The Biggest Media Stories in College Football: The guests are Stewart Mandel and Chris Vannini of The Athletic
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Episode 425 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: Stewart Mandel, the editor-in-chief of The Athletic's college football coverage and the co-host of “The Audible" podcast, and Chris Vannini, who covers national college football for The Athletic and his the co-host of The Athletic’s “Until Saturday” podcast. In this podcast we discuss the Big Ten’s partnership between Fox, NBC and CBS and the attempt to make Saturdays feel like an NFL Sunday; ESPN going all in on the SEC; how Nick Saban will do on College GameDay; Big Noon Kickoff; the interest in 2024 in Colorado Football; whether the 12-team postseason be good for viewership; Friday Night Football on Fox; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm your host, Richard Deutsch. |
| 0:12.3 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti, two guests this week, two of my colleagues from the Athletic, |
| 0:17.4 | two of the most prominent college football voices in the United States. |
| 0:25.2 | Stuart Mandel is the editor-in-chief of the Athletics College Football coverage. |
| 0:28.1 | Obviously, a longtime writer in the space. |
| 0:30.2 | We also used to work together at Sports Illustrated. |
| 0:34.9 | He co-hosts the Audible podcast with Bruce Feldman, another one of our colleagues. |
| 0:37.4 | Chris Finini is my other guest. |
| 0:38.6 | First time on this podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | He covers national college football issues for the athletic. |
| 0:44.8 | He also is a podcast host himself. He co-hosts the athletics until Saturday podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | So we have Stu, I believe, based on where in the West Coast. |
| 0:52.2 | I think Chris is a Detroit kind of Michigan guy. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm here in the, really, the college football hotbed of Toronto, Ontario. |
| 0:58.1 | So, but I wanted these two on because I really have been wanting to do a college football media-centric podcast for a while. |
| 1:04.5 | And who better than Stuart Mandel and Chris Finini. |
| 1:07.7 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:10.5 | Thanks for having us, Richard. |
| 1:12.2 | Good to be here. |
| 1:13.3 | All right, Chris, I'm going to start with you. |
| 1:15.5 | And then, Stu, you should just basically feel free to follow up on anything Chris says, |
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