Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is

Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry. Today's guest is one that you are familiar with, certainly if you watch ESPN.

Steve Levy has one of the most high-profile jobs at that company. He is the voice of

Monday Night Football. If you are a sports media viewer or watcher, you certainly have seen Steve

for three decades on Sports Center, college football calls, many, many different segments and games involving the NHL.

Our conversation today is about his first year in the Monday Night Football Booth,

why he believes that his broadcast group has earned the right to come back.

The unprecedented nature of this year, his thoughts on whether ESPN will get the NHL again

and much more. I thought it was a really, really interesting interview, and I appreciate Steve

Levy's time. So without further ado, Steve Levy of ESPN.

All right, as I said at the top, Steve Levy, I mean, unless, you know, if you're listening to this podcast and you don't know this, it would probably be rather insane.

But he is, of course, the lead play-by-play commentator for Monday Night Football.

As I mentioned in the long intro I gave him up at the top, he, you know, he's now been in ESPN for almost 30 years,

which is sort of crazy just to think about. Wow. Yeah, I know, Steve. And you've seen him,

obviously, on Sports Center for many decades, the NHL, the XFL, college football, and then various

other Projects at ESPN, and I'm pleased to be joined by Steve Levy.

Steve, I feel like this has been in the making for a long time.

So thank you for coming on the sports media podcast.

No, I appreciate having me.

I've listened.

You're one of my favorite follows on Twitter, too.

Always interesting.

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