) In this podcast, Finn discusses the interest in the Olympics as a television experience; whether NBC will get the viewership it has received in previous Olympics; how NBC will navigate the news elements of the Olympics with the competition; ESPN’s hiring of Peyton and Eli Manning for a Monday Night Football Megacast; the NHL’s television schedule on ESPN and Turner Sports; Cleveland changing its MLB name to the Guardians and more. Newman discusses her journey to do doing MLB play by play and the minor league stops along the way; the women who are following her currently calling minor league baseball; representation in sports broadcasting; whether her all-female group will call another game; the prospects of the O’s heading forward in the A.L. East 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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0:00.0	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
0:06.3	As good as it gets!
0:07.6	And you can stream every moment live on Sky Sports.
0:11.3	Well, it's just wonderful.
0:12.6	Available without a contract with Now.
0:15.7	Absolutely brilliant.
0:17.6	Stream Manchester City versus Liverpool this Sunday from 4 p.m.
0:21.7	Head to NowTV.com 18-plus Sky Sports content stream via internet.
0:27.5	Full terms apply.
0:57.6	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deitch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. Two interesting conversations. First up, Chad Finn, the sports media writer and columnist for the Boston Globe. And we go through a number of sports media topics, including the Olympics, how many people we think will watch or will not watch.
1:07.5	The ESPN's hiring of Peyton Manning and Eli Manning to do a megacast, which was certainly an interesting move by them.
1:15.4	Talk a little bit about the NHL schedule and how we think ESPN and Turner did. And a couple of other news and notes when it comes to sports media. So if you're a sports media nerd, I think you'll enjoy that.
1:21.2	He is followed by Melanie Newman, who is a play-by-play voice for the Baltimore Orioles on the Masson Network, M-A-S-N.
1:31.0	And you may have heard, she was the play-by-play person for the all-female announcing crew
1:36.1	that called the Ray's Orioles game on July 20th,
1:39.9	along with analyst Sarah Langs and reporter Anna Rizzo
1:44.0	and pre-game and post-game hosts Lauren Gardner and Heidi Watney.
1:48.8	And Melanie discusses how she came up in the business and how she started calling play-by-play,
1:55.9	where she thinks the business is in terms of hiring women to be play-by-play voices in baseball.
2:02.9	It's one of the sort of the glass ceilings that remain, the NBA.
2:07.4	You hear a women's voice today in the NBA.
2:09.2	You don't blink.
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