James Andrew Miller and Jenn Hildreth

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Episode 55 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is best-selling author James Andrew Miller, the host of the podcast, “Origins with James Andrew Miller.” He is followed by sports broadcaster Jenn Hildreth, who will be calling the 2019 Women's World Cup for Fox and also works for ESPN and the SEC Network. In this podcast, Miller discusses the many interviews ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro has done on the intersection of sports and politics at ESPN and how Pitaro views that intersection with relation to ESPN’s audience; the research ESPN says it has done on this issue and why it won’t release that data; how a company such as Disney navigates this issue; whether the social media rules should be (and are) different for Disney Chairman Bob Iger versus a front-facing ESPN employee; the growth of ESPN+ and the job ESPN programming execs have done building it up; the ESPN Monday Night Football booth decision; whether Bob Ley will return to ESPN; what the Andy Ruiz Jr.- Anthony Joshua fight means for DAZN; the growing power of Stephen A. Smith at ESPN; what is the likely scenario for Smith’s next contract; whether Smith has Jordan Rules as an employee, and much more. Hildreth discusses calling the 2019 Women's World Cup for Fox/FS1 alongside Minnesota United analyst Kyndra de St. Aubin; her preparation to call WWC tournament; the challenges of calling global soccer, particularly challenging names; how she navigates working for Fox Sports and ESPN and the SEC Network; why she decided to move from sideline reporting to play by play; the importance of her doing play by play for the next generation of women gamecallers; her work as the lead play by play voice for the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL); handicapping the 2019 Women’s World Cup; what she hopes to do heading forward, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com 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, gentlemen.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:08.8	Two producers this week, Chris Flannery and Terence Malagon.
0:12.5	Two producers, two guests.
0:14.2	First up, James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author, the podcaster, the producer,
0:20.6	the media consultant, been a guest on the show many, many times.
0:24.2	His podcast is Origins with James Andrew Miller.
0:26.6	And we have a really good conversation on ESPN and politics and Jimmy Patero, sort of going on a tour, basically, to say that we have toned down our political commentary.
0:40.3	And Jim and I get into like, you know, what that means is ESPN spinning and all sorts of interesting stuff.
0:47.7	In addition to that, we talk about ESPN Plus and where that is now.
0:51.7	Bob Eiger and his thoughts on ESPN,
0:55.9	the Monday Night Football decision to bring back the Testor McFarland combination,
1:00.1	what the Ruiz Joshua fight meant for DeZone.
1:03.4	And finally,
1:03.8	a long discussion on Stephen A. Smith,
1:05.7	his contract renegotiation,
1:07.3	and what kind of power he has at ESPN.
1:09.6	I think you can enjoy all that. Second part of this is
1:12.4	Jen Hildreth. She is calling the 2019 Women's World's Cup for Fox. She's also a play-by-play person
1:17.8	for ESPN and the SEC Network has had a really good and long career doing many different things. But
1:25.9	Jen and I discuss how to prepare for the 2019
1:29.0	Women's World Cup. She and Kendra St. Aubin were terrific in 2015, sort of the breakout stars,
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