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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

JEMELE HILL LEAVES ESPN; BEADLE LEAVES GET UP!

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Episode 21 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. The first segment is a roundtable with Sports Business Daily media writer John Ourand and Black Sports Online founder and editor Robert Littal. In the podcast, the three of us discuss Jemele Hill leaving ESPN; what it means for the ESPN brand; why it happened; how much of it the decision was tied to Hill’s suspension last October or new ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro; what it says that ESPN’s most prominent African-American female voice has left the company; Michelle Beadle leaving Get Up! to return to Los Angeles for added basketball responsibilities; Fox’s foray into Thursday Night Football; whether college football viewership will be hurt by a summer of scandal; the future of ESPN’s The Undefeated and more. The third guest is Ryan Glasspiegel of The Big Lead website. We discuss Glasspiegel’s breaking the story of Beadle leaving Get Up!; why he thinks it happened; whether there is any relationship to Beadle’s comments about no longer watching football to that decision; the longterm future of the show; whether Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic would ever get back together, 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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0:00.0

Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer is always is Lou Pellegrino.

0:08.2

And we decided to do, put together a roundtable very quickly because of all the sports media news that has come together.

0:15.5

First up in this segment will be John O'Rand, frequent guests of this podcast.

0:20.6

He is the sports media writer for Sports Business Daily and Sports Business Journal.

0:25.1

And Rob LaTal, the founder and editor of Black Sports Online, also a frequent guest on this podcast.

0:31.5

Ryan Glassbeagle of The Big Lead will come after these guys and we'll focus more on Get Up.

0:37.2

Ryan was one of the people who broke the story of Michelle Beatle leaving Get Up.

0:44.3

And so now I bring in John O'Rand and Rob Lattal to the podcast.

0:49.1

Guys, welcome as crazy, crazy-ass week in sports media.

0:52.7

End of summer. They're trying to bury all this stuff, Richard.

0:56.2

It's all coming.

0:57.6

Everything always happens right before football season.

1:00.4

Everything is trying to, they try to get everything the way they exactly wanted right before football season starts.

1:05.6

NFL still rules, even though they mess up everything all the time.

1:08.9

This is why you should be launching morning shows at that time.

1:16.5

Okay, so here we go.

1:19.4

In terms of Jamel Hill, let's start John with you.

1:25.6

Jim Miller reported on Twitter first that Jamel Hill had reached an agreement

1:31.7

with ESPN to leave the company. They're basically buying her out. The deal was proposed by Hill.

1:37.3

I can confirm that as well according to multiple sources and accepted by ESPN's ESPN President Jimmy

1:43.3

Petaro.

1:49.8

John, what is your reaction, first and foremost, to this transaction?

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