Aug
10
Sports Media Weekly Podcast No. 67 – Kenny Albert, Fox Sports & MSG Network
The latest edition of the Sports Media Weekly podcast is now here. Sports Media Journal’s Keith Thibault and I discussed the news of the week and it was more like the news of the day as plenty of news broke today.
We first talked about the sudden development of the NBC Sports Group luring Major League Soccer away from Fox Soccer and spreading a total of 49 MLS and US Men’s Soccer games across NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network on cable.
And it led to a mention of NBC putting one or two Notre Dame home games on NBC Sports Network starting next year.
Then, we moved to ESPN announcing the hiring of Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice and former coach Bill Parcells as NFL studio analysts.
Continuing with ESPN, we also talked about its ratings for Yankees-Red Sox and how the teams also gave Fox and MLB Network good numbers last weekend.
From there, we talked about NESN losing two of its stars, Kathryn Tappen to NHL Network and Jade McCarthy to a baby and a husband’s new job.
And we ended by mentioning the changes in the NFL on Fox crews.
That transitioned nicely to our guest Kenny Albert of Fox Sports, announcer for MLB and NFL games on the network as well as radio voice of the New York Rangers on MSG Network.
Keith and I asked Kenny about the recently completed NFL on Fox seminars in Los Angeles and how the get together brought back memories of when he joined the network from the ground floor in 1994.
We also discussed the dynamic of his NFL on Fox announcing partners, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa and how he approaches working with different partners for Fox Saturday Baseball.
In addition, we discovered that Kenny keeps a computer database of every announcing partner he’s ever worked with. I asked him to clarify a story told by his father Marv in his book that Kenny once chased a dinner guest into the bathroom for an interview on his own radio station.
And we then went over him calling all four sports and how it can lead to a very busy schedule.
One correction, I said Kenny’s Twitter account was @Kenny_Albert. That is actually somebody else. His account is @KennyAlbert so if you want to follow him on Twitter, make sure you type it as one word. My mistake.
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