Gus Johnson of Fox Sports and Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel of The Athletic

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Episode 66 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Fox Sports play by play broadcaster Gus Johnson and The Athletic college football writers Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel. In this podcast, Johnson discusses his approach to calling big plays and silence; the challenges of calling college football compared to other sports; his most memorable college football game as a broadcaster; how noon ET kickoffs will change his routine; why he wants badly back in the NBA; his approach to social media; his thoughts on Jay-Z and the NFL; why he considers his world soccer assignment the best of his professional career; the most impactful people in his career; working with Joel Klatt and Bill Raftery; if Fox Sports and CBS Sports are different and much more. Feldman (who also works at Fox Sports) and Mandel discuss the biggest storylines of the CFB season; whether access has changed since they have been on the beat; how they would add to the television coverage of college football; the podcast market for college football; what college football stories work for The Athletic 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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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:08.0	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:10.0	On this week's edition, I think you're really going to enjoy this.
0:14.0	We have a conversation with Fox Sports Play-by-Played by Playbroadcaster, Gus Johnson.
0:20.0	We're almost recognizable voices in sports broadcasting.
0:24.2	You hear his work on Fox Sports, both in college football and in college basketball,
0:30.1	and basically an iconic voice when it comes to calling a exciting play.
0:39.3	And Gus Johnson starts off his season this Saturday, in fact, with Ohio State hosting
0:46.6	Florida Atlantic on Fox at noon.
0:50.4	They are followed, or they, he is followed by two of my colleagues from the athletic,
0:57.0	college football national writers Bruce Feldman and Stuart Mandel, Bruce Feldman, also a reporter on
1:01.8	Fox Sports. I also want to note they are the co-hosts of The Audible with Stu and Bruce,
1:06.3	which you should definitely check out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, etc.
1:11.5	We discussed the biggest storylines of the college football season, talk about college football access,
1:16.0	what they'd add to the television coverage of college football, and the podcast market for college football right now.
1:22.3	So two really, really cool conversations.
1:25.1	First, Gus Johnson for about 40 minutes or so. And then that is
1:29.0	followed by Bruce Feldman and Stuart Mandel, both coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:34.4	All right, as I said at the top, his voice will need no introduction. It is Gus Johnson,
1:39.7	one of the more well-known sports broadcasters of his era, and almost of any era, I would say.
1:48.3	He has been a guest on this podcast before when it was at Sports Illustrated, and he joins me again on the sports media podcast.
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