ESPN’s Beth Mowins and Michele Smith on women’s softball as a sports media success story

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 308 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features ESPN Women’s College World Series broadcasters Beth Mowins and Michele Smith. The two (along with Jessica Mendoza and Holly Rowe) will call the Women’s College World Series on ESPN and ESPN+ this week. In this podcast, Mowins and Smith discuss the evolution of women’s softball coverage; the biggest challenges for a broadcaster covering the women’s World Series; Mowins calling her 29th WCWS and Smith in her 19th year; the challenge for Smith in finding a post-playing career in softball; how the production has increased over the years; the chemistry between the announcing group; the dominance of Oklahoma Softball and what that means for the sport; the challenge of getting softball talked about away from game windows; whether the WCWS finals should be on ABC and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, 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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1:17.0	of the Women's College World Series as a viewership property. My guests are broadcasters,
1:23.7	Beth Mowens, who's been the voice of women's college softball in ESPN for three decades now.
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