Rebecca Lowe

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 18 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features guest Rebecca Lowe, the host of NBC Sports Group’s Premier League coverage, including Premier League Live, as well as an Olympic host for the network. In this podcast Lowe discusses her broadcasting comfort level as she heads into her sixth year working Stateside for NBC; how she manages the tricky logistics of her working schedule including raising a toddler in Northern California; the challenges of doing studio work onsite from the U.K.; how she approaches her future following the conclusion of her contract in 2022; navigating her attachment to the Crystal Palace football club while covering the Premier League; what she and Kate Abdo leading soccer packages in the U.S. means if anything; the impact of the 2026 World Cup in North America; why she has never seen Game of Thrones or most of the Star Wars films; how relegation would be an incredible thing for MLS; the difference between pants and trousers, 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	Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host Richard Deich. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. And our guest this week is Rebecca Lowe. She's the host of NBC Sports Group's Premier League coverage. That includes Premier League Live. She's also an Olympic host for that network.
0:26.9	She and her soccer colleagues will be in the UK for kickoff of the 2018-19 Premier League season.
0:37.9	That's August 9th and 12th, including Rebecca will be pitchside at multiple sites, including Old Trafford and some other soccer cathedrals. This is her second time with me on a podcast,
0:42.1	and that is where we will start,
0:44.1	and Rebecca Lowe joins us on the Sports Media podcast.
0:48.1	Rebecca, welcome back.
0:49.3	The last time we did this, May 22nd, 2015.
0:52.4	Oh, my goodness.
0:53.6	That's crazy, Richard. Lovely to be back. A lot of change
0:56.6	in those three years. Up to certain. Yes, no doubt. All right. So, Rebecca, you were my third podcast
1:00.5	when I was at the Sports Illustrated podcast. It was like Vern Lundquist, Adam Schaefter,
1:07.8	Rachel Nichols, and then you were third. When I interviewed you in that podcast, the first question I asked you was whether you preferred the term presenter or broadcaster.
1:21.1	Do you remember what you would have answered?
1:23.2	Let's see your recall.
1:24.2	I think I remember that question because I think remember the struggling with that a little bit.
1:29.4	I think, oh, no, this is the first question.
1:31.1	This is going to be difficult.
1:32.3	I think I went with broadcaster because it was more all-income, thing.
1:36.5	You did? Yeah.
1:37.0	All right.
1:37.3	Very, very, very well done.
1:38.8	All right.
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