ESPN’s Chris Fowler, Jordan Cornette and Shae Peppler Cornette of ESPN Radio and author and sports writer Harvey Araton

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Episode 118 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is ESPN’s Chris Fowler, the lead college football and tennis voice for ESPN. He is followed by Jordan Cornette and Shae Peppler Cornette, who co-host ESPN Radio’s GameDay each Sunday during football season from 1-5 p.m. ET. It is the first time a married couple has co-hosted an ESPN Radio show. The final guest is the longtime New York Times sportswriter Harvey Araton. He is the author of “Our Last Season: A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship,” which chronicles his bond with Michelle Musler, a longtime season-ticket holder for the Knicks. In this podcast, Fowler discusses his new podcast, “Fowler, who you got?”; why he likes long-form interviews; trying to book guests away from ESPN; doing a non-sports podcast; the adjustments he has made regarding calling college football this year; the lack of a crowd; calling an NFL game this year with Kirk Herbstreit; his interests in doing the NFL long-term; his approach to social justice and politics publicly and much more. Cornette andPeppler discuss co-hosting ESPN Radio’s GameDay each Sunday; what it means to them to be the first married couple to co-host an ESPN Radio show; how they describe their on-air chemistry and show; how their professional partnership come together; moving from successful jobs in Chicago and navigating the ESPN ecosystem; how they decides who leads each show; how much sports is a part of their day to day relationship; whether they hope to continue to work together, and much more. Araton discusses the role of the general sports columnist in 2020 and whether the position is endangered; opinion writing versus reporting; why he wrote his book and the impact personally of his relationship with Musler; how COVID might change the dynamic of the courtside fan; selling a book during a pandemic, 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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1:12.1	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich. Welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antenetti and Sean Cherry. Three guests this week. Three really great conversations. First up, ESPN's Chris Fowler. Doesn't really any much of an introduction. We need college football and tennis voice for ESPN. He has a new podcast out, which we talk about called Fowler Who You Got. It is a long-form interview podcast, including many discussions away from sports. So Chris talks about why he's doing it, where the podcast, what he hopes to do with the podcast. And then we get into calling college football this year in an unprecedented environment, his experience with the
1:17.0	NFL, and if you'd like to do more NFL games in the future. So Chris Fowler first,
1:21.8	followed by Jordan Cornett and Shea Pepler Cornett. They co-host ESPN Radio's game day each Sunday during the football season.
1:30.1	It is the first time a married couple has co-hosted an ESPN radio show, and they were a ton of fun.
1:35.8	They have awesome chemistry if you've never heard them before.
1:39.1	So a great conversation with Jordan Cornett and Shea Pepler-Cornet.
1:42.3	And then we finish up with Harvey Arden, the longtime New York Times sports writer, sports columnist.
1:47.5	He has a new book, Our Last Season, A Writer, A Fan, and a Friendship Chronicles his bond with a long-time season ticket holder for the Knicks who became a really close friend of Harvey Arritons.
2:00.3	So three great conversations, three really, really good guests, Chris Fowler, Jordan
2:04.0	Cornett, Shea Pett, and Harvey Arriden, all coming up on the sports media podcast.
2:12.8	All right, as I said at the top, Chris Fowler, who, if you listen to this podcast, honestly, doesn't really need much of an introduction.
2:19.3	So I'll give him, but I'll give him one anyway.
2:21.4	He is the lead college football and lead tennis voice for ESPN.
2:27.0	You have heard and seen his work on that network for probably three decades at this point.
2:35.4	Calling the biggest college football games of the week.
2:38.5	For those of us who are tennis fans like myself,
2:40.9	you see him at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon at the Australian Open.
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