How to create a popular sports studio show: A conversation with NFL Live producers Lydelle King and Marc Eiseman
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Episode 257 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with ESPN’s Lydelle King, the coordinating producer of NFL Live, and ESPN’s Mark Eiseman, the producer of NFL Live. In this podcast, King and Eiseman discuss their roles producing a daily NFL show; how a show such as this gets put together each day; why on-air chemistry is almost always forged away from the camera; how viewership plays into their jobs; the importance of social media when it comes to their show; contingency plans if staffers such as Laura Rutledge or Dan Orlovsky were to leave; navigating people who appear remotely; who they consider their competition; the challenge of content during the spring and summer; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.
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| 1:07.3 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:08.1 | This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:10.2 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week for one conversation. The topic is how to create a popular sports studio show. And my guests are the two head producers of ESPN's very popular NFL Live. Lydell King is the coordinating producer of NFL Live. |
| 1:30.0 | Mark Isman is the producer of NFL Live. |
| 1:33.5 | And on this podcast, we discuss what their roles are, how to create a daily NFL show, |
| 1:38.8 | how chemistry comes together for the people on air, how viewership plays into their jobs, how they navigate |
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