Longtime sportscaster Trey Wingo

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 122 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Trey Wingo, who joined ESPN in 1997 and anchored multiple sports and events for the network including serving as the lead host of ESPN’s NFL Draft coverage. Wingo is debuting a new podcast series this week — Half-Forgotten History. In this podcast Wingo discusses his new podcast venture; why he is no longer at ESPN from his perspective; what ESPN management told him when he told them last year that he no longer wanted to continue co-hosting his ESPN Radio show upon the conclusion of his current contract; being the subject of negative news; whether he was a casualty of the company purging high-salaried, long tenured folks; how he viewed the outpouring of praise he received on Twitter after the annoucement; working with Mike Golic on ESPN; why Golic is no longer hosting a prominent spot on ESPN Radio; hosting the September 11, 2001 SportsCenter with Bob Ley; how social media has impacted ESPN; his thoughts on future television work 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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0:28.7	everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry. This week, one guest, but a terrific one. It's Trey Wingo, who probably does not need much of an introduction on this podcast. He worked at ESPN from 1997 until this month.
0:57.0	He anchored multiple sports, multiple sports centers, well-known host of the NFL draft.
1:05.3	And he is now the host of the Half-Forgaten History Podcast.
1:09.7	Half-forgotten History Podcast, Half-forgotten history podcast.
1:11.2	Check that out on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play.
1:15.5	And Trey and I have what I thought was a terrific conversation about him starting his new podcast series,
1:22.0	why he's no longer at ESPN from his perspective, how it happened.
1:27.4	The sort of his thought about taking the radio job with Mike Golick and what that
1:34.3	ultimately meant for his future, uh, working at ESPN for as long as he did, hosting sports
1:41.6	center on 9-11, what, uh, what he thinks ESPN will be heading forward,
1:47.6	the impact of social media at ESPN, and what Trey is thinking about next.
1:52.2	So it's probably the, I think it's not probably, I think it's the first time he's really
1:55.8	gone in depth about why ESPN opted not to resign him.
2:00.8	So really interesting in-depth conversation with Trey Wingo. I think you can enjoy it. about why ESPN opted not to resign him.
2:03.9	So really interesting in-depth conversation with Trey Wingo.
2:06.7	I think you can enjoy it coming up on the sports media podcast.
2:10.8	All right.
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