Kevin Fishbain
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1,371 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Kevin Fishbain’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hey everyone, welcome to Breaking In with Kevin Fishbane, brought to you by the National Sports Media Association.
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This is the podcast that tells the origin stories of your favorite sports media personalities.
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It's episode 71, and my guest is Mike Hall, studio anchor at Big Ten Network.
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One of the faces and voices of BTN, Hall has been there since the network launched in August 2007.
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Before he returned home to Chicago to be a Big Ten host, Hall broke in in front of a nationally televised audience.
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He is the first guest in this podcast and probably the only one who got his first job out of college on a reality TV show.
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As a senior in Missouri, Hall had multiple friends tell him to go audition for ESPN's Dream Job, a reality show where the winner got a job as a SportsCenter anchor.
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And this was the heyday of SportsCenter.
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You'll hear first about Hall's theater skills growing up in the Chicago suburbs, his interest in sports, his interest in sports broadcasting, and then that first audition, and how he got an important pep talk from Stuart Scott before he played a parody song in Chicago in front of the judges.
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Hall's story is unique.
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He won the show, got the job at ESPN, which had both its luxuries and challenges.
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You'll hear about his first shows, dealing with some jealousy from colleagues, and how he navigated those first years without many breaks, and then what led him back to Chicago.
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Before we get to Hall, a reminder of recent episodes, last week was Tom Waddle and Mark Silverman, otherwise known as Waddle and Sylvie, afternoon hosts in Chicago on ESP 1000.
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Prior to them was Sirius XM's Adam Shine and USA Today's Christine Brennan.
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Has this show made an impact for you or anyone you know?
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All right, here's how Mike Hall broke it.
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Mike Hall of Big Ten Network.
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Mike, our story begins.
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Your story for the sake of this podcast begins October twenty-third, nineteen ninety-nine in the Daily Herald.
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