NBC News and MSNBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki and The Athletic NFL reporter Tashan Reed

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Episode 141 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Steve Kornacki, an NBC News and MSNBC national political correspondent who will serve as an insight analyst for NBC’s coverage of the Kentucky Derby. Kornacki previously analyzed NFL playoff probabilities for Football Night In America. He is followed by Tashan Reed, who covers the Las Vegas Raiders for The Athletic. In this podcast, Kornacki discusses how he landed assignments with NBC Sports including the Kentucky Derby; how he felt his Football Night In America experience went, and whether he expects to be back this fall; whether a knowledge of sports helps with understanding politics and elections; the notion of horse racing coverage within a political context; growing up as a horse racing and Patriots fan in Massachusetts; how is analyzing the Derby for viewers; whether he will place bets at the Derby; the feedback he has received from his sports segments; how conscious he is that some viewers will autonomically wonder or question why a political analyst is on a sports broadcast; the tribute videos Leslie Jones has made for him, and more. Reed discusses covering an NFL team in Las Vegas; working while family members were suffering with COVID; the challenges of covering the NFL Draft amid COVID; what he expects Las Vegas to be as an NFL city; where he expects the Raiders to go in the Draft; his piece on Raiders owner Mark Davis and the Raiders’ social media feed, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Audacy, 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	hey everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:40.4	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:42.6	Today's guests, we have two of them, two excellent guests.
0:45.6	First up, Steve Kornacki, he is the NBC News and MSNBC National Political Correspondent.
0:52.6	You may ask, why is he on this podcast well.
0:55.4	If you're an NFL fan, you have seen Steve Kornacki on football night in America.
1:00.3	And as we taped this, in a couple of days, he will be on NBC's Kentucky Derby coverage as an insight analyst for their coverage of that famed race.
1:10.5	Which is pretty cool. Interesting move for NBC
1:14.2	sports. In our podcast, Steve discussed how he has landed these sports assignments, how he felt
1:20.6	his football night in America experience went, whether or knowledge of sports, he's a big sports
1:26.3	fan, has helped sort of with his work on politics and elections.
1:31.6	We get into the fact that there, you know, is he conscious that some viewers automatically will not want him on a sports broadcast because he has a connection to political reporting?
1:43.2	And then we finish up with the tribute videos Leslie Jones
1:46.4	has made for Steve Kornacki, which are pretty hilarious. He's followed by Deshaun Reed,
1:51.3	who's one of my excellent colleagues at The Athletic. He covers the Raiders, who are a really,
1:55.7	really fascinating team, and that is a fascinating beat. So Deshaun discusses what it's like covering an NFL team in Las Vegas, challenges of covering
2:04.8	the NFL draft in mid-COVID.
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