Jim Ross and Joan Niesen

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Episode 81 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: The iconic wrestling broadcaster Jim (“JR”) Ross, who currently calls All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on TNT every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. ET and is a senior advisor with the promotion. Ross is also the co-host (with Conrad Thompson) of the popular podcast, “Grilling JR.” The second guest is Joan Niesen, who recently worked at Sports Illustrated, where she covered national college football, following stops at the Denver Post and Fox Sports. In this podcast, Ross discusses how AEW approaches broadcasting; whether there is an AEW style of broadcasting; the differences between how AEW and WWE broadcast their products; the art of delivering a promo and why Chris Jericho is so great at it; working into his late 60s; how he navigates social media; why it works so well with he and Conrad Thompson; how he prepares for Grilling JR; his upcoming book, Under the Black Hat, which comes out in March, and much more. Niesen was a guest on Episode 72 of this podcast as one four former Sports Illustrated staffers who were let go last week by The Maven, the Seattle-based startup that leased Sports Illustrated's media operations from the Authentic Brands Group. In this podcast, Niesen discusses the challenges of freelancing after being let go from a writing job; how the freelance market has been for her; how she views what’s happening under the Maven at SI; the paradox of wanting to support SI writers but not The Maven; her view on college football as a television product; the deification of college football coaches, 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.
0:36.2	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome the the sports media podcast to two producers this week, Patrick Anthony and Molly Nugent, and two guests.
0:44.5	First up, Jim Ross, if you are a wrestling fan, he does not really need an introduction.
0:50.1	If you are not, he is one of the iconic voices of sports entertainment, one of the iconic voices of pro wrestling.
0:56.9	He currently calls all elite wrestling, that's AEW, on Turner Sports TNT every Wednesday at 8 p.m.
1:04.2	He's also the co-host of one of the biggest wrestling podcasts out there, grilling JR.
1:08.7	That is with Conrad Thompson and his wrestling dynasty. We get
1:13.4	into all sorts of stuff about how JR approaches his new job at AEW, what he thinks the
1:18.5	broadcasting style is, what the difference is, and just sort of how AEW approaches broadcasting
1:24.8	versus the WWE and all sorts of other stuff in terms of why
1:29.8	guys like Chris Jericho have such awesome promos, how much JR knows is coming down the pike.
1:34.5	I think you'll really, really enjoy it. Jim Ross doesn't really need any help other than to
1:38.7	make sure the record button is on. He is followed by Joan Neeson, who was my former colleague at Sports Illustrated and was on this podcast for episode 72 when she was part of the group of Sports Illustrated staffers who were let go by the Maven, the startup company that leased Sports Illustrated's media operations from the authentic brands group.
2:02.5	And I would argue continues to sort of grind one of the great publications into the ground.
2:08.3	And we were going to have some of those people back from that episode just to sort of check in
2:13.2	on how things are after life after SI. And so Joan and I talked about the challenging,
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