James Andrew Miller on the Adnan Virk firing

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Episode 39 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two segments. First up is a conversation with James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author of books on CAA, ESPN and Saturday Night Live the host of the “Origins” podcast. He is followed by Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn and USA Today staff writer A.J. Perez. In this podcast, Miller discusses how he views ESPN’s firing of Adnan Virk; why he believes there was a significant over-punishment; why ESPN has not investigated who leaked Virk’s firing to the media and whether that is hypocrisy; the historic inconsistency of ESPN discipline; whether the information Virk leaked was benign or significant; whether ESPN’s decision will have a chilling impact on others staffers talking to the media; what Virk’s next steps should be regarding future employment; why Miller believes ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro should bring back Virk, and much more. Finn and Perez discuss the low Super Bowl viewership number and potential reasons why it happened; whether Patriots fatigue actually exists or is a myth; the impact of Tony Romo on NFL broadcasting and their thoughts on the Virk firing. 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, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is always is Lou Pellegrino. Two segments this week, but I think you're really going to find it interesting. First up is James Andrew Miller, the bestselling author of books on ESPN, Saturday Night Live and CAA, and someone who has chronicled ESN for more than a decade now.
0:24.1	We go pretty deep on the firing of Adnan-Virke, and as you'll see from Jim Miller's passion and fire on this podcast,
0:30.7	to say that he believes this is a over-punishment would be quite the understatement.
0:37.4	So we get into that, and I think you're going
0:39.4	to find that really, really, really interesting. After that is Chad Finn of the Boston Globe and
0:45.2	AJ Perez of USA Today. Both of those guys cover media. And we talk about the Super Bowl viewership,
0:51.2	98.2 million linear television, super, super low. And we get into the reasons
0:57.4	as to why we think that happened. And both of those guys also give their opinion on what went
1:03.1	down with Adnan Verk. So Jim Miller for about 40 minutes or so, and followed by Chad Finn and
1:09.1	A.J. Perez coming up on the Sports Media podcast.
1:13.6	My guest this week is a familiar one.
1:15.7	It is a best-selling author and writer James Andrew Miller.
1:19.2	He is the author of many books that people are familiar with on this podcast.
1:25.4	The oral history of Saturday Night Live, CAA, ESPN, of course, and he is the host of the Origins
1:31.9	podcast, and there is a new Origins podcast next month.
1:35.9	Check that out on Cadence 13, Apple Podcast, etc.
1:40.7	Jim Miller, welcome back to the podcast.
1:43.3	Thanks for having me.
1:45.5	All right, so we're going to be, we're going to do this entire podcast on Adnan-Virke and ESPN's decision earlier this week, or I guess I should say ESPN's decision last week as we're taping this to fire at Nanverk for what they termed as leaking, as providing proprietary information to a reporter.
2:12.7	Credit Andrew Marchand of the New York Post for first breaking the story of the firing and then getting the
2:18.3	details of what happened. Check that story out. I think fair to say, Jim and I'll sort of expand
2:25.0	on it, but the main facts in Andrew's story are certainly correct. But it gives and brings up a lot of
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