Top Soccer TV Producer Shaw Brown

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Grant has an in-depth interview with Shaw Brown, one of the longest-tenured producers in U.S. soccer television, who has worked at CBS Sports HQ (currently), Fox Sports, NBC Sports and ESPN over the last two-and-a-half decades. Brown explains the details of what he does for soccer TV broadcasts, how he lands A-list interview guests, what he looks for in TV talent, which current players he thinks will become good TV broadcasters someday, and tells stories about his most memorable soccer interviews of his career.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:09.8	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.4	Our interview guest is Shaw Brown, one of the longest tenured producers in U.S. soccer
0:16.8	television who has some great stories you'll want to hear.
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0:42.6	Now here's my interview with Shaw Brown.
0:47.0	Our guest now is a good friend of mine, and one of the longest tenured soccer television
0:52.2	producers in the United States.
0:54.8	Shaw Brown is a freelancer these days, who does a lot of work for CBS Sports HQ.
1:00.6	And over the past two and a half decades, he has also worked for Fox Sports, NBC Sports,
1:06.2	and ESPN.
1:08.2	Basically, if you name a major figure in soccer, domestic, or foreign since the late 90s,
1:14.7	there's a good chance that Shaw Brown is interviewed or interacted with that person.
1:19.7	Shaw, it's great to see you.
1:21.3	Thanks for coming on the show.
1:22.3	Thanks for having me, Grant.
1:23.3	Lots to talk about.
1:24.8	You're a hard interviewer.
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