James Andrew Miller

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Episode 78 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 the host of the “Origins” podcast. His latest project is a deep dive into HBO. In this podcast, Miller discusses the prospect of ABC airing Monday Night Football and whether ESPN could afford not to have MNF on cable; the interest at Disney in airing a Super Bowl; why he believes Stephen A. Smith’s annual salary will ultimately top $10 million; how ESPN decides on salaries such as Smith’s; whether it is fair to question ESPN’s talent layoffs when the company is paying big money for talent elsewhere; ESPN staffers navigating social media thoughts about the 2020 Presidential Election; Jim’s new book project on HBO and how much sports will play a part in the book; his upcoming “Origins” podcast on the 20th anniversary of the film, “Almost Famous” 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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0:33.5	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:36.7	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the Sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Patrick Antonetti.
0:41.8	Our guest this week is an old favorite, James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author of books on ESPN, CAA, and Saturday Night Live.
0:48.9	He also has a book coming up. His latest project will be a deep dive into HBO, and we'll talk about that on this podcast.
0:55.7	He's also the host of the Origins podcast. That is also a Cadence 13 production. And Jim Miller
1:01.7	right now working on a Origins podcast about Almost Famous, the Cameron Crow film with Billy
1:08.8	Crudup, Kate Hudson, Francis McDormant.
1:12.1	That should be pretty interesting.
1:14.3	The podcast that Jim and I taped today, we talk a lot about ABC, ESPN, Monday Night Football,
1:22.1	the odds of ESPN getting a Super Bowl and where that stands.
1:25.5	We talk about what Jim knows regarding Stephen A. Smith's salary.
1:32.2	And Jim says it is higher or will be higher than what has been reported.
1:37.1	So that was pretty interesting there.
1:38.9	In terms of ESPN, we finish up on talking about ESPN employees in the 2020 presidential election and the terrain that they're going to have to navigate with that.
1:48.7	I asked Jim a little bit about his new HBO book project.
1:51.3	Obviously, HBO sports history is incredible documentaries.
1:55.0	Hard knocks, boxing, sports will be a big part of Jim Miller's book.
2:00.1	And then he's also working on Almost Famous as well.
2:02.3	So just one guest this week, James Andrew Miller coming up on the Sports Media podcast.
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