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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

The world of sports documentaries — with Deirdre Fenton, Executive Director, Unscripted, for Meadowlark Media

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Sports, Sports News

4.5757 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Episode 255 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Deirdre Fenton, Executive Director, Unscripted. at Meadowlark Media. In this podcast, Fenton discusses “Good Rivals,” a three-part docuseries (Fenton is the executive producer) on the rivalry between the Mexican and American national men’s soccer teams that debuts on Amazon Prime Video on Nov. 24; how Fenton defines her role at Meadowlark Media; the making of Good Rivals and the challenge of getting Mexican team players; what an executive producer does in totality; the Meadowlark/Skydance Sports upcoming documentary on Diana Taurasi; if women’s sports stories are an untapped market; the projects Meadowlark hopes to do heading forward; serving as a producer on the Academy Award-winning documentary “OJ: Made in America” and the BAFTA-winning “Hillsborough”; how could a young person can get to a position like Fenton’s and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.

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0:40.3

Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.

0:41.6

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

0:49.9

One guest for this episode, it is Deirdre Fenton, executive director unscripted for Meadowlark Media.

1:01.2

We get into a lot of things on this podcast, including good rivals, which is a three-part docu series on the rivalry between the Mexican and American National men's soccer teams.

1:06.9

Deirdre's the executive producer for that, how she defines her role at Meadowlark Media.

1:13.3

And you'll soon see from the conversation about how she works on unscripted projects and bringing them to fruition, including one she's working on now, a documentary on Diana

1:19.7

Tarazi.

1:21.7

And so it is, she's been in the business for a long time again.

1:24.8

This would be a person who, you know, you're not going to have heard of her the way you've heard of a Joe Buck or Troy Aikman or someone like that.

1:31.8

But it's a person who's done some really, really interesting things behind the scenes, including served as a producer for OJ Made in America and Hillsborough.

1:41.2

So to me, Dieter Fenton has been part of two of the three or four best things

1:44.8

ESPN has ever done. That's including every single, in my opinion, every single piece of

1:50.0

content they have ever produced. She was part of two of the top three or four. At least in my

1:55.6

opinion, anybody who's seen the OJ made in America or Hillsborough documentaries, I would imagine

2:00.3

probably agrees with me.

2:02.5

So an interesting conversation coming up with Deirdre Fenton on the sports media podcast.

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