Gus Johnson on calling the NBA again — and Bill Shea of The Athletic and Robert Seidman on whether the USFL is worth your time

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Episode 198 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. First up is sports broadcaster Gus Johnson, who is calling the NBA postseason for Turner Sports and is a longtime Fox Sports play by play caller. He is followed by Bill Shea, a senior writer for The Athletic covering sports business, and Robert Seidman, the co-founder of TVbytheNumbers who can be found on Twitter at @SportsTVRatings. In this podcast Johnson discuss what it has been like calling NBA games again; how the assignment came about; why he loves calling the NBA; the reaction to his calls; his fondness for Giannis Antetokounmpo; attending Harvard University as part of a leadership forum and much more. Shea and Seidman discuss what they thought of the first weekend of the USFL; what we made of the viewership numbers; the Fox Sports push for USFL; the tech things we saw that can be incorporated into NFL broadcasts; whether drones work or don’t for audiences; what kind of audience is needed to have a second year; the NBA’s postseason viewership numbers and what they mean; what teams going far would be helpful, 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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1:03.3	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Three guests this week, two segments. First up, Gus Johnson. Well, it does not mean any introduction. He, uh, long time, obviously, Fox Sports broadcaster, lead, uh, college football, college basketball broadcaster there for these purposes. Gus has been calling the NBA for Turner Sports calling the NBA playoffs.
1:30.8	The response to his calls have been out of sight.
1:34.0	People are loving hearing his voice on the NBA playoffs.
1:38.8	And we taped our segment right before Gus doing the Bucks Bulls game two.
1:44.5	He was in Milwaukee when we did our interview and he talked about just basically what's
1:49.5	been like calling games, how he got back.
1:51.7	He would obviously love to continue doing the NBA.
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