John Ourand and Chad Finn Roundtable

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Episode 43 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Sports Business Daily media reporter John Ourand and Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn. In this podcast, the group discusses Jason Witten’s return to the Dallas Cowboys; how surprised ESPN management was with Witten’s decision; what ESPN is likely to do next with Monday Night Football; whether ESPN would be better served with a two-person or three person booth; what media outlet will end up getting the story on the new Monday Night Football booth for 2019; David Levy leaving Turner Sports and the impact of that departure; what Jeff Zucker running WarnerMedia’s news and sports means for Turner properties; the Mets hiring of Jessica Mendoza as an advisor; how viewers should view Mendoza, Alex Rodriguez, David Ross, David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez and others working for baseball organizations and broadcasting games at the same time; what to expect from ESPN’s new sports gambling show; whether hardcore sports gamblers will every embrace such shows on mainstream sports networks, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify 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 is Terrence Malangone. Our guest this week, this is a roundtable. We have done this many times and these are the two regulars. John O'Rand is the sports media reporter for the Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily. Chad Finn is the sports media reporter and a general columnist for the Boston Globe and Boston.com.
0:23.8	Chad Finn joins us from Florida.
0:26.4	I assume John O'Rand is in the D.C. area.
0:28.9	John, am I correct about that?
0:30.5	Are you in New York?
0:31.3	In the 202.
0:32.6	No, no, I'm in D.C.
0:35.1	What a big year for the Wizards, John.
0:37.1	I mean, it's been exciting to watch them from Toronto.
0:40.2	All right.
0:40.7	Let us forget about the NBA.
0:42.4	You're in Canada, Richard.
0:43.5	We're still dining on the Stanley Cup down here.
0:47.3	It's all Raptors all the time for me, John.
0:49.6	All right, listen, let us stop.
0:51.2	Let us stop.
0:51.8	This is not the Zachlo podcast.
0:53.2	Let us stop the NBA as much as I love that sport. And let us get to the main item for this podcast. And that is Jason Witten. And John O'Rand, I want to start with you. There are so many ways to go. But let's sort of start with this general. And that is how surprised or not surprised when you learned
1:12.6	of the news that Jason Witten had decided to leave Monday Night Football and return to the
1:17.4	Dallas Cowboys as an active player?
1:19.9	On a scale of 1 to 10, I was surprised. It would be a 10. I wasn't expecting it. I was fully
1:27.1	expecting having talked to several people
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