This week it's episode 15 of The Wormcast. My guest is international sports television executive Jonth Whitehead. Jonty has spent his career with SKY Sports in the UK, beIN Sports in Doha, and with FOX Sports in the US. In early November Jonty was named President of SPORT BUFF. The company creates a live social game around sports video content through an overlay on the broadcast.

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This week, former Cleveland Browns GM Michael Lombardi joins The Wormcast. Michael has uses his four decades of NFL experience and transformed it into a multi-plaform media career.

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This week on The Wormcast, Episode 13 I welcome Mark Young. Mark is a freelance writer, researcher and editorial consultant with all the major networks. You may not of heard about Mark, but you're familiar with the copy he's written on features and teases for the planet's biggest sporting events like the Olympics, World Cup, Super Bowls, The Masters and Wimbledon.

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This week it's Episode 12 of The Wormcast and my gues is sports media strategist and consultant Pat Crakes of Crakes Media. Pat spent 20 years at FOX Sports in their programming department and rose to SVP of Programming, Research & Content Strategy. Currently Pat advises investors on sports media properties around the world.

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This week it's Epidode 11 of The Wormcast. My guest is Eric Saperstein, who was one of Golf Channel's first production employees when they launched in 1994. Eric transitioned into academia and now is the Education Director at Full Sail University in Orlando where he founded the Dan Patrick School of Sports Broadcasting.

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• http://www.fullsail.edu

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This week, it's Episode 10 of The Wormcast. Ever noticed how much music is incorporated on your favorite games you watch at home or at a stadium? My guest is Matt Gutknecht of APM Music. Matt heads up the Sports Enterainment division and we discuss how music happens in brodacasts and live sporting events. We also do a deep dive into some of the most classic sports themes from The Olympics, Monday Night Football and many others.

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1. What's APM's scope in the sports entertainment industry

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This week, it's Episode 9 of The Wormcast: How Sports Media Happens. My guest is Amy Rosenfeld of ESPN. Amy is VP of Production for soccer and the ACC Network. Amy has covered just about every sport under the sun as a freelancer for NESN producing Boston Bruins games, to producing Curling at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games for NBC, as well as The Great Outdoor Games at ESPN.

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This week on The Wormcast it's episode 8. I'm taking a deep dive into soccer television production with Shaw Brown. Shaw has been involved in all aspects of soccer production for over 25 years. He might be the only one who's worked in soccer production for ABC, ESPN, FOX, NBC and CBS. Brown has worked 13 Men's and Women's FIFA World Cups, all 25 seasons of MLS, and most recently was the studio producer for CBS Sports HQ's coverage of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League.

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This week it's Episode 7 of The Wormcast I'm joined by the sports documentarian, Jonathan Hock of Hock Films. Jon has earned 11 National Sports EMMYs and a Peabody Award for his work at NFL Films and for ESPN's "30 for 30" series of films. In 2005 Hock's story on Sebastian Telfair's life in high school in Coney Island, Brooklyn called "Through the Fire" was the first independent doc ever acquired by ESPN. Since thJon has directed or produced seven films for "30 for 30" including "The Best That Never Was" about Marcus Dupree, "Unguarded" about Chris Herren and "Survive and Advance" about Jim Valvano. This is a graduate course in the art of filmmaking.

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1. Kickoff with Jon's latest project "Benedict Men" the story of St. Benedict's High School basketball team for Quibi.

This is a graduate course in the art of filmmaking. I beleive listeners will learn a great deal.

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• http://hockfilms.com

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This week on The Wormcast, Paul Burmeister, the versitile host and play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports joins me for a candid conversation. Paul is in the middle of the Premier Lacrosse League's bubble in Utah as they play their Championship Series. He descibes what it's like calling the action during COVID.

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