Lisa Byington (Bucks) and Kate Scott (76ers) reflect on their first year as fulltime NBA play by play broadcasters

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Episode 196 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests — Lisa Byington and Kate Scott, the first women full-time TV play-by-play broadcasters for a major men's professional sports team. Byington calls Milwaukee Bucks games and Scott calls the Philadelphia 76ers. In this podcast, Byington and Scott reflect on their first season in the NBA; the biggest challenges for them this season and how they handled them; how each provided support for the other during the season; receiving online criticism including gender-based criticism; their favorite interactions with players this year; Byington getting Giannis Anteokounmpo Oreo cookies during one flight; what it was like in March when they both called an NBA game at the same arena; receiving feedback from bosses; how they approach the future 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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1:03.5	Hey everybody. This is Richard Dich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. This was such a fun show. Kate Scott and Lisa Byington have returned to the sports media podcast to talk about how their first year as full-time NBA play-by-play broadcasters went to give you some background.
1:32.7	Kate Scott is the voice of the Philadelphia 76ers, part of NBC Sports Philadelphia.
1:36.2	First woman on the Pac-12 network to call a football game.
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1:45.2	A lot of firsts for Kate, along with her Pack 12 work.
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