WATCH THE MEDIA January 1, 2023 Student Specials 60:08 All of this audio comes from the BRDC 375 Class Fall 2022: at :30 Grant Hansen Story Time with Steven M Sipple, former Journal Star columnist now with Husker Online At 20:30 Sam Knoll interviews long time KC Royals play by play announcer Steve Physioc At 30:20 Connor Clark chats with CoJMC professors Jason Stamm and Matt Waite at 50:20 Ashtyn Tridle talks with News Channel Nebraska executive and sportscaster Brand Aksamit...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr
All of this audio comes from Sports Broadcasting Class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Fall 2022: at :30 Sam Knoll on working with his dad broadcasting high school football games :30 at 14:00 Dillon Pelster personal podcast interview his friends about sports coverage 14:00 at 34:00 Thomas Codo interviews long time Nebraska volleyball announcer John Baylor 34:00 at 44:00 Lucas Garton’s overview on the United State action in the 2022 World Cup 44:00...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr
Veteran writer ADAM ELDER’s first book focuses on the efforts by the United States men’s national soccer team to get to the World Cup for the first time in 40 years. The 1990 team did make it to Italy for the World Cup. Elder chronicles the path and introduces us to an interesting array of characters. The subtitle is “The totally late ’80s and early ‘90s tale of the team that changed American soccer forever.” This interview gets to the heart of that and to the process of reporting, writing and p...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr
TIM KEOWN has been with ESPN since 1998, when they created ESPN, The Magazine. Though ESPN no longer publish a magazine, Tim continues to write long form journalism stories that appear on ESPN.com. He also works in the other platforms of ESPN. This conversation centers around the processes of writing and reporting and purposing your work to podcasts and video.
Dec 10, 2022•57 min
With the Qatar World Cup starting this week, I want to share an interview I did with Grant Wahl in January of 2022. Grant publishes his journalism at GrantWahl.substack.com. We talk about the state of American soccer - granted it's a conversation from early in 2022 - and some big picture stuff about the beautiful game, including the impact the game has had on young Americans.
Nov 17, 2022•45 min
CESAR BRIOSO is a digital journalist for USA Today, and the author of two books on Cuban baseball, including the 2019 book “Last Seasons in Havana” and “Havana Hardball," published in 2015. In this conversation we talk about the history of Cuban baseball, its relationship to American baseball and MLB, and the lasting impact of Fidel Castro. It has historical and contemporary context.
Nov 12, 2022•1 hr
SEAN CALLAHAN is the owner/publisher of Husker Online, which is now affiliated with On-3 Sports. Callahan also does local television, local radio and makes public appearances around the state. Among the questions posed: how did the state's media and fans get the Scott Frost thing so wrong? can we in the media learn some lessons from this Frost story? why do so many outlets cover a football program that hasn't been a contender for a long time? what does the change to On-3 mean to your business? S...
Oct 23, 2022•46 min
Alexi Lalas has held just about every job in American soccer, including national team player; he played in Serie A and MLS; he was an executive and now a television analyst for about a dozen years, first a ESPN and then Fox Sports. He's outspoken and warm and friendly. He's insightful and irreverent. It's all fair game with Alexi as we near the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, for which he will be part of the broadcast team on Fox Sports.
Oct 22, 2022•1 hr
TROY CLARDY is a veteran PxP announcer based on the West Coast. He has worked in sports talk radio, live sports production. He is one of the few African American PxP voices working in the U.S. He talks about that, about hustling work in a busy and expensive market, and the process getting where he is and how he manages the work.
Sep 12, 2022•44 min
JAKE BARTECKI AND CAELAN DEBBAN WORK AT RADIO AND TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR FLOOD COMMUNICATIONS IN NEBRASKA; BARTECKI AT KWBE IN BEATRICE, DEBBAN AT KUSO/US 92 IN NORFOLK. THEY BOTH COVER NEWS AND SPORTS FOR NEWS CHANNEL NEBRASKA. THEY TALK ABOUT THE IMPACT OF LOCAL RADIO, THE VALUE OF DOING TELEVISION AND THE PASSION THAT DRIVES THEM TO GET BETTER. SHOW NOTES: 1:50 Can you imagine how much you’ve learned in the last 15 months? 3:00 Mimosa Fest? 8:40 The impact of local radio 14:00 How much did yo...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Guy Harrison is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. His book On the Sidelines: Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster was published in 2021 by the University of Nebraska Press. Harrison writes about the current state of women in sports broadcasting, the challenges and the double-standards, and provides some suggestions about how the conditions might improve. A conversation about inclusiveness in the sports business...
Aug 20, 2022•50 min
MIKE WOITALLA Has covered soccer for more than 35 years for Soccer America magazine. SHOW NOTES :40 World Cup in Qatar and the US in it and how it impacts MLS 4:00 US should have good showing in Qatar 5:45 Does world take US soccer more seriously? 13:40 Clubs around the world want a piece of the US market? 18:50 Who is driving the increase in soccer interest in the US 22:00 USA still the standard for women’s soccer around the world? 25:00 US training for young soccer players 27:30 US and MLS get...
Jul 31, 2022•37 min
DAVID BERRI Economics Professor, Southern Utah University July 2022 David Berri researches and writes about sports economics. In this conversation we break down the changing economics of college sports. Show Notes: 1:30 History of NIL 4:00 College athletes and why they choose schools (hint: it’s changing) 10:00 Will college athletes begin to collectively bargain? 14:30 Will athletic departments soon be paying athetes directly? 17:30 Booster Collectives 21:50 Explain monopsony please 26:30 What w...
Jul 10, 2022•42 min
STEVE SIPPLE worked at the Lincoln Journal Star for about 30 years, the last 15 as a columnist. His primary beat for much of that time is Huskers football. In June 2022 he left the Journal Star to work for On3, the newest of the sports sites dedicated to college athletics, mostly recruiting but not exclusively; the others are 247 Sports and Rivals. He has a long-term contract to do what he’d been doing in the newspaper business. He says he doesn’t think the local journalists have been too easy o...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Adrian Martinez and Geoff Exstrom host the podcast Athletes Unfiltered . They are both recent graduates of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Geoff with a degree in Sports Media and Broadcasting and Adrian in Business. Martinez has since transferred to Kansas State to play his final year of football. They talk about their podcast, how it got started, what they’re trying to do with it and where they go from here.
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Gary Sharp hosts the morning show with Damon Benning at 1620 the Zone in Omaha. He talks about the chemistry he has with his partner; also, the difference in planning and delivering an early morning show and a midday show. A little more pop culture in the morning and a little more sports in the middle of day.
Apr 26, 2022•36 min
MARK FAINARU-WADA has been on the investigative team at ESPN for 15 years. He and his brother Steve Fainaru often collaborate and did so on a piece released April 14, 2022, “Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai is the face of NBA’s uneasy China relationship.” John got Mark on the line within hours and recorded this conversation about the story, about the task of reporting on the ESPN's business partners, about the process of chasing down this story, which took a year to report, edit and deliver, and wor...
Apr 17, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 13
DAVE RAYMOND enters his sixth season as the television play by play voice of the Ranges. He was the lead announcer of the Houston Astros for seven seasons. The Stanford grad and Nebraska native says it's great to be back after the lockout. He says baseball is taking on its challenges, such as its style of play, which has affected the pace of the game. He says MLB also has a consumption problem, competing with the phone, tablets, other programming that is streamed and on television. The question ...
Apr 11, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 12
KEVIN FRANDSEN in 2022 starts his first year as the TV analyst for the Washington Nationals, after two seasons as an analyst on Phillies radio broadcasts. Frandsen played for the Nats and says he thinks his time as a player in DC helped set the tone for his hiring. He thinks baseball should be concerned about its style of play, its TV blackout rules and he likes a good number of the enacted and proposed new rules in the game.
Apr 04, 2022•25 min
KEN KORACH has been the lead radio voice of the A’s for 17 years, and with the club overall for 27 years. DAVE RAYMOND is the lead TV announcer for the Texas Rangers, going into his sixth season. He spent seven years with the Houston Astros in the same capacity. KEVIN FRANDSEN is entering his first season as the TV analyst for the Washington Nationals after two years in the Phillies radio booth. All the guests are longtime friends, associates or former colleagues of the host, and they discuss th...
Mar 27, 2022•1 hr
JB LONG has been the voice of the Rams since they returned to LA in 2016. He’s a Notre Dame grad who grew up in Northern California. The Rams won the Super Bowl in their home stadium in February 2022, an event Long says could be a once in a lifetime honor. Long says his role is as much about calling the games as it is helping the club grow a new generation of fans in Southern California.
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr
Josh Planos is Director of Public Relations and Communications for the Better Business Bureau AND a freelance sports writer. He’s written for Sports Illustrated, Washington Post, and others. Most of his work now appears in the sports vertical of the Nate Silver founded site, Five Thirty Eight. He also does regular hits with CNN Philippines. He talks about the dual life in the media business and how he prepared for it; the process and the joy he gets from scratching both his public relations and ...
Mar 06, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 8
JEFF CARLISLE is a former software engineer who learned the craft of journalism along the way, and is now a Senior Writer covering soccer - mostly Major League Soccer and the national teams - for ESPN. He has seen MLS grow, as he says brick by brick. He has seen the interest in soccer grow in this country, but he says they still need to do a better job of making the game available to everyone.
Feb 15, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 7
BILL DOLEMAN He is working his fourth Olympic Games in 2022. By his own estimation Bill has done 30-40 different Olympic sports on television. He has worked in Houston and Denver. He has broadcast all the traditional American sports on regional and national television, and worked a number of sports and events in his native Nebraska. We spend a lot of time in this conversation talking about the process of doing the Olympics on Television; his career both at the network level and locally; and the ...
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 6
JOHN BISHOP and JOSH PETERSON have been co-hosting the afternoon radio show “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” at 1620 The Zone in Omaha since August 2014. They talk about the process of the show, the rough early patches, the entertainment value of what they do, and much more. This is a frank conversation about the show, its history and its hosts. Show Notes Chapter 1 The show and who they are (to 12:30) Chapter 2 The history of the show, which was founded by Kevin Kugler (to 25:00) Chapter 3 Grooming th...
Jan 30, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 5
JOHN BAYLOR has been the voice of the Nebraska volleyball team for nearly 30 years. He's a broadcaster, a teacher, and an entrepreneur. He is philosophical in this conversation about where we are in this country, and how sports and sports broadcasting fit. He has a unique broadcast style and a big picture view. A Stanford grad who wanted to be an actor who then stumbled into mentoring students, and since 1994 he is the Huskers fan's link to their highly ranked women's volleyball team....
Jan 23, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 4
GRANT WAHL , who spent 25 years at Sports Illustrated, is now publishing his world-class soccer journalism at Substack. So, from one of the storied brands in American journalism to the new world. He shares his story with us on Watch the Media, including an inside look at the process of getting his work published at GrantWahl.com . He says soccer is 'cool' for young people and provides some advice to young people who might be interested in the business.
Jan 17, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 3
At the end of 2021, MIKE’L SEVERE left his job as co-host of the morning drive show on 1620 the Zone in Omaha. Severe has been on the media scene in Omaha for about 25 years, much of that time doing sports radio. He says it’s time for a new challenge. He talks about why he got out of radio, the media market, and much more.
Jan 09, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Dave Tepper is the Program Director and Operations Manager of Altitude Radio Sports in Denver. He is a former PD of 1620 The Zone in Omaha (2015-2018) where he worked with most of the management and talent who are still there. He talks about the business, its process, molding talent and much more in this conversation.
Jan 01, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 1
The Oakland Athletics created a streaming audio network in 2019, and called it A’s Cast. They send all their programming, including live PxP to the stream while some of it still airs terrestrially. Chris Townsend is the founder, host and producer of the enterprise. Cody Elias is multimedia producer and editor. They both joined us in Fall 2021 to talk about the innovations they use to create a new audio delivery system.
Nov 29, 2021•59 min
