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Mark Gleason spends time with Don to talk about everything related to sports as a camera operator. He has worked on ESPN’s Armed Forces Classic and the Carrier Classic, countless Major League Baseball games and National Football League games. Prior to Game 2 of the National League Championship Series in Philadelphia, Mark was at his camera position in centerfield to explain how a camera works and what the controls are. He also shows his passion for his career and says that when he watches a game after he’s worked on it is an out-of-body experience.

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00:00 - Introduction to Episode #41

00:40 - Episode Introduction to Mark Gleason.

01:30 - Images from Mark.

01:45 - Intro via Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

03:30 - How Mark got into media by way of radio at KCBQ in San Diego.

05:10 - Mark made his way to an audio video company and how he worked with the San Diego Padres.

09:00 - How radio was Mark’s first love and how he wanted to entertain people.

12:00 - How “Mark’s Groovy Trip,” Mark’s radio program started.

16:00 - What it takes to be a broadcast camera operator.

17:12 - Mark shows his “headshot sheets,” a print out of all the players in the NLCS and the voices Mark hears in his headset.

19:50 - Mark explains which cameras are on a baseball field — Low Third base.

20:43 - Camera 2 — High Home

21:05 - Camera 3 - High First

21:40 - Camera 4 - Centerfield

22:20 - Camera 5 - Low First

23:15 - Camera 6 - Centerfield Tight

23:55 - Camera 7 - High Third

25:08 - How many cameras on bigger shows.

25:50 - What fans say to Mark when he’s at his camera.

27:00 - Mark shows all of the parts of a camera with program monitor, focus, zoom and how much the cameras cost.

29:05 - The talkback button and zoom extender and lens length.

29:55 - How the skill level of an operator can determine how hands-on a director is.

31:28 - Cameras shoot for replay operators when they are not live and what they look for.

33:00 - What goals Mark has when shooting an event (emotion).

34:55 - How camera coverage is different with sports other than baseball.

36:10 - High profile events Mark has worked on (Armed Forces Classic) and how he traveled around the world shooting camera.

37:55 - Working on the “Carrier Classic” for ESPN.

39:03 - How watching his camera work after a game is an out-of-body experience.

41:00 - The events that Mark has worked on that have a special significance and how this business validated his career to his dad.

43:50 - How Mark stays warm in cold weather when shooting camera.

45:50 - Mark’s advice to aspiring camera operators and how the younger generation wants to do other types of camera work such as drones.

47:25 - The two types of shooters on a tv production.

48:00 - The special people he’s worked with in tv.

49:04 - What Mark loves about what he does (he helps the viewer at home experience the game).

51:05 - Where people can find “Mark’s Groovy Trip.”

52:23 - Mark’s most cherished credential.

53:05 - Mark’s favorite sports movie.

53:58 - Thanks to Mark

54:23 - Episode Wrap

54:52 - Thank you to Heirloom Travel & Adventure

55:01 - Where to watch and listen to Sports In The Making

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00:00 - Heirloom Travel Promo (heirloomtravelandadventure.com)

00:38 - Heat Media Promo (heatmediavisuals.com)

00:59 - Episode Introduction, Boulder, Colorado

01:42 - Introduction to Mark Johnson, Voice of the Buffs.

02:15 - Where Mark’s love of sports came from.

03:35 - Mark’s start in broadcasting and the work he did early in his career.

04:55 - What the play-by-play announcer role does and should be doing for the audience.

06:15 - How getting repetitions was important for Mark’s career and how he would get as much critique as he could.

07:59 - How Mark didn’t rely on his voice to carry him.

08:52 - Mark’s early opportunity calling basketball games at NCAA D1.

10:00 - Mark getting a play-by-play announcer job at Syracuse, competing against Syracuse alumni.

11:55 - The difference in covering a football game versus a basketball game and how he has to prepare for each.

14:30 - How Mark is fair and balanced when covering a hometown team and uses objectivity.

1637 - What Mark’s job responsibilities were at KOA Radio as Sports Director.

17:50 - What is most special about covering games at CU’s Folsom Field.

19:30 - Since Coach Prime Deion Sanders started coaching at CU, what it’s been like for Mark.

21:46 - How this season at CU has affected how Mark does his work as Director of Sports Broadcasting.

23:18 - How Mark’s relationship with Coach Prime because of his celebrity status and all of the things he’s a part of.

25:12 - How Mark and Don met at a bull riding event in Castle Rock, Colorado in 2018, and how Mark saved Don from a bull.

27:08 - How Mark being a Christian helps him with his broadcast career.

29:05 - Mark’s family is important and how his forever child Jake has impacted hm and his family’s life.

32:34 - How Mark works in the fun-and-games department in sports and how his faith gives him hope and changes his perspective on life.

33:50 - How Mark describes the Colorado fan base and how they’ve had a long drought with winning football teams.

37:00 - Showing Mark images of a super-fan Cash Muller who painted his backyard in Buffs colors.

37:55 - Mark’s favorite sports movie.

39:45 - Marks’ most cherished piece of sports memorabilia.

43:36 - How he gave Carmelo Anthony advice on giving autographs while at Syracuse University.

45:25 - Mark’s excitement for CU Buffs Football now that Coach Prime is in the program.

45:45 - Episode Wrap.

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00:00 - Heirloom Travel & Adventure Promo

00:41 - Episode Introduction

02:35 - How Oscar Sanchez describes the sports broadcasting industry.

04:25 - How Oscar got into sports television.

07:24 - How he worked in all aspects of television but had more control working behind the scenes.

09:09 - Making the jump to sports from news and entertainment.

11:50 - What his role is at CONCACAF.

14:12 - How people working in sports television should understand all positions.

16:50 - Where the idea of sharing broadcast advice on LinkedIn came from.

18:52 - What feedback Oscar gets on his LinkedIn posts.

22:45 - How Oscar views people who take initiative to create their own content.

26:30 - Where he gets ideas for his posts and what value he’s providing.

28:54 - Oscar’s thoughts on artificial intelligence and how it will affect broadcasting in the future.

31:05 - What some of the marquee events Oscar has worked on.

35:12 - The difference of producing sports broadcasting internationally versus the United States.

38:15 - What broadcast sports position Oscar feels deserves more recognition.

41:00 - What characteristics Oscar looks for when hiring personnel.

44:12 - What “The Ministry of Broadcasting” is about and what Oscar is trying to build from it.

47:15 - Where people can find out more about The Ministry of Broadcastong (oscarsanchez.us)

47:50 - What the most memorable event Oscar has worked on.

48:52 - What the best professional advice Oscar has received in his career.

50:25 - If Oscar has exprienced people who are good networkers or struggle with networking.

52:20 - What Oscar’s favorite sports movie is.

53:48 - What his most cherished or memorable credential or event he’s worked on.

57:30 - Episode wrap.

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0:00 - Episode #38 Introduction

1:20 - Introduction to Jed Drake and how he started in broadcast television, first as a local reporter covering the Lake Placid Olympics in 1980.

5:38 - Jed reconciling his Olympic coverage with Roone Arledge

7:05 - When Jed joined ESPN as a production assistant

10:35 - Working the early days at ESPN and how he got opportunities with a start up sports network.

12:40 - What the most fun working at ESPN was for Jed.

14:00 - What makes people standout in a producer role and how the producer has to have confidence in the thousands of decisions they need to make.

16:05 - What some of the announcers are like at ESPN with Chris Berman and Mike Tirico stories.

19:40 - Announcers’ commentary must be dynamic.

20:25 - How personality was a core part of ESPN’s growth and how John Walsh told Jed to “hire intelligence.”

23:00 - Where Jed has had the most impact with the 2014 and 2016 FIFA World Cups.

27:45 - How ESPN’s executive team decides on what budget to allocate to big sporting events.

30:20 - What the date, September 27, 1998 means to Jed - debut of First-And Ten Line.

33:10 - NFL Network’s program Amazing Technology! With technology developments from scratch, Jed talks about believing in what you are doing to continue it and the team that works on those innovations.

37:20 - Mike Patrick’s iconic words introducing the First-And-Ten line and what Jed’s state of mind prior to and after the first airing.

42:00 - How the K-Zone came to be at ESPN behind Jed’s idea.

47:45 - Did the success of these game innovations influence ESPN’s technology group.

49:55 - How the Pylon Cam had to be cleared by the NFL for use on games.

54:00 - How the Ed Placey pitched the Blue Line was added to broadcasts and how those who reported to Jed were encouraged to pitch new ideas.

57:55 - What Jed Drake & Associates does in broadcast television.

59:15 - What Jed is doing with C360 and Cosm.

1:03:30 - What products C360 has and what they do and how sports data will provide new avenues for sports coverage.

1:09:30 - Where Jed sees broadcasting in the next five years (recorded August 18, 2023)

1:13:10 - How the end user may have control over the content they watch.

1:14:50 - What Jed’s favorite sports movie is.

1:15:40 - What sports memento or credential is most special to Jed.

1:17:45 - What advice Jed has for someone who wants to get into sports broadcasting.

1:21:00 - Episode Wrap Up

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00:00 - Open

01:00 - Introduction to Owen Scannell

01:37 - How Owen started Premier Rugby Sevens and how Collegiate Rugby Sevens helped new viewers understand the sport.

07:00 - Premier Rugby Sevens Clip from Pittsburgh Tournament

08:50 - When Owen thought he had a viable new sport in the U.S.

12:15 - Growing PR7s with partners were incremental

14:10 - How he’s built the league with a strong team of people who understand rugby.

19:20 - Objectives on game day for PR7s.

24:00 - PR7s community involvement to grow the sport.

33:00 - PR7s bringing in international players to help with the rugby culture in the U.S.

38:10 - Star players in PR7s and how they can help contribute to building the new league.

41:35 - Getting buy-in from the sports television networks when the product is very new.

44:48 - How to get sponsors for a new sports league.

46:50 - What went into the naming of franchises that help develop the PR7s brand.

53:35 - Why Franchises are under the PR7s umbrella.

55:55 - What PR7s future looks like.

58:20 - PR7s website plus Don’s visit to England for rugby

1:00:00 - Wrap up

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0:00 - Episode Introduction to Mike DesRoches

1:15 - Where Mike’s love of sports came from

2:10 - Mike played D1 college baseball

2:40 - How Mike started working for Sony

4:00 - What Mike does with Sony now with broadcast sports

6:00 - How I met Mike at the Denver AVEXpo and how Mike helps the sports networks

9:10 - The kinds of innovations that cameras have achieved and where camera technology is going

14:15 - How autofocus has improved drastically (with video)

16:10 How the camera operator benefits from the autofocus technology on broadcast tv

22:50 - Mike having a relationship with the broadcasters

23:30 - What the blend is between artistic and executing shots during a broadcast

25:00 - How long the tests take before revealing the technology on-air

28:35 - How cinematic cameras are readily available for producers and directors

29:30 - How many possibilities there are for camera placement in a broadcast

32:30 - Working with stadiums and arenas to enhance the entertainment value for video

36:00 - Where the future trends of camera technology will be with virtual, esports, etc.

38:40 - Mike’s favorite events he’s been a part of

41:40 - Photos & stories from some of the events he’s been a part of (Al Michaels)

• Survivor TV Show crew

• Dallas Cowboys NFL game

• ASU Sun Devils

• Clemson in-house video crew

• Larry Fitzgerald

• NHRA

• Minnesota Vikings

• LA Dodgers

• PGA Golf

• UFC

• RSN SVG panelist

• Odell Beckham, Jr. NYGiants Game

• Washington Huskies

55:15 - How Mike got his foot in the door with Sony, how he got to his current position and how he changed the way Sony reached out to clients

59:40 - Mike on building relationships

1:00:15 - Mike’s most special credential

1:01:55 - Favorite sports movie

1:03:25 - How people can get in touch with Mike DesRoches

1:04:40 - Episode Wrap

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00:00 - Episode Introduction

01:30 - How Amy got into sports broadcasting working with the tv broadcasts for the New York Yankees

4:20 - How the Yankees’ Don Carney, Executive Producer & Director took a risk hiring Amy and women in sports tv.

6:20 - When Amy was 11 years old she participated in the New York Nets’ “Run, Dribble & Shoot” contest but wasn’t allowed to compete for the finals

9:50 - Amy visited with Jim Garvey, who refused to let her play, many years later in California (pictures)

11:00 - How she hopes she was able to inspire young girls to never give up

12:10 - Where her love of sports came from

13:25 - How her parents helped give her confidence

14:15 - Amy’s first experience with the Yankees and how it set her up for future work

16:15 - The types of events Amy has worked on in her career and working on a cycling event helped her love cycling

19:40 - How I met Amy working in the Dominican Republic

21:30 - What the different positions are that she’s worked and what a stage manager, assistant director and field producer does

24:40 - What broadcast position is the most rewarding for Amy

25:40 - How Amy’s multiple language skills help her work on many international events including World Baseball Classic, Cycling and other eventsWhat other sports that resonate with Amy and how she approaches those sports

30:50 - How Amy’s work helps producers and directors realize their visions

32:00 - How she has seen the broadcasting business change over the years

34:00 - Pictures of Amy working in her environment

• Tokyo Olympics

• Hockey

• NHL All Star Game

• Pyeongchang Olympics

35:30 - What a “Mixed Zone” is

• Rio Olympics

• Dick Barnett Interview

37:40 - Pan Am Games Toronto picture

• Hockey Night In Canada

• NBA Finals

• Vancouver Olympics

• Tour of Alberta Cycling

39:40 - Working with celebrities & personalities

• Bill Walton & Dead Head Story

• Chris Mullen

• Larry Brown

• Thurl Bailey

• Phil Leggett & Paul Sherwen

• Phill Leggett at Rio 2016

• Vince Carter

• Friend of hers Tanya

• Pyeongchang for CBC Hockey

• Pyeongchang announcers

• Amy Trask

• John Shiffin

• Tour of Utah

46:30 - Views from Amy’s perspective & being a “Red Hat”

• Floor booth

• Control Room

• Interview Room

• Pyeongchang Swedish Announcers

• Boxing ringside

• Steph Curry Interview

• Dremond Green Media Day

• At basketball desk

50:40 - Being a stage manager at Anaheim Stadium for the Angels & Mike Trout story

51:45 - Having fun on broadcasts

52:45 - Craziest story for Amy in broadcast tv working in China on Kent Cycling

56:20 - What her brother Michael does working in sports as a college referee and a soccer color analyst

59:05 - What Amy and her boyfriend’s “Check For Bikes” initiative is all about in San Francisco

1:01:05 - How cycling affects Amy with her environmental concerns

1:02:33 - Amy’s most treasured credential

1:03:20 - Amy’s pin collection

1:03:30 - Favorite sports movie

1:04:15 - Episode wrap up

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More Episodes:

Terry Brady - Broadcast Operations Consultant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3Xd4BTrBc&t=120s

David Raymond - The Original Phillie Phanatic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emA-0xQ4jws&t=1439s

Drew Irvine - Game Design Manager, MLB The Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwM9CGHRz_0&t=6s

Marc Rowley - CEO - OwnYourStream.com & Inventor of PylonCam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5cMC3JkdA&t=10s

Brian Williams - Producer/Director, Sports Television & Events - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x43AiW1P2MA

Claudia Trejos - Florida Boxing Hall of Fame, Sports Commentator & Motivational Speaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntXcgXajOw&t=17s

Dave Kroner - VP Creative Services, TV Graphics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnnuu9CdkQ&t=12s

Allyson J. Davis - Partner, Impakt Partners, Sports Marketing, Media & Production Executive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolEaamHx1g

Dave Fanucchi - Author of Tommy Ball book & Ted Collins - Movie Producer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf4gvn8iL8E&t=40s

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00:00 - Episode Introduction

01:45 - How Terry and I met working in the Dominican Baseball League for ESPN (with some pictures)

03:15 - Terry’s thoughts about Dominican Baseball

04:10 - Terry’s memory of visiting with Baseball HOF Pitcher Juan Marichal

05:55 - What an Operations Producer does

07:45 - How Ops Producers are able to save a show and what the preparation is to make sure a show goes off well

09:40 - How Terry got into the sports tv business

14:15 - One of Terry’s first events with ESPN was on the World Cup

14:55 - Terry’s reporting days dealing with sheep

16:40 - Why Terry chose operations instead of other jobs in television

18:50 - When an Operations Producer’s job begins once the network gets the rights to an event

22:12 - Most significant change in tv production from Terry’s perspective

23:55 - How each event dictates what goes into the operations

26:15 - The number of events Terry has worked on outside the U.S. and how tv is the same or different

28: 55 - Of the many high profile sports Terry’s worked on, which is his favorite

33:05 - What an Ops Producer does once the event starts

35:10 - Some notable people Terry has met

36:40 - Meeting the Phillie Phanatic mascot

37:55 - What goes into winning an Emmy from the operations side

39:35 - How the operations department prepares for the worst scenarios

43:55 - How operations teams work in all kinds of weather and need to have the right skills

46:45 - The difference between remote production operations and studio production operations

49:30 - What qualities are good for people to have when working in production operations

51:15 - What his favorite credential is from all of the events he’s worked on

52:45 - Wrap of episode

More Episodes: Dave Raymond, The Original Phillie Phanatic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emA-0xQ4jws&t=1427s

Andrew Irvine, MLB The Show Producer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwM9CGHRz_0&t=3s

Marc Rowley, Inventor of Pylon Cam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5cMC3JkdA&t=9s

Claudia Trejos - Boxing Broadcaster & Hall of Famer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntXcgXajOw&t=10s

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0:00 Episode Introduction

1:50 The meaning of the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series

3:00 How Dave grew up in Maryland and being the son of Hall of Fame College Football Coach Harold “Tubby” Raymond

5:55 Where Dave got his work ethic

7:50 How he became the Phillie Phanatic

11:00 How quickly the Phanatic had success and passing it along to Tom Burgoyne

13:25 Wearing the costume was physically demanding for Dave

17:20 What he did to create, sometimes unintentional, the personality of the Phanatic

22:30 How he developed the character and how Dave drew inspiration from his mother

25:45 What some special moments for Dave was being the Phanatic

32:20 How Dave created mascot characters and how he feels a part of the Phanatic after all these years

35:38 How valuable a mascot can be to a professional sport team and how his company creates them

40:00 What justifies a mascot being paid upwards of $625,000

44:00 How Dave uses the stories of the mascot to help train people how to have fun

49:30 The Tommy Lasorda “incident.”  youtube.com/watch?v=vX4L2LHGs98

52:50 Dave’s relationships with MLB umpires

54:15 His most memorable skit youtube.com/watch?v=kxfA72OTOXA

56:00 His most memorable item from the Phanatic

57:30 Don’s autographed picture of the Phanatic

58:15 Episode Close

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A recap of the first fourteen episodes of Sports In The Making and includes short sections from some of the most memorable responses.

Recap Highlights:

00:00 Introduction to Episode

1:40 Episode 2 - Scott Hecht talking about a make-or-break moment in his tv career

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkgyVd4XSs&t=10s

6:40 Episode 3 - John Howard shares the most intense moment of his career as technical director on the Super Bowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7h2US1BANk&t=8s

10:51 Episode 4 - Chris Farrow talks about how he would find announcers for ESPN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZI3oYGmmo&t=9s

17:10 Episode 5 - Jenny Cavnar shares her experience making Major League Baseball history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ikmvR0Roo&t=13s

24:10 Episode 6 - Paul Kirk on what it was like working Super Bowls in media relations with the Denver Broncos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCYoU335niE&t=11s

31:38 Episode 7 - Carlos Alfonso reluctantly took a Major League Baseball coaching position with the San Francisco Giants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLW109AkKQ&t=16s

34:58 Episode 8 - Dennis Spencer talks about how to get viewers when there is a lot of money spent on media rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-LXqDuqc7c&t=11s

38:10 Episode 9 - Dean Walker's biggest challenge in his career was overseeing the Olympics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74KSqMBujpE&t=13s

42:20 Episode 10 - Jimmy Serrano on how minor league players think about contracts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtq2zVDBQDg&t=7s

44:40 Episode 12 - Ben Bouma shares his story of helping build the Pittsburgh Pirates' stadium and helping a billionaire purchase an NHL team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEfCwuyOqEk&t=77s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1qG2z2Wes&t=13s

55:30 Episode 13 - Brian Nupnau explains how tv truck engineers keep shows on the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHpKlM0yIzY&t=11s

58:30 Episode 14 - Heather Novickis on how building relationships with athletes is important in representing her clients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoO3RZWzEfY&t=13s

1:01:30 Episode 15 - Mary Kate Shea describes what happens the week leading into the Boston Marathon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLh_Bivgbnw&t=11s

1:08:00 Episode 16 - Ato Boldon shares what he learned from Dr. John Carlos about protesting during the 1968 Olympics

1:12:21 Episode 19 - Nick Gismondi on how he found work as an announcer and what an announcer needs to do to create their own opportunities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3nK4MZa7IE&t=14s

1:17:44 Episode Close

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0:00 - Introduction

1:15 - How Drew first thought about getting into sports

3:00 - How he didn’t make the initial cut to work for ESPN as a staff employee but was eventually hired

5:10 - What a remote Production Assistant is at ESPN

6:05 - How he advanced from PA to Associate Producer

7:45 - What an AP’s responsibility is in remote/event production

11:20 - What it took for Drew to get from AP to Producer

12:30 - What role he took in building Longhorn Network

14:10 - His first producing moment

14:45 - How his nerves were producing his first event

15:30 - Some of Drew’s mentors

16:45 - His event that went awry

18:55 - What an ISO producer is

20:40 - Relationship between announcers and producers

22:30 - His thoughts on what makes a good play-by-play announcer, analyst and reporter

25:10 - Drew’s favorite events he’s covered

26:40 - How he started working for PlayStation

29:00 - He was a gamer when he was younger

29:45 - Building a video game for baseball

32:30 - How his current job as Game Design Manager has given him more time to spend with family

33:50 - What influence Drew has made on MLB The Show with the broadcast, announcers and audio

34:30 - How he comes up with ideas for the game and how they get done quickly

35:25 - What changes he’s made for the 2022 MLB The Show version that includes the new announce team

37:40 - How the game was able to get John Sciambi and Chris Singleton as the announcers

41:30 - How they manage the amount of announcer calls within the game

43:00 - Bringing live sports broadcast elements into video games and vice versa

45:40 - How the game looks real

48:00 - What the response to MLB The Show 2022 has been so far & how people react to him when they know he works on the game

49:30 - How Drew can top what he’s doing now on the game

52:05 - Revisiting how people react to him working at MLB The Show

53:30 - How baseball is a part of your life and playing for a men’s adult baseball league, the Bristol Knights

54:10 - Some memorable baseball pictures and statistics of Drew & Don

57:30 - The difference between college football and college baseball as far as the intensity

59:50 - What Drew’s first credential was working live sports television

1:01:05 - His favorite movie

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00:00 - Introduction

• 01:39 - How a camera falling on Marc’s head got him into television
• 3:44 - How ESPN Coordinating Producer Chris Farrow (SITM Guest #4) hired Marc offered him a job
• 5:04 - What Marc’s early career jobs were including editing, pulling cable, etc.
• 6:35 - What the process of getting a job at ESPN was like when Marc went to work there which included 3 primary things
• 8:36 - Marc’s thoughts on taking initiative and following up
• 9:00 - How he got into the CERN super collider in Switzerland
• 9:35 - What Marc produced at ESPN early in his producing career
• 11:34 - A partial list of Marc’s accolades while at ESPN
• 12:25 - How he started down the technology path
• 13:20 - Marc’s real mission with technology was to try to solve problems
• 15:10 - What one of the biggest lessons Marc learned when trying to make things happen in the technology space
• 16:38 - What he does when pitching new ideas to supervisors and to people in general
• 18:30 - How Marc and Don met and how the SportsCenter “Rundown” graphic came about
• 23:15 - What goes into building projects involving technology and the process of getting teams together
• 25:25 - How he became known as the Get “Stuff” Done guy at ESPN
• 26:15 - How playing video games has helped Marc in his career and how they are beneficial for the mind
• 28:30 - What some of the innovations Marc had prior to inventing the PylonCam and how it had nothing to do with technology
• 30:35 - What the role of graphics producer was before Marc and a coworker created that role
• 31:40 - Marc was the first e-sports producer at ESPN
• 33:10 - His thoughts on e-sports now
• 33:50 - Launching ESPN’s drone racing coverage as its first producer
• 34:40 - Continuing his accolades with first live 360 virtual reality use in Monday Night Football
• 35:50 - How the Emmy nominated PylonCam started
• 45:05 - Marc believes in giving up an idea to help create something bigger and how Pride can negatively affect a project
• 46:15 - How Legos are an important part of Marc’s life and being creative
• 50:35 - What the value of a Lego is for someone, even if they don’t work at ESPN
• 52:00 - How many inventions Marc has and how many things he touched at ESPN
• 54:30 - Marc holds a patent for minting Video in blockchain
• 56:30 - What NFT’s are, what minting video is and how it can benefit creators
• 1:03:45 - What the future is for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), MojoVision
• 1:06:15 - What Marc things the future of the Metaverse is
• 1:07:40 - Why Mempoverse is the technology to watch
• 1:11:10 - What the future of this technology is for sports
• 1:13:05 - How AR can affect wagering
• 1:14:25 - How data can be beneficial for storytelling
• 1:16:40 - How long the brain can read a graphic on screen
• 1:17:50 - What the coolest memorabilia Marc has
• 1:19:30 - What the importance is on inviting people to eat lunch

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00:00 - Intro to Episode

01:50 - How Brian got into sports broadcasting

03:30 - What sports USA Network covered in the 1980’s

06:50 - How as a producer Brian is connected to each aspect of the production

08:50 - How he manages broadcasting shows around the world

10:27 - What a control room monitor wall looks like and what he looks at

12:50 - How complicated a production can be when sending it to the world

15:40 - How much prep work is necessary to make a production

17:10 - What Brian’s job was on the 2022 US Open Tennis

18:40 - Chris Evert’s last match and how the coverage compared to Serena Williams’ last match at the US Open

21:00 - How technology has advanced coverage of sporting events

22:20 - A selection of photos of Brian and his talent and crew and what they mean to a production and what the crew’s role was at the 2022 US Open

25:40 - Relationship between producers and announcers

32:50 - Listening is key in producing an event when working with announcers

34:40 - How the crew also contributes by listening and selling shots or information

35:45 - How the crew is valuable to the production such as a Stage Manager and playback operator

37:15 - Brian at the British Open, The Old Course at St. Andrews

38:10 - Coverage of Tiger Woods in 2014 at Royal Liverpool British Open

40:55 - Brian’s experience with Tiger Woods before he won his first Masters in 1997

43:45 - How Brian had to negotiate with Earl Woods, Tiger’s father to complete the documentary

45:40 - What Brian’s experience was playing golf with Tiger Woods

48:15 - How Brian was a part of the Women’s College Tennis Hall of Fame and being friends with Billie Jean King

50:35 - What some of Brian’s most memorable events he’s produced

53:15 - His experience when the bombing happened at the 2013 Boston Marathon

57:00 - Producing ESPN’s “The Impossible Jump” with Mike Metzger and Evil Knievel

1:01:20 - A signed poster of “The Impossible Jump”

1:01:50 - Developing relationships with celebrities and announcers

1:03:50 - Brian’s favorite sports movie

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• 00:00 - Episode Introduction
• 02:25 - Introduction to Claudia Trejos and how she got into sports broadcasting
• 03:40 - How boxing is a part of her life
• 05:30 - How Claudia’s passion for sports is important for how she works in her career
• 07:20 - How Claudia has a presence that makes an impact on her performance in the boxing industry despite “imposter syndrome”
• 10:28 - She has worked from the ground up in TV, pulling cable, production assistant, grip and how it helps her to have confidence as an on-air personality
• 13:20 - How she prepares for a big fight like the Canelo vs. GGG event in September 2020
• 16:50 - How she is able to develop relationships with elite athletes that helps with her on-air storytelling
• 20:10 - Claudia shares examples of how boxers are human and how Anthony Joshua lost a big fight he was expected to win
• 22:40 - She explains why she has so much respect for Olympic athletes
• 26:30 - Her observation from the 2016 Olympics and the camaraderie with Olympic athletes
• 27:05 - Each of our Olympic experiences
• 28:05 Whether there is a difference covering sports in Spanish versus English
• 31:00 - How being a Latina helps her approach athletes
• 33:30 - How it feels for Claudia being inducted into the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame
• 38:00 - Bob Alexander who she’s worked with ringside, called her name at the FBHOF
• 39:05 - Whether Claudia’s daughter wants to follow her career in broadcasting
• 40:25 - How she started being a motivational speaker and coach
• 43:05 - How she helps people find ways to motivate themselves as a coach
• 46:15 - How Claudia is able to talk to celebrities and athletes when they are perceived as untouchable
• 50:42 - Memorable pictures that Claudia shares
• 54:00 - How Claudia is a cigar aficionado and how she grew up learning how to smoke cigars
• 57:30 - Claudia rates the cigars I have in my “humidor”
• 59:00 - Claudia’s cigar collection
• 1:01:20 - Claudia’s best memory she’s had in sports
• 1:03:10 - Claudia’s favorite sports movie
• 1:05:00 - Her memory of the time we shared producing events

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00:00 - Intro to Episode #27

01:30 - How Dave Kroner got into sports television

02:58 - What Dave wanted to do as a career in sports television

04:20 - What he has seen change over the years with the graphics technology

08:20 - The different types of graphics used on sports tv broadcasts

11:12 - Dave’s role as Sr. Graphics Developer at ESPN

13:30 - How graphics is different internationally

16:12 - Differences working with global sports networks versus regional

19:00 - What goes into designing an on-air graphics look and the relationship with the client

22:15 - What Dave’s process was for creating the Sports In The Making insert graphics look

25:05 - How Dave created the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) graphics look

29:20 - Dave explains the designs that went into creating Marquee’s bug graphics

31:30 - The relationship between the producer, graphics producer and graphics person

35:45 - What went into ESPN’s now defunct 3D graphics package

37:30 - The most memorable graphics package that Dave has worked on in his career

39:00 - How Dave has been able to see the world by working in sports graphics departments

40:10 - How Dave created a company called Xtreme Ninja Challenge (ENC), an obstacle course

45:00 - What ENC is about for participants

47:10 - What Dave would like viewers to know about what graphics does

49:20 - What memorabilia Dave has that is special to him

51:10 - Dave’s favorite sports movie

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00:00:00 Introduction To Allyson J. Davis

00:01:30 What Allyson is doing currently

00:01:55 What her responsibilities are as a marketing executive

00:04:20 How the media landscape has changed with marketing

00:06:35 How Allyson got into sports and then went into the marketing side of the business

00:09:25 How important it is for someone to love sports when working in sports

00:10:05 How she got started working in sports media

00:14:35 How she became the Director of Marketing for Fox Sports in Los Angeles

00:15:10 What goes into branding and rebranding a sports network

00:17:00 What goes into marketing a sports network outside of what we see on television

00:18:45 How marketing returning to a grass roots level again and digital is in a bit of disarray

00:20:30 Where ideas for marketing campaigns come from

00:22:30 The way marketing has been done in the past few years is now changing because of privacy concerns and making connections with people without technology

00:25:05 What a garden wall is for content and marketing

00:28:55 How different E! Entertainment was from sports

00:30:30 Some of the challenges being an entrepreneur with her own marketing agency

00:32:30 How Allyson got back into sports and started working at Universal Sports Network

00:37:45 How important networking is in this (and any) industry

00:41:15 What Universal Sports Network was for viewers and what it meant to Allyson

00:43:55 How athletes qualified for the Olympics and watching on USN; some of the things viewers would see on the network

00:46:55 How Allyson marketed USN to drive viewers with marquis events such as Rugby World Cup and the Boston Marathon

00:49:30 How the 2013 tragedy of the Boston Marathon affected marketing efforts

00:51:50 Photos of the 2014 Boston Marathon (on the video podcast)

00:52:40 How the production and marketing team came together to help in the healing process

00:54:45 What VP of Integrated Marketing is with Red Bull and what some of those responsibilities were

00:57:00 What the difference is between a brand and marketing

00:57:50 What responsibilities are of a VP/Executive

00:59:10 What she’s doing with cycling with her new position at Impact Partners

01:00:10 Photos of tv truck at Boston Marathon

01:01:00 How she connected with the documentary on the Women’s Tour de France

01:07:10 What the difference between the men’s version of the Tour de France and the women’s version

01:11:30 What the response to this year’s edition of the Women’s Tour de France was

01:13:22 Distribution strategy of the documentary, “Uphill Climb” and what the mission of the documentary is about

01:14:40 What will be in the film

01:15:35 What Impakt Partners is all about

1:18:20 How important sports are for women in the C-Suite

01:19:15 Allyson’s favorite sports movies

01:20:30 Allyson’s advice for people who want to get into sports marketing

01:22:30 Thanks & Wrap Up

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00:00 - Episode 25 introduction

00:45 - Introduction to Dave Fanucchi and how he began his career in sports.

03:35 - Introduction to Ted Collins and how he began his career in movie producing

09:30 - Ted Collins Working with Women of Wrestling (WOW), owned by Jeannie Buss, Owner of the Los Angeles Lakers

11:50 - What Women of Wrestling is about in 2022 and future years.

13:15 - How Dave Fanucchi got started with the USA Baseball Team as the Director of Communications in 1999, just as professional baseball players were allowed to participate in the Olympic Games.

15:00 - Hall of Fame baseball manager Tommy Lasorda being introduced as the manager of the team.

16:12 - Team USA were underdogs against Korea, Japan and Cuba.

17:30 - How the idea for the book happened.

19:30 - How Dave was able to pitch the story to a movie producer.

22:20 - How Dave met Ted in Tommy Lasorda’s office.

24:00 - Ted was hooked on the idea of producing this film because of it’s underdog element.

26:10 - General public doesn’t know about how significant Team USA Baseball’s accomplishment was.

27:50 - What it means to “option” a book in order to make a movie.

29:30 - The type of movie Dave, Ted and the players want to make.

31:20 - The challenge of making a movie is having enough obstacles and drama to place into the script.

32:40 - Stories that didn’t make the book that could be part of the movie.

34:45 - The stories that Tommy Lasorda would tell while Dave was around him for 6 weeks.

36:30 - How that experience for Dave was one of the highlights of his career.

36:30 - My personal video clip of Tommy Lasorda talking to NYY outfielder Bernie Williams in the Dominican Republic and how getting any photos or video in the early 2000’s was not as easy as today.

41:20 - How and who Ted would like to cast for Tommy Lasorda’s role.

44:00 - How Ted envisions what the film will be in terms of the characters, the decisions that USA Baseball made and the environment at the time.

46:00 - How Dave perspective of being behind the doors helped him write the book and how Lasorda made the players believe they were going to win Gold.

47:30 - How this film will not be a Disney-type movie.

49:30 - Why Ted wants the movie to be called “Tommy Ball.”

50:45 - What some of the challenges are in getting a movie green-lit.

53:26 - How Ted is navigating the studios in making this movie.

54:15 - Who Ted thinks should portray Dave Fanucchi in the movie and if studios are interested in distributing the film.

56:20 - How Ted wasn’t afraid to approach actors at the 2022 MLB All Star Game.

58:00 - How Don and Dave knew each other from the minor league baseball team they worked at in Arizona.

Twitter:

@davefanucci

@grittyfilmproductions

@sportsmaking

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfanucchi/

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• 2:28 - How Andy got his start as a sportswriter.
• 4:46 - How he was able to get his articles published when he was blogger and didn’t have a journalism degree.
• 6:42 - How he got his first article published on ESPN.com Page 2 covering “Fistball”.
• 9:13 - Whether he had any insecurities in pitching his next stories to sports digital publications and how relationships can help him get interviews.
• 11:54 - How Andy finds interesting people to interview.
• 16:00 - How Andy looks at doing interviews to find interesting things to talk about.
• 19:27 - What his methods are to help open up the interviewee to talk.
• 23:10 - What his interview with boxing trainer Teddy Atlas was like and some of what he talked about in their conversation.
• 26:21 - How he got a surprise response from Teddy him when talking about Mike Tyson.
• 28:28 - His conversation and thoughts on soccer broadcaster Andres Cantor, known for his "Goooooooool" call.
• 29:48 - His conversation and thoughts on professional basketball legend Julius "Dr. J" Irving.
• 32:07 - His conversation and thoughts on professional golfer Annika Sorenstam.
• 35:53 - His conversation and thoughts on former Oakland Raiders great quarterback Jim Plunkett.
• 38:01 - How Andy comes up with his stories, interviews and what his angle is when writing.
• 41:32 - How he prepares for an interview and how much time he has to spend with those he's interviewing.
• 43:51 - Who some of his sports writing influences have been.
• 46:12 - What advice he has for someone who wants to be a sportswriter.
• 50:05 - An introduction to Andy's new podcast "28 Minutes of Sport"
• 51:27 - Where people can find out more about Andy's articles.

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• 2:56 - What Abe’s been doing during Covid.
• 4:35 - How Abe started his Chocolate Chip Cookie business.
• 5:39 - How his cookies have become very popular at rodeos.
• 6:46 - What the secret recipe for his cookies are.
• 8:03 - How Abe started bull riding as a young kid in New Jersey.
• 9:45 - When did he realize he wanted to ride bulls as a career.
• 10:35 - How he was perceived in rodeo as a black bull rider and how some of the football players reacted to him being in rodeo.
• 13:31 - How the football team reacted when they came to watch him.
• 15:32 - When a student wrote an article on Abe, how he handled it.
• 17:52 - The night after the newspaper article came out Abe had a rodeo and he had to walk through a cheering group.
• 20:05 - What Abe’s experience was like in the rodeo culture being the only black man on the professional circuit.
• 22:48 - How Abe felt that the judges may have had some prejudice when judging his rides.
• 25:54 - How some of the best African American bull riders may have helped influence how he rode bulls.
• 27:34 - How in an individual sport Abe and other cowboys travel from rodeo to rodeo.
• 30:14 - What does wearing a buckle mean to a bull rider?
• 33:09 - What the future is for black cowboys in the sport.
• 34:22 - On whether there was any interest in bull riding by black cowboys.
• 36:51 - How Abe got his Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Announcers Card to announce rodeos and how he began working for Prime Sports Network and Fox Sports
• 38:31 - How he called rodeo events as an announcer.
• How he worked with some of the great bull riders of all time (Tuff Hedeman, Ty Murray, Gary Leffew, Cody Custer) including Lane Frost who the movie “8-seconds” was made after.
• 40:19 - Abe was one of the last people to interview Lane Frost before he was killed by a bull.
• 42:12 - He explains what happened before and after.
• 45:17 - How Abe feels like he contributed to educating fans about rodeo.
• 46:48 - What should fans pay attention to when they attend a rodeo or on television and how technique is a key factor for riding a bull effectively.
• 49:14 - Abe lists some of the great current bull riders in the PBR and the PRCA.
• 50:18 - What Abe’s book, “My Cowboy Hat Still Fits” is about.
• 52:09 - What went into writing Abe’s book.
• 54:57 - How he’s planning on another autobiography and how he’s focusing on his cookie business.
• 57:22 - How his cookie sell out quickly at rodeo events.
• 58:52 - Best advice Abe’s been given as a bull rider and an author.
• 1:01:54 - Best advice he can give on managing multiple projects.

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Steve Porino in a Tree (NBC Olympics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96tXdONcGAE&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1v7j0VXXzTxO74NpLrbeIlS_FYa_jMJLArPMh6YW0HreieyDb3t7c5tVA

"The D Route":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFW4aKYnaPI

• 1:43 - What Steve has been doing during Covid-19
• 4:26 - How he made the US Ski Team as a downhill skier
• 7:02 - What the difference in talent is between an amateur and someone who is on the US Ski Team and how hundredths of seconds can make the difference between winning and being way off the podium.
• 9:23 - What the different ski disciplines are: Downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom (GS) and Slalom and how US Ski Great Bill Johnson described some of them.
• 13:58 - What makes Bill Johnson, Bode Miller, Ted Ligety, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin stand out differently than other skiers Steve has covered.
• 15:04 - Steve talks about Bode Miller’s talents, being an innovator and covering him during the Olympics.
• 19:15 - He talks about what made Lindsey Vonn special as a downhill racer.
• 23:23 - How Mikaela Shiffrin may have an opportunity to elevate alpine skiing in the US.
• 26:06 - How “burger school” helped Steve make the transition into broadcasting.
• 30:44 - How broadcasting can be challenging to make viewers understand something that’s complex and how he’s worked to simplify his announcing.
• 33:27 - What Steve things about when he’s covering the Olympics versus a World Cup race.
• 36:50 - How Steve became the motorcycle reporter on NBC’s coverage of The Tour de France.
• 42:28 - What his responsibilities are each day during Le Tour.
• 49:04 - How Steve describes what it’s like riding behind the peloton and a brief description on the anatomy of a peloton.
• 53:12 - How the caravan that follows the peloton is like a competition within a competition.
• 54:46 - What Steve’s responsibility is when there is a crash in the race and how he adjusts his coverage.
• 57:28 - What it’s like working with one of the most iconic cycling announcers in history, Phil Liggett
• 1:00:08 - How losing cycling announcer Paul Sherwin, another cycling great, was a big loss on the tv production and how he had a great sense of humor.
• 1:03:06 - Phil and Paul were one of the best broadcasting announcer combinations known throughout the world.
• 1:04:57 - What makes NBC’s coverage of the Tour de France special with the production and broadcast team.
• 1:10:56 - What some of the most memorable cycling moments Steve has had in his broadcasting experience that involved Chris Froome.
• 1:16:04 - What the best advice Steve has gotten working in the sports industry.
• 1:20:27 - When we will see Steve Porino again in the Covid era.

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• 2:29 - What the responsibilities of a thoroughbred horse trainer are.
• 3:57 - How much he was around his dad, Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg, when he was young.
• 5:08 - Why Tom wanted to study aerospace engineering instead of following his father into the thoroughbred world and his post college experiences.
• 9:07 - How Tom likes to bring people into the horse racing world to show them what it’s like rather than tell them.
• 11:33 - How Jack Van Berg got his work ethic and how he would make anyone feel comfortable.
• 13:53 - How Tom describes his dad as a “dad.”
• Chris Kotulakauthored a book called “Jack, From Grit To Glory, The True Story of Jack Van Berg, an American Horse Racing Legend.” Tom talks about how the book affected him in painting a better picture of his dad.
• 17:22 - What Tom learned most about training horses from his dad.
• 20:35 - How Tom applies his dad’s philosophy in how he trains horses today and the differences than when Jack was at the peak of his career.
• 22:17 - What a typical day/week is for a horse trainer.
• 24:29 - What a horse trainer’s team looks like in helping to make a thoroughbred successful.
• 27:15 - How the horse racing industry is mostly made up of people who have grown up in the business.
• 29:49 - How a horse trainer works the business and ownership groups.
• 33:26 - What the Covid-19 situation is for horse owners & trainers
• 39:08 - How Tom’s been able to work within Covid-19 limitations.
• 43:43 - What Tom’s biggest win was in his training career.
• 48:22 - How Jack Van Berg still makes his presence known with Tom and the horse racing community.
• 53:00 - On whether Tom is brave enough to make a prediction on if any of his horses will win the Kentucky Derby.
• 55:00 - The difficulty on training a horse to be a Kentucky Derby contender.
• 59:49 - How Tom loves to get people involved in horse racing.
• 1:02:42 - How much care goes into training the horses.
• 1:05:12 - Best advice Tom has been given working in this industry.
• 1:06:17 - How a fan should watch horse racing either at the track or on television.
• 1:09:32 - The color of Van Berg Stables silk colors.

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• 1:43 - What Dan Lyle does as Director of Rugby for Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)
• 3:22 - What the differences are between Rugby and American Football and the history of how rugby started.
• 7:11 - What each position does in Rugby Sevens.
• 8:32 - What positions do in Rugby Union.
• 9:43 - Why Dan decided to pursue professional rugby outside of the United States instead of American football with the Minnesota Vikings.
• 14:15 - Was it a culture shock to play rugby overseas.
• 16:25 - What the history of rugby is for the United States and how it fits in with rugby’s origin.
• 20:14 - How women are embracing rugby and why they are passionate about it.
• 22:02 - What the differences of tackling in rugby and American sports and how rugby tackling has been successful for NFL and Collegiate coaches.
• 25:19 - What some of the cultures are in rugby, including the “Haka”
• 25:59 - How there is a culture within the game of rugby.
• 28:44 - How Dan is able to grow help rugby in the U.S.
• 32:28 - Finding the face of rugby in the US with current cross over players.
• 35:28 - What the future of rugby is like in the US.
• 37:57 - What the challenges are to get new fans excited about rugby.
• 41:04 - How AEG is in the business of creating sports properties
• 42:14 - How Dan became the rugby analyst for NBC Sports.
• 44:35 - What Dan’s recommendation is for someone new to rugby who wants to learn the game.
• 46:59 - Who were some of the best rugby players Dan has seen in his lifetime.
• 50:25 - What Dan’s perspective is on the movie “Invictus,” starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
• 51:56 - How the movie and real-life events affected Dan and his view on how it affected society.
• 54:03 - What Dan would like people to know about rugby that they might not otherwise know.
• 55:54 - What the best advice Dan has been given working in sports.
• 58:33 - How people can find out more about rugby in the United States.

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2:00 - Welcome to Nick Gismondi

2:45 - What Nick has been doing since Covid-19 disrupted sports.

4:23 - What it’s like working as an announcer for the Chicago Blackhawks, one of the Original Six NHL teams.

7:15 - What it’s like as the rink side reporter for the Blackhawks. 7:51 > 8:45

11:17 - How he came to love hockey & the NHL and how he got into sports broadcasting.

15:25 - How a chance meeting at Los Angeles International Airport changed his broadcasting career.

19:43 - How it takes tenacity to work in sports broadcasting as an on-air personality.

23:08 - Nick talks about his formula for building relationships.

26:33 - How Nick has developed relationships with celebrities, athletes and people in sports.

28:18 - What Nick does for World Team Tennis on CBS

31:06 - How the WTT show “Up Next with Nick Gismondi” began.

33:02 - Future guests on “Up Next with Nick Gismondi.”

34:45 - How Nick is able to connect with fans.

38:27 - Nick shares an anecdote working with Olympic Gold Medalist Dan Jansen while covering speed skating.

40:54 - What Nick’s future is for announcing.

41:56 - How Nick prepare to call a sport or event he’s never covered.

43:52 - What makes a good sports tv producer.

47:49 - Nick is in a military family and he talks about the relationship with sports and the military.

50:20 - What Nick would like people to know about what he does that they might not otherwise know.

51:43 - What the best advice he’s been given in the sports broadcasting industry.

53:20 - What rewards there are working in sports broadcasting.

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• 01:41 - What makes social media so powerful.
• 03:47 - How social media has changed with sports networks in the last 5-7 years.
• 07:24 - How Aaron started in sports social media.
• 10:58 - How NBA on TNT, NBA TV, Bleacher Report and NFL Network handle their social media efforts.
• 15:08 - How getting social media correct is extremely important when publishing.
• 18:46 - How he uses his journalism skills to make social media posts effective.
• 21:38 - What the difference is working for a sports organization and running his own company.
• 23:41 - How important strategy is for brands in growing followers, getting out content and crisis management.
• 25:57 - Who he works with and how he helps them with social media.
• 29:49 - How to create a strategy in promoting content such as the Sports In The Making podcast.
• 33:15 - What some of the most common mistakes people make when using social media.
• 35:10 - What some of the best social media campaigns Aaron has seen.
• 39:02 - How many professional athletes run their own social media accounts and how lesser known athletes manage theirs.
• 44:27 - What the future possibilities are for social media and how influencers have impacted some platforms.
• 48:10 - What the most important thing anyone using social media should know.
• 50:12 - For more information about Aaron and Eisman Digital, contact @eismandigital

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• 2:30 - How Covid-19 has affected the eSports industry.
• 3:22 - Kris Dahl is Principal at Atomic - What Atomic does and how it affects eSports.
• 4:41 - What Patrick Barthe’s responsibilities are with Atomic
• 5:13 - How Atomic started.
• 6:18 - What eSports is, how it’s grown and the importance of it now.
• 8:13 - How eSports has affected broadcast networks since the pandemic.
• 10:08 - What some of the challenges are in covering eSports events.
• 12:44 - How Atomic finds clients and how Atomic puts the productions together.
• 15:49 - How technology for eSports affects the productions.
• 17:35 - What some of the gaming titles are.
• 18:58 - What the viewing numbers tell us on the potential for eSports.
• 21:04 - How much gamers can earn in competitions.
• 22:43 - How eSports can affect culture.
• 24:53 - What some of the drawbacks eSports can have.
• 26:42 - If eSports could have a future in the Olympics.
• 29:36 - How anti-doping is evident in eSports
• 32:19 - What kinds of innovations Atomic has been a part of and how they work with game developers to cover the events using technology.
• 34:13 - How Atomic makes creative innovations happen.
• 36:23 - What the future for youth is with gaming.
• 39:30 - What the most successful or notable event Atomic has been a part of.
• 42:14 - What they would like sports fans to know about eSports that they may not know.
• 44:45 - How people can find out more about Atomic.

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• 2:15 - Reflecting on the International Olympic Committee’s decision to delay the Games to 2021
• 2:48 - How the postponed Games will affect Olympic athletes.
• 4:32 - What challenges Olympic athletes have keeping their mental focus.
• 5:37 - If he were coaching these athletes, how he would help keep their mental states intact for an additional year.
• 8:17 - Could the Olympics fall back to every four years as it had in the past for both Summer and Winter.
• 9:09 - Ato Boldon’s career accomplishments
• 10:12 - How Ato started as a sprinter.
• 11:45 - If Ato ever thought he would have as many accomplishments as he’s had.
• 13:23 - Other than athletic ability, determination and work ethic, what additional ingredient an Olympic Athlete needs to have.
• 15:15 - How “swagger” or confidence played into Ato’s athletic career.
• 18:48 - What the most memorable Olympic event he ever competed in.
• 19:57 - If he was intimidated running against Michael Johnson in the 200m at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
• 23:08 - The medal Ato is most proud of.
• 24:16 - How Ato shares the story of not giving up to his athletes.
• 25:57 - How he became an aviation pilot, how he still flies and what kinds of planes he flies.
• 29:11 - How Ato got his start in sports broadcasting as a track & field analyst.
• 31:59 - How he was pushed to attend the IAAF World Championships when he was injured and how the BBC gave him a taste of broadcasting.
• 33:45 - How he developed and progressed as an announcer.
• 36:43 - How as an analyst he criticizes or praises athletes while on the air.
• 39:41 - How criticizing athletes when it’s warranted helps with his credibility and how he prides himself on being straight forward with his commentary.
• 41:18 - What methods Ato has when preparing for a broadcast.
• 45:50 - How he became part of the NBC NASCAR production team.
• 46:53 - What the best part of being a broadcast analyst and the worst part.
• 48:44 - How Ato got into coaching with Khalifa St. Fort of Trinidad & Tobago.
• 50:53 - On coaching Olympic hopeful and IAAF Junior World Champion Brianna Williams of Jamaica.
• 52:35 - What Ato’s criteria is for coaching athletes.
• 54:48 - What his approach to coaching is.
• 56:43 - How coaching helps his broadcasting and how broadcasting helps his coaching.
• 59:58 - How football players aren’t fundamentally sound when they are running.
• 1:02:01 - How he has to find the balance of criticizing an athlete as a broadcaster when he is on-air as an analyst.
• 1:04:28 - What the difference is being an athlete and being a coach when earning accomplishments or having success.
• 1:07:11 - What Ato learned from civil rights activist and 1968 Olympic Bronze Medalist John Carlos when he interviewed him for NBC’s “Bring The Fire” feature story.
• 1:09:55 - How NBC producer Jack Felling utilizes former athletes/broadcasters to interview athletes and why.
• 1:11:13 - What Ato would like sports fans to know about what he does.

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• 2:34 - What Mary Kate Shea does in her role as Senior Director with John Hancock.
• 3:27 - How she got to John Hancock and what the company’s role is with the Boston Marathon.
• 5:09 - How she was able to make this career and her background on marathons.
• 09:36 - 2013 was the first year she took the reigns of the Boston Marathon’s elite athletes and a treetops view of what her job entails including checking the athletes on race day.
• 10:55 - Meg Keflezhigi checking in and on his bib he honored those that died in the bombing tragedy.
• 13:00 - What the energy was like in 2014, the year after the bombing.
• 15:04 - What makes an event like the Boston Marathon special from other sports and other races.
• 16:27 - How much the Boston Marathon and John Hancock has raised for charity.
• 17:58 - What her process for selecting elite athletes is like leading up to this year’s (2020) Boston Marathon.
• 21:26 - Some elite athletes have amazing stories about what they’ve done with their victories.
• 22:23 - How well she is able to know the elite athletes and how she’s developed relationships.
• 24:16 - How winning the Boston Marathon is a life changing event and one of the memorable gifts she’s received from an elite athlete.
• 25:44 - What the 48 hours before a race is like.
• 28:14 - A question she always asks the elite athletes when checking in on Marathon Monday.
• 28:44 - What happens on the journey to Hopkington, the start of the Boston Marathon.
• 30:39 - After the elite athletes start, what she does to get back to the finish line.
• 32:18 - John Hancock’s training program.
• 33:11 - Her most memorable moments in Boston Marathon history.  Meb’s win, the weather in 2018 and the surprise in the women’s field.
• 35:34 - How she recruited eventual Boston Marathon Champion, Yuki Kawauchi.
• 38:57 - What it meant for her that Meb and Des ended the drought for American runners in the Boston Marathon.
• 41:19 - How she views Push Rim Athlete Tatyana McFadden.
• 42:00 - Tatyana McFadden’s rival, Manuela Schar.
• 42:32 - Men’s Push Rim Athlete Daniel Romanchuck.
• 42:32 - Comparing the Boston Marathon to other marathon races.
• 44:41 - What these words or phrases mean to Mary Kate Shea:
  • Hopkington
  • Scream Tunnel at Wellesley College
  • Newton Fire Station
  • Heartbreak Hill
• 46:41 - How she helps the elite runners scout Heartbreak Hill
  • Turning onto Boylston Street toward the finish line
  • Crossing the Finish Line
  • Celebrating after the race
• 48:59 - What Mary Kate would like people to know about the Boston Marathon that they might not otherwise know.

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• 2:31 - What Heather does as a Sports Athlete Agent
• 3:29 - When she knew being an agent is what she wanted to do.
• 6:13 - What she liked about work with Gold Medal Management.
• 8:19 - How storytelling is important in representing traditional or Olympic athletes rather than mainstream athletes.
• 9:35 - How Heather builds relationships and trust with athletes.
• 11:21 - Expectations athletes should have when working with an agent.
• 13:37 - How Human Interest Group finds brands that looks at an athlete’s qualities for sponsorship.
• 16:30 - How HIG finds its athletes for representation.
• 20:46 - How Pararlympic athletes are getting better opportunities for sponsorships and branding.
• 23:39 - How Olympic Rule #40 affects athletes when they are participating in the Olympic Games.
• 27:35 - What she learned working for Gold Medal Management, Octagon and IMG to help launch her own company, Kinetic Sports Management and how she arrived at Human Interest Group.
• 31:13 - What success Heather has experienced for her clients.
• 36:13 - How companies are strategizing to find the right athletes to be brand ambassadors.
• 38:22 - What the future of women is for companies wanting to brand.
• 40:22 - What keeps Heather driven to stay in this industry.
• 42:27 - What the craziest experience Heather has had working in this industry.
• 46:48 - How she has worked with women endurance athletes
• 48:05 - What advice Heather has for someone wanting to work in the sports agent industry.
• 50:59 - What sacrifices Heather has to make as an athlete agent.
• 52:20 - Heather explains why she loves being a sports agent.
• 54:19 - Best advice Heather has been given working in this industry.
• 55:36 - Heather explains if many people are interested in being an agent.
• 59:36 - How she was one of the first two women agents in the Olympic space.
• 1:01:09 - How people can find out more about Human Interest Group

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• 3:26 - What Brian does as Manager of Engineers at Game Creek Video.
• 4:20 - What a television truck is made up of.
• 5:33 - How much mobile television trucks cost.
• 6:32 - How trucks are custom built for sports networks.
• 8:08 - How the trucks are planned for which event and how they are integrated. together.
• 10:43 - Planning ESPN’s MegaCast College Football National Championship.
• 12:29 - How much dedication an tv truck engineer puts into a production.
• 13:38 - How working in mobile television is like a brotherhood.
• 14:47 - How much influence with the networks when putting on a major sporting event.
• 16:55 - What a truck engineer’s responsibility entails.
• 18:17 - How they maintain the tv truck when a piece of equipment breaks.
• 19:56 - How he’s able to manage demanding producers and directors.
• 20:38 - How Brian started in the tv business when he was 8 years old.
• 22:15 - How he worked with news networks all over the world as a teenager.
• 23:08 - How Brian started working on major events.
• 24:44 - Brian was hired the same day of an event when another engineer had quit.
• 25:44 - Most challenging event Brian has ever been a part of.
• 29:55 - How engineers can save the show with technical problems.
• 30:32 - How he’s had to literally put out fires on a tv production.
• 32:46 - How Game Creek plans for productions that are not near a big city.
• 34:16 - What events Brian has worked in his career.
• 35:29 - What the differences between sports, political and entertainment events are.
• 36:55 - How many trucks are in Game Creek’s fleet.
• 37:25 - How Game Creek tv trucks are named.
• 38:48 - How each tv truck has a “personality” and how Brian adjusts to it.
• 39:39 - When a “Gremlin” make it difficult to maintain the equipment on a truck.
• 40:20 - What the best thing about what Brian does as a mobile tv truck engineer.
• 41:29 - Best accomplishment of his career.
• 42:06 - What’s it’s like being a truck engineer for anyone who is interested in this industry.
• 44:08 - What qualities an aspiring engineer should have.
• 44:49 - How someone can find out more about Game Creek Video’s apprenticeship program.
• 46:32 - What some of the advantages of being a truck engineer are.
• 47:32 - What the next big event is for Brian and what to keep in mind for that event. (recorded prior to the cancellation of sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic)
• 49:33 - Brian shares a funny story working on auto racing.
• 51:39 - What he would like sports fans to know about the industry he works in.

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• 2:09 - How he helped the Pittsburgh Steelers build their baseball PNC park.
• 5:29 - How he was able to get a new arena built for the Penn State hockey program.
• 10:12 - How Ben helped billionaire Terry Pegula buy the NHL Buffalo Sabres team.
• 13:52 - How the media tries to know what goes on in sports franchise deals.
• 15:55 - How negotiations happen between all parties to buy a sports franchise.
• 17:17 - Ben’s involvement in the group that wanted to purchase the Arizona Coyotes.
• 23:53 - When the deal for the Coyotes fell through, how Ben and his group had a good chance to land an NHL team in the Seattle market.
• 27:54 - His advice to anyone that wants to buy a sports franchise.
• 29:33 - How the sports franchise fees have escalated.
• 31:00 - Why buying a sports franchise are a difficult financial decision based on valuations for anyone who wants to purchase one.
• 33:33 - What his thought are for franchise opportunities for the XFL and if the NFL should invest in the league.
• 38:30 - How Ben is able to make connections and build relationships with influential people in sports and how former Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Jim Leyland helped him relate to people.
• 43:41 - Ben served on the board of directors of the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) and how he views the progress of that league is.
• 48:46 - How the NHL lockout affected their rights deal with ESPN and how NBC partnered with them.
• 51:00 - Where Ben sees women in sports today and his working relationship with Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football.
• 54:25 - How the days of listening to broadcasting legends are nearly over and how there are more opportunities for women to make an impact in broadcasting.
• 57:29 - Advice Ben has been given in his career.
• 58:55 - What tool Ben uses to help him identify how to succeed.

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• 4:21 - What Ben Bouma’s title is and how he can’t fit into a title.
• 6:10 - How Ben got into sports television and how he connected with broadcaster Kenny Albert.
• 11:40 - How he started producing NHL games for Fox Sports and then later with ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball.
• 14:03 - What his responsibilities were as a sidelines producer, who he started working with and how he prepared for his responsibilities as a sidelines producer.
• 16:15 - How it’s nearly impossible to have a perfect show.
• 17:11 - How Ben builds relationships with his announcers and how important trust is with the announcer.
• 19:21 - What some of the qualities the best announcers in the business have and how they prepare for events.
• 21:18 - How the announce team handles blunders.
• 24:26 - A listing of Ben’s credentials and all of the major events he’s been a part of and which event(s) he has an emotional connection with. (2004 World Series & 2010 Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Final)
• 29:28 - How as a field producer he handles the “scrum” at the end of the game when reporters are rushing the field to get interviews.
• 32:21 - How adjusting to a game tying home run or other significant sports moment can be a rewarding broadcasting experience.
• 34:03 - How his friends see him on television occasionally and why he didn’t want to be an announcer.
• 35:21 - What a typical travel/sports year looks like for him and what his schedule is like in covering sporting events.
• 38:00 - What the craziest travel stories are for him.
• 40:09 - How his commute to stadiums and cities is no different than a typical commute.
• 41:22 - What Ben does apart from his work in sports television, and how he works at the highest level in trying to purchase sports franchises.

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• 2:34 - What August 7, 2004 mean to Jimmy.
• 3:07 - How much effort he put into getting to the Major Leagues and how rewarding it was getting the call to go.
• 3:58 - How many times he felt like giving up on his dream of reaching MLB
• 4:41 - Growing up in Grand Junction, CO
• 5:20 - How Jimmy and I know each other.
• 5:51 - How he ended up in Arizona to play baseball.
• 7:07 - Jimmy didn’t have any offers to play college baseball.
• 7:46 - He didn’t play the position he played in high school and how he got selected to play for Mesa Community College, a junior college elite program.
• 9:04 - When he thought he might be able to play baseball professional & how he got into professional baseball.
• 11:24 - What was the call like when he was drafted.
• 12:31 - Where his first professional assignment was and that experience
• 16:09 - How realistic it is for AAA to play in the Major Leagues.
• 17:28 - How he feels about MLB’s proposal to eliminate 42 minor league teams in 2020.
• 19:10 - How Jimmy feels most players feel about the journey to get to the Major Leagues in regards to pay.
• 20:41 - How he felt as a minor league player that it’s understood that he would have to sacrifice.
• 21:54 - What the difference in pay is between levels and do different clubs pay differently.
• 23:05 - How player representation with agents happens.
• 24:12 - Do players have a voice in the business aspect of baseball?
• 25:02 - What kind of instruction the players get at each level of baseball
• 26:30 - What it was like being at AAA, then getting demoted and then promoted to MLB.
• 29:38 - What the situation was like when he got the call up to MLB and the process on getting there.
• 31:42 - What happened when he got to Kansas City for his debut.
• 33:09 - What his mentality was when he made his MLB debut as a pitcher.
• 35:23 - He pitched 10 games in MLB - which game is most memorable.
• 37:55 - What the best part of being in the Major Leagues.
• 39:09 - How difficult it is to stay in MLB.
• 39:41 - How his MLB career ended and what happens to a player after that.
• 41:11 - How playing foreign baseball is different from the U.S.
• 41:48 - What was most surprising about the different cultures around the world.
• 42:46 - What players have to do to guard their signs during the game.
• 43:30 - What “tipping pitches” is.
• 44:48 - What is acceptable sign stealing in baseball and how technology has affected the game.
• 46:03 - How does a pitcher recognize that sign stealing is happening.
• 48:03 - How he feels the environment is for sign stealing in MLB
• 49:02 - How will MLB know that sign stealing is going to happen.
• 49:51 - How he feels technology can benefit baseball in the future.
• 50:42 - What he’s been doing since he left baseball.
• 51:27 - What some of the most valuable lessons he’s learned in his career.

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• 2:17 - Why he’s stayed with TV for as long as he has.
• 3:55 - How Dean got into sports television the non-traditional school route.
• 12:25 - What goes into creating a network and how content drives the direction of the network.
• 14:38 - How many sports he’s covered in his career.
• 14:52 - Dean names some of the sports he’s covered.
• 16:31 - What the model for World Championship Sports Network and how world feed productions are designed.
• 19:16 - What the challenge is for presenting a sport for fans that isn’t familiar to them.  Rugby is one of those sports where the fan base in the U.S. is less knowledgeable than those that come from rugby nations, and how it’s produced can have an impact on those newer fans.
• 22:40 - What traits or qualities that announcers need to have when they call non-traditional sporting events.
• 25:09 - How he views Paralympic athletes and non-traditional athletes.
• 27:29 - What the landscape on how sports will be produced by networks or viewed by fans.
• 30:12 - What his responsibilities were as Senior Vice President of Production at Universal Sports Network
• 33:05 - How Dean was able to implement production for more than 1,600 hours of programming on the network when events were taking place in Europe and Asia.
• 35:35 - How he acquired multiple sporting event for Universal Sports Network.
• 37:19 - What it was like producing the Boston Marathon and what his experience on that event was like.
• 40:45 - How producing the 2014 Boston Marathon had to be focused in the year after the tragedy in 2013.
• 43:14 - What he did on the PyeongChang Olympics for NBC.
• 46:02 - How working on the 2016 Olympics was one of the biggest challenges of his career.
• 47:05 - What he would like fans to know about what it takes to put on a sporting event.
• 48:51 - What the best advice he’s received working in sports television.
• 50:10 - What advice he has for anyone wanting to work in sports broadcasting.
• 52:25 - The importance of being versatile in sports broadcasting.

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• 2:31 - Dennis explains what Lagardere company is.
• 5:32 - What sports/media events and shows he works on with Lagardere.
• 7:27 - How the sports arbitrage business works in representing a sports property and how Lagardere helped the NBA with their international business.
• 9:09 - The competitiveness for sports media rights.
• 10:13 - The daunting task of securing rights and how individual sports properties have different goals in partnering with an agency.
• 11:30 - How tricky or complex it is to monetize a property.
• 13:05 - How Dennis got into the rights side of sports media.
• 14:32 - What some of the most interesting sports he’s been a part of.
• 15:33 - What he loves about it and what are some of the challenges with what he does.
• 17:02 - How he balances dealing with multi million dollar contracts and still being a part of the production environment plus how specialization for young people can limit their growth.
• 18:03 - What goes into producing the Boston Marathon for domestic and international viewers.
• 20:25 - How viewers outside the United States digest the sports they watch.
• 22:25 - Productions for sports are shrinking with on-site presence depending on the event.
• 23:00 - Where Dennis was during the Boston Marathon bombing and how the Boston Athletic Association has adjusted to making the event a special one.
• 25:47 - The most special event he’s been a part of.
• 27:30 - What the biggest challenges are for many of the sporting events around the world.
• 29:15 - Dennis explains what the SPORTEL convention is about.
• 30:10 - What makes a sports property have value.
• 30:38 - What makes a sports property valuable?
• 31:30 - What Dennis would like sports fans to know about the international landscape and how it impacts the sporting world.
• 33:00 - Importing & exporting sports media properties
• 33:37 - What the toughest event he’s ever been a part of.
• 35:10 - How much time he spends on the airplane.
• 35:34 - Best piece of advise he’s gotten working in the sports industry.

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• 2:05 - How Carlos and I know each other.
• 2:50 - What it was like growing up in Cuba and how he came to love baseball.
• 3:20 - How he learned to play baseball on the beach in Cuba from an ex-MLB player.
• 4:25 - How he got to the United States in 1961 under the Peter Pan Movement sponsored by the Catholic Church.
• 5:15 - What the adjustment was like coming to the U.S. as a child.
• 7:43 - Being drafted in 1968, how he found out.
• 8:27 - The deal he made with his parents to play baseball instead of going to college.
• 9:00 - How he got to play at the AAA baseball level.
• 11:00 - How realistic it was for him to move on from AAA to the big leagues at the time.
• 12:32 - How much internal politics affect a player’s progress to get to the next level.
• 14:00 - How Carlos transitioned from a player to a coach.
• What responsibilities different coaches have:
• 16:05 - Bullpen Coach & how Carlos developed as a coach by talking with major league managers.
• 18:05 - What a traveling secretary’s responsibilities were back in the 1970’s.
• 19:50 - Experience as a Class-A manager at Daytona Beach.
• 21:45 - Responsibilities as a Class-A manager.
• 23:40 - What a pitching coordinator and field coordinator does
• 25:51 - What the difference is in managing at Double-A and Triple-A.
• 27:50 - What the obligations to the MLB club are with AAA players and local ownership.
• 29:20 - What the most difficult part of being a AAA manager.
• 30:38 - How he became a Major League Coach
• 32:04 - How he went from the Astros Organization to the San Francisco Giants as Director of Minor League Operations.
• 34:36 - Carlos reluctantly took the Pitching Coach position with the San Francisco Giants
• 37:40 - How he ended back in AAA to manage the Phoenix Firebirds.
• 40:00 - How he tried to keep the clubhouse fun for players while also recognizing they had to win games. And how that played into your host’s experience.
• 45:15 - What an MLB Bullpen Coach does.
• 48:15 - What a 1st Base Coach does.
• 50:55 - What a 3rd Base Coach does plus and utilizing signs so the other team doesn’t steal them.
• 52:48 - What a Video Coach does.
• 55:13 - What a Director of International Operations does.
• 56:40 - Puerto Rico being a part of the MLB Draft as well as MLB instituting an International Draft
• 58:38 - The talent that the Houston Astros have from Latin American countries.
• 1:00:10 - Whether Cuba will be a part of the MLB Draft.
• 1:02:00 - What used to happen at the Winter Meetings when he was in the front office and what happens today.
• 1:05:15 - What the biggest change has been in baseball from his perspective.
• 1:06:04 - How he sees the game philosophically with technology and metrics & the possible contraction of minor league teams from MLB.
• 1:07:48 - Best advice he’s received in professional baseball.
• 1:08:28 - What he would like people to know about baseball that they might otherwise know.

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• 1:40 - What he does with the University of Utah Athletics.
• 3:10 - What the guidelines are for how the university media department protects the student athletes.
• 5:00 - How social media has affected his job in following the media and student athletes.
• 6:15 - How university media relations departments help athletes build their brands.
• 7:40 - How he deals with a potential mishap by use of social media by an athlete.
• 9:30 - How the media department builds relationships with the student athletes.
• 11:00 - With the potential NCAA rules changes with athletes monetizing themselves, how will that affect athletic departments?
• 11:35 - Where his love of sports comes from.
• 12:00 - How he got into sports media?
• 16:25 - What someone who’s new in media relations does in their jobs.
• 18:20 - How he found a position in the Denver Broncos media relations department in the late 1990’s.
• 20:10 - How he grew to became the Director of Media Relations with the Denver Broncos and what the media environment was like.
• 21:40 - What the competition in sports media was like in the Denver market and how he learned from Jim Saccomano, former head of PR for the Denver Broncos.
• 25:05 - The difference in building relationships with collegiate athletes vs. professional athletes.
• 26:35 - How he managed media requests during Denver’s back-to-back Super Bowl seasons.
• 28:57 - How many media requests he received during the Super Bowl.
• 30:45 - What the craziest media request he’s ever received.
• 32:40 - What the Broncos’ organization was like under the late Hall of Fame Owner Pat Bowlen and how his ownership was based on winning championships and family.
• 35:45 - How he became a part of ProLink Sports after the Denver Broncos.
• 39:30 - What the differences are working for a smaller university versus the bigger schools.
• 40:10 - What a bowl game is like for media relations in comparison to a Super Bowl.
• 41:30 - Best advice he’s received working in this industry.
• 43:25 - Recommendations for someone who is interested in a career in media relations and what to expect.
• 45:10 - What sports fans should know about how media relations helps the viewer enjoy the sport.

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• 2:00 - How seeing Monday Night Football Sidelines Reporter Melissa Stark inspired her to pursue a career in sports broadcasting.
• 3:40 - How conversations with her father, a high school Hall of Fame baseball coach, helped develop her for a career in baseball.
• 6:20 - Where she went to college, how internships were valuable for her and how she broke into the industry.
• 10:10 - How she won over her former boss with her sports knowledge when she was initially laughed at.
• 15:30 - What it was like the first time she worked as a reporter.
• 18:00 - How she got her job with the San Diego Padres as an announcer.
• 20:20 - How during her interview she realized she was made to be a baseball announcer.
• 22:15 - How her San Diego Padres broadcast team helped shape her into the broadcaster she is today and how she became a Colorado Rockies announcer.
• 29:15 - How she had doubts about her career and how she was able to get through those doubts.
• 32:05 - How she balances the demanding tv work schedule with her family.
• 34:20 - What she believes makes a good sports broadcast.
• 37:15 - How she builds relationships with athletes to help her with storytelling.
• 41:20 - How she prepares for a game as a sideline reporter.
• 43:15 - How she prepares for a game as a host.
• 44:00 - How she prepares for a game as a play-by-play announcer.
• 46:30 - What it was like calling a Major League Baseball game as play-by-play for the first time and the first woman to call an MLB game telecast in the last 25 years.
• 50:35 - What the reaction was to her making history.
• 52:00 - How women are becoming more prevalent in sports broadcast leadership roles.
• 53:30 - How women’s perspectives and diversity on covering sports can be valuable to the audience.
• 57:10 - How she views herself among the women who have worked in sports broadcasting.
• 59:45 - Her advice on being genuine and be who you are.
• 1:01:20 - How she felt being “the story,” and how she helps athletes overcome their hesitation to being interviewed.
• 1:03:50 - Best advise she has received from someone working in this industry.
• 1:05:20 - What she would like viewers know about live sports broadcasting.
• 1:08:10 - The most challenging broadcast she’s been a part of.

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• 1:30 - Where his love of sports comes from?
• 2:05 - Did he think he wanted to work in sports?
• 2:45 - How his interest in basketball translate into him working in the sports industry.
• 3:28 - How he got into the sports the sports industry and later into sports television.
• 6:00 - Was it easy working as a font coordinator (graphics coordinator), What the next steps in his career were.
• 7:48 - Going to the NCAA to work in broadcast services.
• 8:55 - What his responsibilities at the NCAA were.
• 11:50 - What the relationship between the sports tv networks and the NCAA was like when he was with the NCAA.
• 13:20 - How he moved on from the NCAA and got to ESPN.
• 17:05 - The logistical complexities in scheduling personnel while at ESPN Regional Television.
• 18:15 - How he managed approximately 1,000 games per season.
• 20:50 - What it means to him to have helped ESPN grow with college basketball.
• 22:00 - How he has the ability to remember details.
• 23:10 - How he keeps a list of all the music concerts he has been to in his life.
• 24:30 - How Sammy Hagar and Van Halen are his favorite band.
• 26:00 - How Chris was introduced to me to produce a college basketball game in Mexico.
• 27:20 - Chris shares how the college basketball season is put together.
• 28:15 - How he decides on putting a production crew together.
• 30:20 - How he provides feedback to the production personnel.
• 32:35 - What his outlook/philosophy on finding and working with announcers.
• 34:30 - How he coaches announcers with his production company.
• 36:20 - What he believes makes a good play-by-play announcer and the qualities they need to have.
• 37:40 - Diversity is a big part of looking for announcers.
• 38:25 - What he looks for in an analyst.
• 40:15 - As a talent/announcer evaluator, did he go after analysts or did they come to him?
• 42:30 - How he looked for reporters and how it was a challenge to fit them into college basketball.
• 45:15 - What Ross Mobile Productions does as a game packager and how many networks are using packagers.
• 46:50 - What REMI’s and At-Home Productions are.
• 50:40 - What the biggest or most memorable event he’s covered.
• 53:05 - What the craziest event he was ever a part of.
• 56:55 - What he would like sports fans to know about the tv broadcast industry.
• 58:00 - If he were to do any thing else besides sports broadcasting.
• 59:10 - How young announcers or existing announcers reach out to get advice through chrisfarrowproductions.com.

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• 1:30 - What is a Technical Director? John describes the front bench of the tv production truck as similar to being on the USS Enterprise from the Start Trek franchise.
• 4:00 - The role, responsibilities and procedures of a technical director for NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
• 7:30 - What technical aspects the TD is responsible for.
• 8:20 - What’s the routine on game day during Sunday Night Football.
• 11:00 - How the production crew goes through scenarios for an unusual scenario during a show.
• 12:45 - The level of attention to detail on a show like Sunday Night Football, spearheaded by NBC Executive Producer, Fred Gaudelli.
• 14:30 - How John got his start in the industry. He talks about his early mentors, how an early, behind-the-scenes video of the Emmys gave him the passion to pursue television production, getting a job at a radio station and and how he moved over to television.
• 22:20 - What it was like being in the technical director chair on a game for the first time.
• 27:50 - The minutes before counting down to the start of a broadcast.
• 29:20 - What the most challenging event he’s ever worked on — the Super Bowl pre-game show.
• 34:15 - The caliber of events John’s worked on, plus what the differences are between a director and a technical director.
• 36:05 - How he directed the NASCAR pre-race show during Kid Rock’s performance.
• 39:20 - How it’s more challenging directing a world-feed production such as the Boston Marathon, versus a production in which you have complete control.
• 41:30 - He discusses how he oversaw the production for the American Alliance of Football (AAF).
• 46:55 - What makes a good TD and director combination?
• 50:55 - How a TD and a director find synergy.
• 53:55 - How would you describe the communication that happens in a tv truck?
• 56:55 - What he would like for you to know if you are watching the Super Bowl in 2020.
• 59:25 - What the best advice he’s ever gotten working in the broadcast industry.
• 1:02:05 - How he views the sports broadcast industry as a sisterhood and brotherhood of people who care about each other, and how this is a fun career and industry to work in.

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David Loignon is a seasoned television producer, having worked at TVG Network, the first interactive horse racing network in the U.S. He has also produced the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as in-venue television for fans at the X-Games and Formula One races.

1:50 - How he got started in sports broadcasting.

3:00 - Helping to launch TVG Network and whether he thought it would survive.

4:15 - How he helped blend TVG’s idea of wagering on horse racing and entertainment to attract new fans.

7:15 - How he was able to explain the complexities of horse racing to a new audience.

9:45 - How a producer has to balance presenting a sport to a new audience and how it can affect an existing audience.

10:40 - How Formula One has embraced change to bring in new fans.

12:20 - What his role was in the Churchill Downs simulcast productions department.

13:15 - What Big Red Kong Productions produces in addition to X-Games and Formula One.

14:15 - How he was able be the production company on the UCI Cyclocross World Championship, the first time it was ever hosted in the United States.

15:30 - How he navigated the UCI Cyclocross World Championships during heavy rains prior to the event.

17:40 - Getting the audio to different countries in a world feed event.

18:45 - Is there a difference covering a sport for a domestic sports audience vs. an international sports audience?

20:25 - How he prepares to cover an international sporting event if he’s never seen it or been a part of it.

21:40 - How producing in-venue events for the X-Games and Formula One differ than what you see on your tv at home.

23:35 - How they keep the fans energized when coordinating with ESPN during coverage of X-Games.

25:10 - What the biggest challenge in keeping the audience engaged at the venue?

26:30 - How the in-venue production works in conjunction with the network production.

30:05 - How sports tv broadcasts are like a dance.

31:20 - How he finds the right fit for his production crew and how the X-Games are like a family.

33:45 - How did you get to be the production provider for Formula One?

35:20 - Working with good people.

36:00 - How someone who can break into the sports broadcasting industry.

38:35 - Producing in the United States compared to internationally.

39:35 - With mobile technology, how does that affect how a viewer consumes an event?

41:20 - How Game Changer has impacted the fans’ experience at the sports venue.

42:40 - How production personnel should be seeking to keep the audience engaged.

43:55 - What the biggest challenge in his career has been working in tv sports.

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Scott Hecht has worked many different roles in sports broadcasting, including as a producer, director and coordinating producer/director, having been lead producer for the Phoenix Suns and San Diego Padres, lead director for TVG Network and as coordinating producer/director at ESPN.  He currently works as senior producer at Syracuse University Athletics.

1:36 - Where his love of sports started.

2:50 - When he knew he had to work in sports tv.

4:12 - How he got into the sports tv industry.

6:25 - How he has helped others break into the production side of sports tv.

8:15 - How mistakes happen in a truck and the need for younger people.

10:00 - The opportunities for sports production people.

11:26 - What it was like producing his first ever event.

13:50 - What broadcasting legend Arnie Harris taught him about producing/directing.

16:00 - Producing the Phoenix Suns during their successful seasons and how it led to more opportunities.

17:50 - How he worked with athletes to help make his shows better.

20:36 - How storytelling is a big part of his producing philosophy and how it’s done for the viewer.

21:56 - How he produced baseball and how storytelling is a big part of helping the viewers understand the game, and why he loves producing for the viewer.

25:42 - How producing the 1999 World Basketball Championships for the NBA was his most memorable event as well as the scariest moment in his career.

33:21 - What it was like working for ESPN.

35:11 - What a Coordinating Producer does in the studio.

38:05 - How he transitioned to overseeing university sports productions with ESPN/SEC Network.

39:49 - Working with a younger generation in sports tv production.

40:25 - How everyone used to think that students attended Syracuse University to become an announcer, but more are looking at production-type opportunities.

41:58 - How Syracuse supports goals of being the next great announcer but they want to equip students with production knowledge.

43:36 - What he things the future of tv and broadcasting looks like.

46:27 - How storytelling is becoming a lost art with all of the changes in how games are produced.

48:05 - How his love for working in sports broadcasting is a sacrifice that he hopes help the viewer make memorable experiences with their families.

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