They produce the NFL Draft: ESPN's Seth Markman and Charlie Yook of NFL Network
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Episode 393 of Sports Media Podcast features Charlie Yook, NFL Network executive producer and the longtime point person for the network's NFL Draft coverage, and ESPN vice president executive production Seth Markman, who oversees all college football and NFL studio shows, including the NFL Draft. In this podcast, Markman and Yook discuss the growth of the NFL Draft; how the behind-the-scenes work for each production; why this NFL Draft is set up for big viewership; criticism of every pick being great; Detroit as a character in the broadcast; no longer seeing each other as competitors; Bill Belichik and Nick Saban appearing on ESPN platforms; the idea of a four-day Draft or the first rundown being split up over two nights, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm your host, Richard Dyche. |
| 0:11.5 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:13.8 | Two guests in this episode, but this is going to be a fun show, |
| 0:17.9 | especially for those of you who are so into the NFL draft, |
| 0:20.6 | and that probably is most of you listening are so into the NFL draft, and that probably |
| 0:21.0 | is most of you listening. Charlie Yuk is an NFL network executive producer. He is the |
| 0:27.5 | longtime point person for the network's NFL draft coverage. He is one of the guests, and he is |
| 0:34.7 | joined by his counterpart at ESPN. These two are buddies, Seth Markman, Vice President, Executive Production for ESPN. |
| 0:41.4 | He oversees all of their college football and NFL studio shows. |
| 0:44.7 | And he's been ESPN's point person for their coverage of the NFL draft for many years. |
| 0:50.2 | And we have a great discussion on just how to put the NFL draft on, what these guys think of this year's particular NFL draft, anything that you can think of in terms of some behind the scene stuff on how the NFL draft happens. |
| 1:05.1 | That's what this conversation is about. |
| 1:08.0 | So if you're an NFL draft nerd, I think you're going to totally dig it. |
| 1:11.0 | It's Charlie Yucke and Seth Markman coming up on the sports media podcast. |
| 1:18.6 | All right, as I said at the top, this one I'm excited about, because I've talked to both of these guys many, many times before NFL drafts and after NFL drafts. And it's kind of always a running joke that I don't talk to both of these guys many, many times before NFL drafts and after NFL drafts. And it's |
| 1:28.0 | kind of always a running joke that I don't talk to them together. I talk to them separately. |
| 1:33.2 | So this is a historic meaning. I mean, imagine if, you know, FDR and Churchill were on a boat |
| 1:41.3 | somewhere talking about the NFL draft. This would be essentially the equivalent of this. Charlie Yuk is the NFL Network's executive producer. In layperson |
| 1:49.5 | terms, that means it's the top content person there. He is the longtime point person for that |
| 1:55.3 | network's NFL draft coverage. He joined NFL Network in 2006. Seth Markman is a vice president, executive producer for ESPN. Once |
| 2:05.3 | again, the titles at that place are just annoying as hell. He oversees all college football and all |
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