Fox Sports broadcasters Jamie Little and Shannon Spake are the guests for Episode 106 of the Sports Illustrated Media podcast. Little covers pit road for the Nascar Cup Series and Nascar Xfinity Series and a reporter for Nascar Raceday, FS1’s prerace show. Prior to joining FOX, she spent 13 years at ESPN/ABC as a reporter for Nascar and the IndyCar Series. Spake joined Fox Sports last July and covers NASCAR, college football, college basketball and NFL. She is the cohost of FS1’s Nascar Race Hub and Nascar Raceday Xfinity after each race.

On this podcast, Little and Spake discussed the significant decline of Nascar’s television viewership and how that impacts them; how they both started in racing reporting and why they wanted to cover Nascar; how Little prepares each week to work as a pit reporter; how Spake prepares for her hosting role; the most forthcoming drivers, crew chiefs, and owners in the sport; what it’s like to get cursed out by drivers; how viewers should view the inherent conflicts of interest with broadcasters who have financial relationships with drivers and teams; navigating working in a sport that is overwhelmingly male; balancing motherhood with an intense traveling job; the difference between Fox and ESPN; what stories most want to do, and much more

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