Kate Abdo, Chad Finn & Mitch Albom

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Episode 26 of the Sports Media Podcast features Turner Sports and Fox Sports soccer host Kate Abdo; a media discussion with Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn on Monday Night Football’s broadcast crew and declining World Series viewership; and best-selling author and Detroit Free Press sports columnist Mitch Albom. In this podcast, Abdo discusses her role as the studio host for Turner and Bleacher Report’s UEFA Champions League coverage; how she ended up in soccer broadcasting after leaving home at 16; the differences between working in sports media in the U.K., Germany and the United States; the sexualized coverage of women broadcasters in the U.K.; being fluent in four languages and how that has shaped her soccer work; her biggest takeaway from Fox’s coverage of the 2018 World Cup; her Muslim faith and whether she has experienced discrimination or repression in her job; how she navigated Ramadan and calling the World Cup; future assignments and much more. Deitsch and Finn discuss the declining World Series viewership from last year; whether there is Boston fatigue; the call of Joe Buck and John Smoltz; and an analysis of the Monday Night Football booth. Albom discusses his current book, “The Next Person You Meet In Heaven," the sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven”; the challenges of bouncing from sports writing to non-sports writing; how much a sporting event still interests him as a writer; what sports figure in Michigan he finds the most compelling and why; whether he misses being on ESPN regularly and the fate of the newspaper sports section. 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 Sports Media podcast.
0:05.7	My producer, as always is League Public Reno.
0:08.0	Three guests this week, three segments.
0:09.8	I think you're going to enjoy all of them.
0:11.2	First up, it is Turner Sports and Fox Sports soccer host Kate Abdao.
0:16.1	She's been doing some sensational work for Fox, for Turner, and I think you're going to enjoy that
0:23.3	conversation.
0:23.9	Super smart.
0:25.3	Speaks foreign language is a very, very interesting moment.
0:28.5	After that, Boston Globe Media writer Chad Finn and I have a discussion on the World Series
0:33.2	viewership and surprisingly down from last year's viewership in every game despite the classic
0:40.1	matchup between the Red Sox and the Dodgers. We'll also talk about the Monday night football
0:44.5	broadcast crew and why it has just not worked so far. So Chad Finn after Kate Abdow and then we
0:50.4	finish up with the Detroit Free Press sports columnist Mitch Album. We'll talk about his
0:58.5	new book, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven. That's the sequel to the five people you meet
1:02.7	in heaven. But beyond that, Mitch talking about what sporting events still interests him as a writer,
1:06.8	what sports figure in Michigan he finds the most compelling, and whether he misses being on
1:10.5	ESPN, as the sports reporters has now been off the air for a couple of years. So Kate Abdo,
1:16.8	Chad Fynn and Mitch Album, all coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:21.6	Our guest this week, someone soccer fans in the States know very well. Kate Abdao is the studio
1:26.4	host for Turner and Bleacher
1:28.6	Reports, UEFA Champions League coverage. She's also a studio host for Fox Sports' soccer programming.
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