James Andrew Miller on the increasing number of ESPN departures

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Episode 123 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author of books on CAA, ESPN and Saturday Night Live and the host of the “Origins” podcast. In this podcast, Miller and Deitsch discuss ESPN and Dan Le Batard announcing they are mutually parting ways; why that relationship ended; the impact of ESPN management on that decision; Trey Wingo leaving the company; the impact of ESPN management on Wingo not being retained; longtime ESPN writers Wayne Drehs, Bonnie Ford and Ian O’Connor announcing last week they were no longer at ESPN; the impact of losing as many sports journalists as ESPN had over the past five years; what ESPN’s commitment to sports journalism is amid their larger ecosystem heading forward, and much 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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0:28.7	hey everybody this is richard dutch. Welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antenetti and Sean Cherry. Our guest this week is a familiar one, James Andrew Miller, the bestselling author of books on Saturday AM Live and CAA. And of course, and the reason he is here for this particular podcast ESPN James
0:58.1	Miller also or Jim Miller I should say also hosts the origins podcast which is part of Cadence
1:04.1	13 family of podcast going to his archives and check those out on almost famous and sex in
1:10.7	the city some pretty remarkable stuff.
1:13.3	And Jim Miller, kind enough early in the morning for him in California to join me today on the sports media podcast, Jim.
1:19.8	I know you don't drink coffee, but are you awake? How are you?
1:22.6	Thank you for having me.
1:24.5	All right. So here's where we want to start with. Man, it has been, as you know,
1:32.5	sort of just an endless news cycle when it comes to ESPN. But last week, very big news that sort of had
1:41.4	been foreshadowed for a long time. And that was Dan Lebertard and ESPN came to,
1:47.7	at least both sides say publicly, a mutual agreement that Dan Lebertard will be leaving the company
1:54.5	and the network on January 4th. His radio show, very popular radio show will end, highly questionable, which is
2:03.7	Lebertar's television show that he did for many years with his father and Bumani Jones and others
2:09.2	will continue with some form of the SPN people on that show. So this is where I want to start with Jim. I get asked a lot of questions
2:20.3	about Lebertart over the last six months from, I would imagine, fans of his show asking, like,
2:26.1	what is ESPN doing? Like, why are they seemingly sort of making things more difficult for him?
2:33.1	And my answer was sort of always the same. Like,
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