Why college football is such an important property for ESPN

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 344 of the Sports Media Podcast features Amanda Gifford, a Vice President of Production for ESPN, who oversees the company’s college football event productions (live games) and the XFL. In this podcast, Gifford discusses what her role entails; how ESPN/ABC’s college football game production happens every week; why college football viewership is up this year; where college football should be as a broadcast play five years from now; why there are so few women college football opinionists in 2023; where she sees sports audio going heading forward; what someone in an ESPN talent office does; whether there will be a women president of ESPN in her lifetime; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.9	Welcome to the Sports Media podcast.
1:10.0	I'm Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest in this podcast, but an excellent one. It is Amanda Gifford. She's a vice president of production for ESPN who oversees the company's college football event productions. That essentially means live games. If you've ever wanted to know sort of the importance
1:29.3	of college football at ESPN, how game production happens every week in terms of how the
1:34.6	announcers are picked and how they end up where they end up, nobody better than Amanda
1:40.9	Gifford when it comes to that incredibly important job at ESPN.
1:45.6	She also has a lot of an long amount of experience when it comes to audio.
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