Dan Patrick: Sports TV and Radio Legend

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

I used to beg my Mom and Dad to subscribe to ESPN. This was in the early 90's when the premium cable show reached only 1.5M homes (compared to now where they’re in 90M+). At the time, there was this new show dedicated to sports headlines and highlights called SportsCenter – with lead anchor, Dan Patrick. Dan Patrick was to ESPN what Howard Stern is to Sirius XM – helping grow the reach of ESPN into millions of homes. However, before landing the gig, he was on the road as a Disc Jockey doing radio station top and bottom-of-the hour score callouts, while sending in his self-made highlight tapes to industry executives hoping to get an interview. After a decade and a half at ESPN, Dan left what was familiar, to begin something far more risky and new. And over the course of the next 18 months self-funding project buildout, staffing, and ops, The Dan Patrick Show became the most successful sports talk radio show on the planet. Today, Dan can be spotted calling the Super Bowl, World Series, and more as a lead host for NBC, and if you don't get enough of DP there, you can tune in to his daily sports show either through AM/FM, podcasts, or DirectTV. His journey’s been incredible – and it's only just started. In 2017, Dan decided to take what he's learned, package it up with Full Sail University, and offer the first ever Bachelors Degree in SportsCasting. Hosted by professional athlete and entrepreneur, Suiting Up Podcast is a show that explores the psychology, playbook of tools, and strategies of the most influential people in sports, entrepreneurship, and entertainment.

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0:00.0	When I failed then you really find out about yourself. I don't find anything out about
0:10.0	somebody who wins. I find a whole lot about people who lose and lose is temporary for me.
0:17.1	Losing is just as fleeting is winning. That's the way you have to approach it. I didn't get this. Now what? I didn't get that. Now what? You're
0:27.9	going to get to the point where you go, okay, maybe this isn't for me. Now what always say now what because when you win it's
0:35.6	rare when you go now what
0:38.2	when i was younger i would beg my mom and dad to subscribe to e-s p n
0:41.6	those were the early days when e-s p only in 1.5 million homes and now they're
0:45.4	in 90 million plus. Anyway, back then there was a pilot. It was called SportsCenter that was
0:51.6	anchored by Dan Patrick.
0:53.4	Dan Patrick was to ESPN what Howard Stern is to Sirius XM.
0:57.8	Before he landed the gig at Espin, he was on the road as a dish jockey doing top and bottom
1:02.0	the hour score callouts, sending in his
1:04.4	highlight tapes to folks like Dan Levy to try and land a job. And after leaving
1:09.0	ESPAN almost a decade and a half later, Dan's launched the most successful Sports Talk Radio
1:14.2	show on the planet, which by the way was self-funded, then recapitalized, becoming
1:18.6	one of the first live talk shows on television. His journey is incredible. Through Peaks and Valleys. He's self-made,
1:25.4	and I got a chance to visit him in his studio in Connecticut, which was also self-made.
1:30.4	Suiting up is a show that explores the psychology, Playbook of Tools and Strategies of the most
1:34.1	influential people in sports, entrepreneurship,
1:36.3	and entertainment.
1:37.6	And join my interview with the legend in sportscasting, Dan Patrick. The legend in sports casting.
1:48.0	Uh-oh.
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