Skip Bayless: Why I left ESPN for Fox Sports 1

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Skip Bayless, the co-host of Fox Sports 1's "Skip and Shannon: Undisputed," talks about his recent decision to leave ESPN after 12 years on the air for its smaller Rupert Murdoch-owned rival in Los Angeles. He tells Recode's Peter Kafka that he needed to get out of his comfort zone — and out of ESPN's hometown of Bristol, Connecticut. Bayless also discusses the ways Fox is different from Disney-owned ESPN, the unlikely way he got into sports journalism and why he doesn't pay attention to the internet, even though he has more than two million Twitter followers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.1	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
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0:47.6	I'm here with Skip Bayless from Fox Sports One.
0:50.5	Skip, it's 9.30 on Los Angeles time.
0:53.5	You've been up since when? 2 a.m. L.A. time but I don't want to
0:57.9	acknowledge that publicly because my watch is still on East Coast time so in my head it was 5 a.m.
1:03.4	which is when I always got up for the previous show that I did on ESPN for the previous 12 years.
1:10.0	I was always up at 5 a.m. and so I just think in my head
1:14.5	they're up, I better be up. So you basically don't sleep at this point? I try, Sunday, Monday
1:22.5	nights are the rough ones because we've got the late games, but I'm on the same schedule I was
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