4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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On this episode of Off the Beat: Sports, Brian is joined by the President of Programming for NBC Sports, Jon Miller. Jon tells Brian all about the last 45 years of sports television, the unlikely origin story of the National Dog Show, and reveals the secret trophy room for NBC failures hidden inside 30 Rock.
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0:00.0 | My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future. |
0:04.5 | But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show. |
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0:18.1 | And why John Carpenter movies are so good. |
0:20.6 | You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about. |
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0:58.4 | The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee. |
1:19.4 | Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour. |
1:32.9 | Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
1:39.4 | I told these guys, you know, get that out of there, but I made the inadvertent comment of shoot the the item so the director immediately panned over and shot it. |
1:51.4 | And you may get rid of it. Shoot it. |
1:54.4 | I said no, no, no, get off that shot. |
1:56.4 | And unfortunately once it appears on television, it lives on Google and YouTube and places forever. |
2:09.4 | Hi, I'm John Miller, president of programming for NBC sports and I can't wait to be on off the beat. |
2:22.4 | Hello everybody and thanks for joining us here today on another episode of Off the Beat sports. |
2:29.4 | As always, I am your host Brian Baumgartner today, one of my oldest friends at NBC. |
2:37.4 | I am bringing on the person who has currently been at NBC the longest 44 years, most of which at NBC sports, John Miller, one of the most influential voices. |
2:51.4 | In sports and of course at NBC and one of the only people in the world who can say that they have literally changed sports television. |
3:02.4 | I mean, have you ever turned on the national dog show on Thanksgiving? |
3:08.4 | John invented that. Have you ever watched the winter classic from the NHL? Well, John invented that. |
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