What’s it like to cover the San Francisco 49ers? Featuring The Athletic’s Tim Kawakami
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
Audacy
4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Episode 369 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Tim Kawakami, who covers the San Francisco 49ers and other Bay Area teams as a columnist for The Athletic. He is also the host of “The TK Show” podcast and its various feeds. In this podcast, Kawakami discusses challenges and fun of covering the Niners; what kind of access he gets to Brock Purdy and Kyle Shanahan; what is unique about covering a Bay Area sports team; why the Niners have such interest in his area; what he sees for sports podcasts heading forward and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
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| 1:09.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest this week, but an excellent one is the athletics Tim Kawakami. He is a columnist for our publication. He's based in the Bay Area. So if you've read Tim over the years, you know he specializes in the Niners, |
| 1:30.0 | the Warriors, and the Giants, the A's, and all the teams that are there. |
| 1:35.6 | He's also the host of the TK Show podcast, which is more than just a podcast. |
| 1:41.4 | It's a feed of podcasts. |
| 1:42.5 | I'll ask him about that, which is now on the Fine Odyssey Network, along with myself. |
| 1:50.3 | And with that, I welcome Tim Kawakami to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:53.3 | Tim, how are you? |
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