ESPN’s Ryan Clark on building a broadcasting career and Cadence 13 producer Patrick Antonetti

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Episode 173 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is ESPN NFL analyst and podcaster Ryan Clark, the former NFL safety who has worked at ESPN since 2015. He is followed by Patrick Antonetti, the lead producer of this podcast. In this podcast Clark discusses his path from professional athlete to broadcasting; what in his opinion separates long-term success versus one contract and out in sports broadcasting; how close he was to leaving ESPN for Fox Sports earlier this year; why he wanted to own his own content; his travel schedule for his job; how a guy such as Urban Meyer bullshits his way into the NFL; comparing Patriots' Bill Belichick to God; self-evaluating his work; what he wants to do heading forward and much more. Antonetti discusses how this podcast gets put together; what his job entails; the challenge of audio editing; what he thinks makes a good podcast; his Jersey sports fandom; what episodes he’s liked producing 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	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:12.3	Two guests this week, and this is a fun show. I really, really enjoyed this and hopefully takes you into the holiday season and the new year.
0:22.3	Ryan Clark is an ESPN NFL analyst, a former NFL safety, as certainly Steelers fans know.
0:30.0	He's worked at ESPN since 2015.
0:32.3	He now regularly appears on NFL Live, Get Up, and the Monday night football post game sports center with Scott Van Pelt.
0:38.9	He's got a podcast DC and RC with Daniel Cormier.
0:42.3	They talk about MMA storylines and cards.
0:44.6	Also has his own podcast series.
0:46.6	It's called Face First, podcast digital series where he interviews former players, current athletes, people in the sports world.
0:55.2	Again, this is one of his, you know, this is a piece of material, piece of content that he owns.
1:00.2	Ryan Clark was great.
1:01.2	We talked about just basically what it's like, what it's been like for him to transition from playing football to ESPN, how he's approached the business.
1:09.2	And I think he's just a really, really interesting guy.
1:12.7	And you'll enjoy his story, talk about sort of how he looked at negotiating with ESPN for
1:18.9	his most recent contract. His answer on Urban Meyer was just incredibly blunt about how someone
1:25.0	like Urban Meyer bullshits his way into the NFL.
1:29.0	And so I really enjoyed this interview.
1:29.8	He's a smart guy.
1:31.4	Ryan Clark is first.
1:33.2	And then the second guest, Patrick Antonetti.
1:34.0	Look at that.
1:37.7	Our podcast producer for this podcast.
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