Mini-Pod: How to cover a NASCAR fight
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This episode of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck. Both are Motorsports reporters for The Athletic and the co-hosts of The Teardown podcast. In this podcast, Gluck and Bianchi discuss the confrontation between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch, following the NASCAR All-Star Race on Sunday night at North Wilkesboro Speedway; the events that led up to that; how Jordan got viral footage of the fight; how they prepare for fights as reporters; how NASCAR views this regarding publicity; NASCAR’s new media rights deal, beginning with the 2025 season; new partners Amazon Prime and Warner Bros. Discovery; NASCAR’s first foray into streaming; the CW’s exclusive rights to 33 Xfinity races; the Miami Grand Prix setting a new Formula One viewership record for its live U.S. TV audience; will NASCAR race outside of the U.S. and more.
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| 1:19.3 | Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Let's call this a mini episode, but the guests are major, certainly when it comes to the world of motorsports. |
| 1:29.6 | Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck are my colleagues at The Athletic, both are longtime motorsports reporters, also co-hosts of the Tear Down podcast. |
| 1:31.6 | They cover NASCAR. |
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| 1:40.3 | But we're here today because, you know, I think even if you were a casual sports fan, you probably saw footage of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. |
| 1:43.9 | And Kyle Busch getting into a scrap. |
| 1:46.4 | And that's why I want to bring him on here, because it's just kind of fascinating me, |
| 1:49.0 | like sort of how you cover a NASCAR fight. And with that, I bring in Jeff Gluck and Jordan |
| 1:54.2 | Bianchi. Welcome, fellas, to the sports. Thank you. How are you? Good to be here. |
| 1:57.8 | Appreciate it. An honor. Don't go crazy, Jordan. |
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