Gus Johnson and Aqib Talib of Fox Sports

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Episode 159 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with the new Fox NFL broadcast team of Gus Johnson and Aqib Talib. The duo debuts in Week Two with the Vikings-Cardinals. In this podcast Johnson and Talib discuss how they formed their partnership; working together on a practice game; how Talib got into sports broadcasting and introduced himself to Fox Sports; how Johnson morphs between preparation for college football and the NFL; Talib’s style on the air; how broadcasters deal with feedback; what Talib is looking at pre-snap and how that is different than other announcers; their upcoming Cardinals-Jaguars broadcast; whether Gus wants to continue doing NFL games; Talib’s longterm thoughts about broadcasting 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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1:03.5	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Our guest this week, it is a new NFL broadcasting team. Two people you have absolutely heard of. Gus Johnson and Akeep Taleb are the newest broadcast team for Fox Sports. And they have the Vikings Cardinals in week two and the Cardinals Jaguars in week three.
1:33.1	And so they came on this podcast.
1:35.3	I mean, I should probably just intro them very quickly, obviously.
1:38.0	Gus Johnson, Fox Sports is lead college football and basketball announcer.
1:41.6	You know his long career working at CBS Sports Showtime, once upon a time, lead radio play-by-play announcer. You know his long career working at CBS Sports Showtime.
1:45.9	Once Upon a Time, lead radio play-by-play announcer of the Knicks, the famed March Madness caller, Akeep Talib.
1:53.3	One of the great secondary players of his era played 11 years in the NFL for the Bucks, Patriots, Broncos, and Rams five-time Pro Bowl or Super Bowl champion.
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