Mark Fainaru-Wada, Shannon Spake, and Jeff Gluck.

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Episode 40 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three great guests: ESPN senior investigative reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada; Fox Sports NASCAR host and NFL reporter Shannon Spake, and preeminent NASCAR writer and reporter Jeff Gluck. First up is Fainaru-Wada, who discussed his recent piece on how Bob Costas went from fronting the NFL to being excised from last year's Super Bowl; how the story came to fruition; how often he spoke with Costas; why he thinks Costas talked to him; how he approached NBC Sports and what their response was to his inquiries; whether an in-game broadcast of the NFL can ever tell hard truths; calling me out for saying ESPN would no longer do investigative work on third rail NFL issues; how he navigated this story with his superiors, who negotiate NFL media contracts; ESPN’s commitment to this kind of reporting, and much more. Spake discussed being named hostof FOX NASCAR’s race coverage, including all the anchor duties for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series; how that assignment came about; how she plans to forge chemistry with the studio group; the numbers of women working in NASCAR; how to navigate covering the sport from a studio in Charlotte; why NASCAR has hemorrhaged television viewers; working on the team of Thom Breneman and Chris Spielman on NFL games this season; the differences and similarities between NFL and college football sideline reporting; whether players and coaches curse more in pro football or college; the differences between working at Fox and ESPN; her superfandom of The Howard Stern show; her training as an endurance racer and racing in multiple half Ironmans 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile run, and much more. Gluck discussed covering NASCAR via crowdfunding and how he supports his career and life via his Patreon page; why he opted to leave USA Today for this new style of independent reporting; who is patrons are and why he thinks they fund him; his current relationship with NASCAR; how he views the state of the media covering NASCAR today; why media outlets have scaled back on NASCAR coverage; whether ESPN leaving the sport has had an impact; the declining television ratings of the sport; how to get more people of color and women interested in NASCAR; whether the crowdfunding approach could work for writers in major sports, 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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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:05.0	My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:07.2	We have three guests this week, three great, great conversations.
0:10.3	First up is Mark Faineruwada, the ESPN investigative reporter, obviously one of the foremost
0:17.9	sports investigative reporters in the country.
0:20.1	And we go 20, 25 minutes or so on his piece about Bob Costas and NBC.
0:26.0	And Bob Costas being pulled off the Super Bowl broadcast.
0:31.2	Totally fascinating piece about power, the power of the NFL, power broadcast television in the NFL.
0:36.5	And I think you're really going to enjoy that
0:37.7	conversation. So first up, Mark Faino O'Wada. Then we go to Shadden Spake, who is very, very
0:44.5	familiar to NASCAR viewers. She, this year was named the host of Fox's NASCAR race coverage,
0:51.6	which means she'll handle all the anchor duties for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series and the NASCAR Xfinity series.
0:57.0	She takes over the Chris Myers position.
0:59.2	So a huge, huge position for Shannon, basically the preeminent host of NASCAR in the U.S.
1:05.6	And we have a conversation about that and her career.
1:08.7	Also some fun stuff.
1:09.5	She's a massive Howard Stern fan and she's also an
1:11.6	endurance racer doing half Iron Man's and just ran the New York City Marathons. Probably the
1:17.2	fittest person at Fox Sports. So that was cool to talk to her. And then we finish up with Jeff Gluck
1:22.9	on this NASCAR-centric episode, one of the foremost NASCAR reporters of the last decade or so.
1:28.9	And he is doing his entire job via crowdfunding, via Patreon.
1:35.0	And Gluck's story is just fascinating how an independent journalist has been able to continue his career covering NASCAR and obviously covering NASCAR at the highest levels.
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