Pac-12 Networks, Tennis Channel and NBC Olympics broadcaster Ted Robinson

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Episode 350 of the Sports Media Podcast features Pac-12 Networks, Tennis Channel and NBC Olympics play by play broadcaster Ted Robinson. In this podcast Robinson discusses his final weeks as a college football broadcaster for the Pac-12 Networks; how broadcast crews found out about the end of the Pac-12; the loss of jobs for staffers; working Olympic broadcasts since Nagano; calling dozens of major tennis events including the French Open, US Open, Wimbledon, and the Gold Medal match at the 2012 Olympics; calling Team USA baseball Gold Medal contest in the 2000 Sydney Games; being the voice of the Federer-Nadal Wimbledon final in 2008; calling Serena and Venus’s Williams Wimbledon and French Open wins; Serena’s dominance; the keys to calling tennis; working with Bill Walton and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, 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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0:53.4	Welcome to the Sports Media podcast. This is Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:59.0	One guest this week, but an excellent one. It is Ted Robinson in the long time and accomplished play-by-play voice.
1:06.3	Now working for Pac-12 networks. You of course see him on the tennis channel as well as NBC
1:12.9	Olympics. Ted has called some of the greatest tennis matches in the history of that
1:19.1	sport, including what many people believe is the greatest match between Roger Federer and
1:23.3	Rafa and Dahl at Wimbledon. And we have a great conversation just on Ted's career. He's now at the
1:30.5	end when it comes to calling Pac-12 football, obviously with the disillusion of that conference. And
1:36.7	it's just amazing when you go through Ted's career, just how many unbelievable events he's called.
1:42.7	So had a terrific conversation on the end of the Pact 12 networks,
1:45.6	what that's been like for staffers like Ted,
1:47.9	as well as some great tennis broadcasting talk.
1:52.1	Finish with Bill Walton,
1:53.4	who other than Dave Pash,
1:55.2	no one's called more games with Bill Walton, I believe, than Ted Robinson.
1:58.6	So Ted Robinson coming up on the sports media podcast.
2:04.3	All right. As I said at the top, Ted Robinson has really had a remarkable career in broadcasting.
2:11.3	His current assignments include the Pac-12 networks, tennis channel, and NBC Olympics. But again, if you go to his bio, it's really, really deep.
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