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With the NBA Finals pitting the Knicks vs. Wemby, Adam Silver can’t lose. Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel explain why, plus compare and grade top NBA and MLB broadcasting teams, while going in-depth on a variety of topics in the 36-minute sports media podcast.
— The Headlines: Adam Silver & The Finals, Grading the NBA on NBC, The ABC/ESPN NBA Finals top storyline, Marchand’s Mike Breen column & Ben Stiller & The Top 10 All-Time MLB feedback.
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— What’s Up/What’s Down Candidates: Silver, Alex Rodriguez, NHL on TNT Studio Show, Eric Collins
— The Questions: Where the duo goes in-depth
* Why do Marchand & Meterparel grade NBC’s overall coverage of the NBA the way they do from Mike Tirico to Reggie Miller to Jamal Crawford to nostalgia to Maria Taylor to Carmelo Anthony to Tracy McGrady to Vince Carter and introductions
* Assessing the ESPN booth of Breen, Tim Legler & Richard Jefferson post-Doris Burke on the eve of The Finals
* The Matchup: Tirico/Miller/Crawford vs. Breen/Legler/Jefferson: Who ya got
* Breaking down the Marchand and Ben Stiller tweets as Meterparel gives Marchand a nickname
* The feedback of Meterparel picking Keith Jackson for his Top MLB play-by-players, while Marchand left Bob Costas out of his and more
* What is misunderstood about Joe Buck and the level of scrutiny today
* Why Pete Radovich, last week’s Main Event, has such a good idiom for how soccer should be done and why Fox and Netflix will hopefully follow
* What TNT’s soccer coverage is getting right with its play-by-player Luke Wileman
* Everybody Loves Local: Grading the Boston Red Sox/NESN team of Dave O’Brien, Lou Merloni and reporter Jahmai Webster and does it beat YES’ booth
* Assessing Sports Illustrated laying off Michael Rosenberg, Greg Bishop & Stephanie Apstein
* Cakes are Baking Game (Play Along): Alexi Lalas, Derek Lowe & Morgan Freeman
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* On Deck: Kevin Burkhardt is the Main Event

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CBS Sports VP of Production/Sr. Creative Pete Radovich, Jr. has won 45 Sports Emmys. He has been behind CBS/Paramount+’s excellent Champions League coverage and has some of the greatest creative pieces in the fabled network’s history. Radovich is the guest on a 35-minute “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
The Rundown …
* How Radovich’s job works from the opening teases of Super Bowls to Champions League
* How do you cut through in a second screen world
* Why Radovich & his team have leaned in to the human interest angles
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* The CBS 2018 John Malkovich classic before the AFC Championship game
* How do he get Malkovich to do it
* The reaction it received globally even eight years later
* Winning not only Sports Emmys, but also Cannes Lions
* The Army-Navy tease with editor Anthony Cortese that same year was also special
* Why the Army-Navy teases are so important
* How Radovich grew up with professional soccer
* The reason behind the Champions League approach toward hardcore fans
* Telling Peter Schmeichel & Jamie Carragher that if you would do a segment in Europe than do it here
* How he sat down with Sean McManus and David Berson about the approach
* How Radovich’s “Inside The NFL” producing led to the Champions studio team
* Why host Kate Scott was Radovich’s first hire
* The behind-the-scenes story of how CBS/Paramount ended up with the team of Scott, Carragher, Thierry Henry and Michah Richards
* Radovich produced a four-part history of “Inside The NBA” that really allowed him to get inside the mind of its producer Tim Kiely
* How producers Ben Strauber and Jeff Gerttula worked to put together the chemistry on the studio show, but it is like trying to predict a blind date
* Radovich is always flying internationally for work
* How Radovich broke into the business with no connections as his parents were immigrants from Croatia, but he had friend named Zak Ivkovic
* Lisa Lax and NBC gave him his intern first break
* How showing up on days he wasn’t assigned sprung his break into a job
* Radovich has never had a resume
* Radovich’s parents emigrated from Croatia and his love for the country
* Croatia is half the population of New Jersey, which makes the Croatia’s World Cup success even more amazing
* Who is the best Croatian athlete in history … and how Radovich is friends with this person
Some Related Podcasts: Fred Gaudelli …Drew Esocoff …Pete Macheska …Ian Eagle … Jim Nantz
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* On Deck: Marchand & Meterparel
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Who is the greatest MLB play-by-player of all-time? Who is in the Top 10 from TV and radio?
Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel rank their all-time Major League Play-by-Players. Each host used their own criteria to come up with their Top 10.
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At No. 10, Meterparel had a shocker, at least to Marchand, while Marchand wrestled with his No. 1 choice until the last moment. Marchand also had one surprise legend that didn’t make his Top 10.
Play-by-players moved up and down the big boards and many great ones were left on the bubble.
The envelope please on the 38-minute all-time sports media podcast.
Some of the names considered: Sean McDonough, Bob Murphy, Joe Davis, Bob Costas, Skip Caray, Marty Brennaman, Jack Buck, Joe Buck, Bob Uecker, Gary Cohen, Al Michaels, Boog Sciambi, Jon Miller, Keith Jackson, Howie Rose, Dan Shulman; Harry Kalas, Ted Robinson, Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, Jason Benetti, Michael Kay, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Brian Anderson & Duane Kuiper.
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* On Deck: CBS’ Pete Radovich

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Netflix’s VP of Sports Gabe Spitzer lays out the vision for Netflix in sports from the NFL to MLB to the Women’s World Cup to WWE and what is next.
The 43-minute sports media podcast was shot in front of a live studio audience as part of the “Off The Record with Andrew Marchand presented by WSC Sports” series.
THE RUNDOWN …
* Why Netflix’s vision for sports is not just a sports strategy
* The evolution of Netflix’s strategy and what sports provides for the business
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* Why Netflix added more NFL and wanted to own Christmas
* How the NFL game deal sprung out of social media
* The race to the first game and setting a then streaming record
* Why boxing has done so well on Netflix
* The surprise of Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul
* Assessing how the World Baseball Classic did in Japan
* Netflix has MLB’s Opening Night, Home Run Derby and Field of Dreams, why does that work
* Marchand criticized Netflix’s Opening Night presentation in a column for The Athletic, Spitzer gave his response
* The difficulty of networks, like Fox and ESPN, not allowing their exclusive on-air personalities to appear on Netflix anymore
* Why Netflix wants to be the most talent friendly network
* How the Elle Duncan deal works
* How does Spitzer looking at adding more on-air personalities
* The Women’s World Cup next year is the most ambitious project yet
* What is the thinking behind acquiring the Women’s World Cup
* What is Gabe Spitzer’s backstory
* How he started at ESPN in 2005 out of Wesleyan
* Learning how to make documentaries at HBO
* How he moved from Fox Sports to Netflix
* What is the culture of Netflix
* Why failing is important at Netflix
* How the first big live deal with WWE came together
* Grading the WWE deal
* What is the best documentary that Spitzer has been a part of
* What’s it like working on “Harry and Meghan”
* How do you get subjects to buy in on documentaries
* Beckham’s reaction around the world to his doc
* The one big documentary still out there is …
* How interested is Netflix in the Men’s World Cup
* How does Spitzer look at AI
* Where does Spitzer see Netflix in sports in five years or 10 years
* What’s the hardest part of Spitzer’s job
* How many pitches does Spitzer receive
* Who have been the most important mentors for Spitzer
* Does Spitzer wish he had become a sports writer
Related Podcasts: Mark Shapiro, Hans Schroeder, Christian Oestlien, Jay Marine, Rick Cordella & Don Garber
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* On Deck: Marchand & Meterparel

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Why Amazon Prime Video has officially reached the ESPN, Fox, NBC, CBS & TNT level. The surprising results of the Marchand PrimeTime Schedule Ratings™. The Sunday setback. How Netflix got what it wanted from the NFL. The next great NBA TV star. Shams vs. Amazon.
Why Gary Bettman was so right on John Tortorella. What to make of the Derek Jeter in the booth. And the ever popular “Cakes are Baking” game.
It is a 36-minute edition of Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media.
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RUNDOWN ….
* HEADLINES: Why Amazon Prime Video has arrived in sports
* How the NFL is letting Netflix have the strategy it wants
* The schedule did not favor Sunday afternoons
* Gary Bettman puts John Tortorella & Las Vegas in the media penalty box
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* WHAT’s UP/WHAT’s DOWN: NFL Schedule Release, NBC MLB Booth, Chargers Social Media, Udonis Haslem
* THE QUESTIONS
* Evaluating Amazon Prime Video’s first year with NBA games
* The Steve Nash issue
* Shams vs. Amazon on the MVP story
* The NBA has found their next TV superstar … MJ, LeBron and now
* NBC’s Michael Jordan is compared to the Great Gatsby by Meterparel
* The surprising result of the official Marchand PrimeTime Schedule Ratings™
* The impact of CBS, Fox, Red Zone and Sunday Ticket
* NFL must be careful not to lose scarcity
* The lessons of the Premier League
* The big reason Bettman had to put the hammer down on Tortorella
* The hypocrisy of Tortorella and others
* Assessing the Ronda Rousey event for Netflix
* What to make of the Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez and Kevin Burkhardt Fox Red Sox-Yankees booth for June 6
* The new viral term of “Grand Sham” for when a teams is on four different platforms in four days
* How about a “Triple Clown” when it is three
* Papa Clicker on WFAN’s Steve Somers’ book
* How Papa Clicker listened to Somers under the covers
* Cakes are Baking Game: Jim Nantz … Reggie Jackson … Ron Mercer
* “Off the Record” with Matt Hong on June 9th
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* On Deck: Gabe Spitzer is The Main Event