Back with the Sports Media Weekly podcast and after I failed to show up for last week’s podcast, I’m back on the wagon this week. And our very special guest is the great Rich Eisen of Hanging at the Courtyard and NFL Network, host of NFL GameDay Morning and Thursday Night Football. Before we go to Rich, Keith Thibault of Sports Media Journal and I talked about the news of the week.
We began with the NBA Lockout and the alternative programming ESPN, NBA TV and TNT will have to provide to fill holes left by canceled games.
We also talked about Fox’s ratings for the World Series and how Games 6 & 7 helped to raise the numbers. And Keith and I debated Joe Buck’s plagiarism of his father’s “We’ll see you tomorrow night” call in Game 6.
We briefly touched on the upcoming negotiations for Major League Baseball and potential TV partners as Commissioner Bud Selig is hoping to cash in.
Last week’s story of World Cup rights going to Fox and Telemundo were also discussed and we ended with a discussion on ESPN Films presentation of “Unguarded” on Chris Herren, whose life was a downward spiral until he got it back on track.
Rich Eisen of the NFL Network was the very special guest on our podcast. We talked about the upcoming Thursday Night Football schedule, his time at the network being the host of NFL Total Access, GameDay Morning, Thursday Night Football and the Rich Eisen Podcast.
We asked Rich about some of best Thursday Night Football games he’s seen over the five seasons. And Rich gave his thoughts on having to anchor for several days straight during the NFL Lockout.
A very good and very special podcast. Rich hit this one out of the park and we’ll definitely have him back again. You can find this edition on iTunes doing a search for “Sports Media Journal” or you can listen right now by going here.
