Marchand Sports Media How a Hall of Fame producer changed sports TV
NBC/Amazon executive producer Fred Gaudelli joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Marchand and Gaudelli discuss how NBC was able to swipe Mike Tirico from ESPN as the successors to Al Michaels on Sunday Night Football and Bob Costas on the Olympics and how that changed the top NFL broadcast landscape.
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Gaudelli explained how he rose at ESPN, which included innovating by putting MPH on screen for the first time, he said, in baseball history at the College World Series. How he invented the bottom line scroll on the NFL Draft. Mel Kiper Jr. and the the draft board. The creation and implementation of the first down line graphic. Plus, what is next with AI, Artificial Intelligence, not Michaels, on telecasts.
Gaudelli also tells great stories about John Madden, Michaels, Kiper and Dick Vitale.
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