Ranked #1
Episode 5: Anthony Crupi (@CrupiCrupiCrupi), Advertising Age — Out of Home TV Ratings Measurement
Episode 5: Anthony Crupi (@CrupiCrupiCrupi), Advertising Age — Out of Home TV Ratings Measurement
Anthony Crupi has been following the TV biz longer than I have and I’ve enjoyed his consistently great work the whole ti... Read more
26 Jun 2017
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1hr
Ranked #2
Episode 2: Derek Volner (@DerekVolner), Manager @ESPNPR for College Sports/Ratings Junkie
Episode 2: Derek Volner (@DerekVolner), Manager @ESPNPR for College Sports/Ratings Junkie
Had a great chat with Derek about his career so far, what a typical week during the college football season looks like f... Read more
7 Jun 2017
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41mins
Ranked #3
Episode 44: Burke Magnus, Executive VP of Programming & Scheduling, ESPN with Matt Sarzyniak
Episode 44: Burke Magnus, Executive VP of Programming & Scheduling, ESPN with Matt Sarzyniak
It was great to talk to ESPN’s Burke Magnus. Two sections to this podcast. The first 15 minutes is a straight one-on-one... Read more
22 Jan 2018
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39mins
Ranked #4
Episode 64: James Andrew Miller
Episode 64: James Andrew Miller
Jim and I talked his podcast Origins of a Champion: Nick Saban & Alabama’s Crimson Tide. Nick Saban has a heart of g... Read more
20 Aug 2018
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27mins
Ranked #5
Episode 49: Mina Kimes, ESPN
Episode 49: Mina Kimes, ESPN
Mina recently wrote a great piece on NFL ratings ( if you don’t see a hypertext link you can find the piece at: http://w... Read more
13 Feb 2018
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18mins
Ranked #6
Episode 54: Ryan Glasspiegel & Patrick Crakes on the NFL Schedule
Episode 54: Ryan Glasspiegel & Patrick Crakes on the NFL Schedule
Ryan Glasspiegel from The Big Lead and first-time guest Patrick Crakes who is a media consultant and former executive at... Read more
21 Apr 2018
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47mins
Ranked #7
Episode 78: James Andrew Miller on Robert Caro’s “Working”
Episode 78: James Andrew Miller on Robert Caro’s “Working”
Always a pleasure to talk to Jim but a note to the sports media lovers: we spent a few minutes on “will ABC get an NFL p... Read more
27 Apr 2019
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39mins
Ranked #8
Episode 65: Jason Coyle, CEO, Stadium
Episode 65: Jason Coyle, CEO, Stadium
Stadium just celebrated its first birthday and had a lot going on in year one. I had a lot of fun talking to Stadium CEO... Read more
24 Aug 2018
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30mins
Ranked #9
Episode 56: Richard Deitsch
Episode 56: Richard Deitsch
Was great to catch up with Richard on a variety of sports media related topics and on moving to Canada and joining The A... Read more
4 May 2018
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55mins
Ranked #10
Episode 61: Cassidy Hubbarth, ESPN
Episode 61: Cassidy Hubbarth, ESPN
It was great to chat with ESPN’s Cassidy Hubbarth. We talked NBA free agency, LeBron, NBA Draft/free agency, NBA Summer ... Read more
15 Jun 2018
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30mins
Ranked #11
Episode 66: Jeff Pearlman, best-selling author
Episode 66: Jeff Pearlman, best-selling author
It was a pleasure to chat with Jeff Pearlman about his upcoming book: Football for a Buck: the crazy rise and crazier de... Read more
4 Sep 2018
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28mins
Ranked #12
Episode 77: Patrick Crakes, Media Consultant
Episode 77: Patrick Crakes, Media Consultant
Lots of Super Bowl ratings talk! If you’re enough of a TV ratings nerd to care how TV network executives think about and... Read more
8 Feb 2019
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37mins
Ranked #13
Episode 53: Bill Roth, Broadcaster, “Intro to Sports Media” Professor at Virginia Tech
Episode 53: Bill Roth, Broadcaster, “Intro to Sports Media” Professor at Virginia Tech
Bill Roth has a broadcasting career that spans 30 years including an impressive 27 of them consecutively calling Virgini... Read more
2 Apr 2018
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32mins
Ranked #14
Episode 80: Ryan Glasspiegel, The Big Lead
Episode 80: Ryan Glasspiegel, The Big Lead
Great to have Ryan back on the podcast. We talked Jamie Horowitz landing at DAZN and then had a more general conversatio... Read more
12 May 2019
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37mins
Ranked #15
Episode 74: James Andrew Miller
Episode 74: James Andrew Miller
Opportunity knocked and it seemed like a good way to let people know I’m still alive! We talked about the great “Sex and... Read more
28 Nov 2018
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30mins
Ranked #16
Episode 51: Eric Jackson on ESPN’s new president
Episode 51: Eric Jackson on ESPN’s new president
On March 5, 2018 ESPN announced it had hired Disney exec Jimmy Pitaro as president of ESPN. On March 6, 2018 I talked to... Read more
6 Mar 2018
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32mins
Ranked #17
Episode 68: Anthony Crupi, Advertising Age
Episode 68: Anthony Crupi, Advertising Age
Anthony Crupi back by popular demand! We talked Alliance of American Football, NFL ratings, tales from the sad salad (t... Read more
15 Sep 2018
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51mins
Ranked #18
Episode 46: Rick Cordella, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media, NBC Sports Group
Episode 46: Rick Cordella, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media, NBC Sports Group
With NBC televising both the Super Bowl and the Olympics in February, I thought it’s be a good time to catch up with Ric... Read more
29 Jan 2018
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24mins
Ranked #19
Episode 55: Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Episode 55: Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
It was great to talk to Derek Thompson who’s a senior editor for The Atlantic and the best-selling author of Hit Makers:... Read more
24 Apr 2018
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17mins
Ranked #20
Episode 76: Ryan Glasspiegel, The Big Lead
Episode 76: Ryan Glasspiegel, The Big Lead
More “pre-holiday informal phone call” than “formal podcast” but it was fun and we talked NBA ratings & whether ESP... Read more
19 Dec 2018
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35mins