Joe Tessitore and Richard Sandomir

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Episode 6 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features ESPN play by play announcer Joe Tessitore, who was recently named the lead voice of Monday Night Football. In the podcast, Tessitore discusses in-depth how over the course of a six-week period in March and April, he auditioned 12 potential Monday Night Football analyst candidates at ESPN’s Bristol, Ct. headquarters; how he approached the audition process; the memorable audition of Jason Witten which included Witten playing football with his son on his front lawn; why Witten landed the job; why he thinks Witten will be successful; his thoughts on other applicants including Jared Allen, Brett Favre, Greg Olson, Louis Riddick, Rex Ryan, Joe Thomas, and Kurt Warner; the plans for the crew for the spring and summer; his friendship with Booger McFarland and why he thinks McFarland will be great in the field analyst role; the best kind of calamari, and much more. The second guest is Richard Sandomir, the the author of "The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper and the Making of a Classic," which has just been released in paperback. For 25 years Sandomir covered sports media for The New York Times where he now writes obituaries. In this podcast, Sandomir discusses why he decided to write a book about the Pride of the Yankees; how he went about his research; how the film was received in 1942; modern-day interest in Lou Gehrig; his thoughts on the resignation of former ESPN president John Skipper; whether he thinks there will be a future demand for sports media reporters, and 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	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. Very excited about this conversation. Joe Tessitore. The new voice of Monday Night Football is in studio with us. Joe Tess Tessor, of course, also does or calls top-ranked boxing on ESPN as well as college basketball. I will not list his resume because it's about 5,000 pages long.
0:24.7	He has done a lot.
0:25.5	Should I shorten that up?
0:26.1	You should, Joe.
0:26.8	You've done a lot at Joe, you're throwing me off here.
0:29.7	You've done, Joe has done a ton at ESPN, and we will get into some of that.
0:34.7	After Joe Tessetor, Richard Sandemir, is the guest. People know that name
0:39.3	in this space, of course, for his longtime work as a sports media writer. We have a conversation,
0:44.0	though, about his new book, The Pride of the Yankees, Luke Gary, Gary Cooper in the making of a classic.
0:49.3	Sandemir wrote a book about how that very famous movie was made. We also talk about the end of John Skipper's tenure
0:56.6	at ESPN. John Skipper, one of the prominent figures that Richard Stannamere covered during
1:00.7	his 25 years covering sports media at the New York Times. But first, I bring in in studio with a...
1:07.3	A studio that I love, by the way. You like this, right? It's at a comedy club, which is sweet.
1:12.0	I mean, I'm actually stunned that ESPN has let you out of under the cloak that you've been under for five months.
1:18.6	Are you allowed now to finally talk about the...
1:20.2	I am, but the last six weeks were ridiculous.
1:22.1	I know.
1:22.6	So how weird was that?
1:23.8	You've had this job. You had the Monday Night Football job for a long time, but yet you can't talk about it. Yes, I couldn't talk about it.
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:28.4	That had to be insane, right?
1:29.4	Because we had the clandestine auditions, Rich.
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