Fox NFL producer Richie Zyontz and Fox NFL director Rich Russo
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 356 of the Sports Media Podcast features Fox NFL producer Richie Zyontz and Fox NFL director Rich Russo. They are the lead production staffers on Fox’s top NFL team. In this podcast, Zyontz and Russo discuss their second year working with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen; doing Dallas-Miami; how having two sideline reporters impacts a broadcast; navigating Taylor Swift if she’s at a game; Fox’s 30th year of football; rules analysts; a shared love of Jack Buck; the amount of cameras for playoff games and more.
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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. |
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| 1:08.5 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm your host Richard Deich. My producer Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. An excellent two guests. Richie Zions is Fox's lead NFL producer. Rich Rousseau is Fox's lead NFL director. They are the producer and director for Kevin Burkart, Greg Olson, Aaron Andrews, Tom Rinaldi |
| 1:28.5 | on Fox's top team. They have been the top producer and director for NFL broadcasts of Fox for |
| 1:34.2 | many, many years. And we had a great discussion just on production, how they feel things are going |
| 1:41.2 | with Burkhart and Olson in year two, how two sideline reporters impact the broadcast, |
| 1:46.8 | some stuff about Fox's 30th year. |
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