James Andrew Miller on ESPN

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Episode 34 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a sports media conversation on ESPN with James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author of books on CAA, ESPN and Saturday Night Live the host of the “Origins” podcast. In this podcast, Miller discusses where ESPN is in 2019 regarding its relationship with parent company Disney and its position in the sports media marketplace; ESPN’s current relationship with the NFL and interest in future rights deals; where ESPN+ is today and where it needs to be in the future; whether ESPN will be aggressive with its journalism about the NFL heading forward; new ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro’s challenges and charter; talent salaries at ESPN heading forward; what SportsCenter is today; the future of the Monday Night Football booth; ESPN and politics; why ESPN separated with Jemele Hill; a quick examination of Get Up!; ESPN as a news-breaking engine; whether ESPN would do sports-related interviews with 2020 Presidential candidates, and much more. Plus, an apology to Sports Illustrated staffers. 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	Hey everybody and welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer,
0:06.2	as always is Lou Pell Ligrino. And our guest this week for a New Year's Eve, New Year's Day,
0:12.9	post-New Year's Day edition is James Andrew Miller. Jim Miller has been a guest on my podcast many
0:19.3	times. He is a best-selling author, including Books on Live, ESPNCAA. He's the host of the Origins Podcast, which is also part of the podcast company that I worked for, Cadence 13. And specific to that, check out his Origins of a Champion podcast, which is on Nick Sabin, as Alabama plays Clemson once again for the national
0:40.2	title. You can basically go on Apple Podcasts and go to Origins and you'll find that really
0:45.1	interesting episode. And Jim Miller, of course, has written many, many media pieces.
0:49.5	I don't really need to introduce him to this audience. And we are going to focus today on ESPN.
0:53.9	We're going to do 35, 40 minutes straight just on ESPN as we pass over into from 2018 to 2019.
1:06.2	ESPN will always remain an interesting story and even more so as we hit the new year.
1:11.5	And Jim Miller joins us today on the sports media podcast.
1:15.6	Good morning, Jim.
1:17.0	And happy new year.
1:17.7	Good morning.
1:18.1	Happy New Year.
1:20.4	All right.
1:21.6	Let's just, Jim, I want to start just with a very much a overall philosophical question to you and you can go as long
1:28.7	or short as you want what is the spn right now uh ESPN is uh ESPN is a entity in bristol
1:39.2	Connecticut that is closer than ever before to its parent company Disney in
1:44.2	Burbank, California.
1:46.3	It is a vehicle that is helping Disney figure out the content world for the next decade.
1:54.8	And to that end, if there can be a new kind of way of packaging content, Disney's own skinny bundle, so to speak,
2:05.5	then ESPN would have played its role for Disney in doing that.
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