Peter King and 2 Sports Media Roundtables

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Episode 5 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features Peter King who will be leaving Sports Illustrated on June 1—his 29-year anniversary of being hired by SI—for a new job with NBC Sports in July. In the podcast King discusses why he left SI; how he came to the decision; how SI offered him more money to stay; where he stands on the future of Sports Illustrated and The MMQB; his response to criticism of being an access-oriented, league-friendly NFL reporter; why he writes about political issues in his column; what his role will be at NBC Sports; his thoughts on Jason Witten being hired for Monday Night Football; the future of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick; how legalized sports gambling will impact the NFL; NFL cheerleader gender-discrimination complaints; why the Browns drafted Baker Mayfield, and much more. The podcast concludes with two roundtables. The first features Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn, and Robert Littal, the founder and editor of Black Sports Online. In this roundtable, Finn and Littal discuss the new Monday Night Football announcing team featuring Joe Tessitore, Witten, Booger McFarland and Lisa Salters; ESPN’s hiring of Katie Nolan; the lack of opportunity for women of color to host their own sports show; John Skipper’s return; Charles Barkley's remarks on Draymond Green; printing sports television talent salaries, and much more. The second roundtable features Lindsay Adler, a baseball writer for The Athletic who covers the Mets and Yankees and AJ Perez, a sports reporter for USA Today who covers a multitude of areas including sports media. In this podcast, Adler discusses how to cover two different baseball teams; the challenges of being a first-year beat reporter; the most media friendly Yankees and Mets players; Perez’s take on ESPN’s deal to carry 10-15 UFC events exclusively on its direct-to-consumer ESPN+ platform; the future of UFC media rights; covering criminality in sports; the television prospect of the upcoming Stanley Cup Conference Finals including the Las Vegas Golden Knights, 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. My producer is always
0:05.8	is Lou Pellegrino. Two roundtables this week. First up, Chad Finn, the fine sports media
0:11.9	writer of the Boston Globe and general columnist there as well. And Robert Lattel. He is the founder
0:16.9	and editor of Black Sports Online. Both of those gentlemen have been on this podcast before,
0:21.3	and we had a long Monday Night Football discussion, as well as getting to Katie Nolan and some
0:27.1	other topics. They are followed by Lindsay Adler, who covers the Mets and Yankees for the Athletic,
0:32.1	also formerly of Deadspin and A.J. Perez, a staff writer for USA Today, who covers many different topics.
0:39.0	AJ has been on the podcast as well. But first up is my longtime colleague at Sports Illustrated,
0:46.7	who made significant sports media news this week. That is Peter King, and he announced to both the people at his
0:58.1	site, the MMQB, as well as his bosses at Sports Illustrated, that he will be leaving that
1:02.2	publication on June 1st after 29 years and starting a new job with NBC Sports in July. Peter
1:09.4	King joins me now in studio on the sports
1:11.9	media podcast. Peter, it's been a busy week for you. Richard, great to be with you. Thank you
1:17.0	for asking. First of all, you are very kind to come into the studio. One, we don't get a lot of
1:21.4	guests who do that. Well, but I don't live very far from here. So, but Peter, you're a, you're a well-known person and a man of your stature does not
1:29.6	have to come into this fine studio with myself and Lou Pellegrino, but you've done it anyway.
1:33.6	Yeah. That's why we love you. All right. So I want to start off. There's a lot of ways to go,
1:37.6	but first off, and I know you've said this in print form, and you've talked about this a little bit with some of the people who have
1:44.7	interviewed you on radio but why was just the right time for you to leave Sports Illustrated?
1:49.2	You know Richard I think there were probably three things. Number one I really have,
1:55.3	I don't want to say soured but I just sort of had enough with the 24-7-365 business of covering pro football.
2:05.7	I, because obviously at the MMQB, when the draft ends, you know, there's almost three months before the next event, which is training camp.
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