Richard Deitsch talks Kevin Harlan, potential Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
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What insights does Richard Deitsch share about Kevin Harlan's broadcasting career?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody, middays 10-2, on Chicago Sports Radio, 104.3 The Score. Wouldn't have a lot of time now, Bill Self and his staff making sure they know, no fouls.
This is going to be Darling, he's got to go.
Darling puts it up, he puts it up! St. John's is going to the Sweet 16! For the first time since 1999.
Our guy, the voice of Kevin Harlan calling St. John's' last second win over Kentucky 67-65 as seen on CBS. Dylan Darling with that last second layup. Patino against Self and the man narrating it. Kevin Harlan doesn't get any better than that. As a matter of fact, Kevin will be one of the topics of our next discussion, which we are happy to report is with, here on Rahimi Harris and Grody, with the one and only Richard Deitch, host of the Odyssey podcast, Sports Media with Richard Deitch, also Sports Business Journal contributor. He is on Zoom right now. You could follow him on X at Richard Deitch as we welcome onto the Rahimi Harris and Grody show on the score. What's going on, Richard? How are you?
Fellas, it's always great to be here. You know, whenever I'm on your station, and I love Chicago because it is very, very similar to my city, Toronto, I always like to, you know, CM Punk it up, where you say something like, you know, where else would you rather be on a Monday afternoon than in the great city of Chicago, Illinois?
I love the sell, Richard. That has got me excited, and it's my show. We appreciate you stopping by. This Kevin Harlan story was so interesting to me because people don't understand how much this man has to travel. I think the travel piece of this is the most iconic of the things he's doing. Obviously, he's a great broadcaster. We have him on the station all the time. Can you walk me through this? and maybe the people out there, just how difficult it is to get from one place to another on any given assignment because he's got different bosses and different priorities, but he still is able to not miss work. And we all miss work because of flight cancellations and everything else.
Yeah, especially now. So it was great to profile Kevin Harlan, which I did for Sports Business Journal. It gave me a lot of time. So I was able to, I feel like, get a sense of his life. So Harlan is very old school, and he doesn't have an assistant. He doesn't have a travel advisor. So what he does on any given week is... is he will figure out the best route for him depending on his employer. So right now he's working for CBS, for the NFL, and obviously March Madness a little bit. Works for Prime Video when it comes to the NBA, and then works for Westwood One. So during the football season, he's always in two different markets – On a Sunday and a Monday. And what he'll do very early in his week is he'll price out all the different flights that can take him from A to B. He prices out the backups and sometimes the backups to the backups.
So he always has a plan in the event that there's some kind of travel issues or flights delayed or something like that. And he keeps all of this on these handwritten calendar journals. It is not a phone guy or anything like that. He really literally does it old school in handwritten lettering on these calendar journals that he's kept for 30, 40 years at this point. He travels more than 150,000 miles a year. Um, he does everything, like you said, separately. So what CBS wants is not necessarily what prime video wants. And he has to try to keep that very, very separate. And the interesting thing, this is a trick, and obviously your listeners can use this as well. You know, he's based in Kansas. And one of the things he always will use is he uses Midwestern, um, airports like Chicago, um,
As a hub where in the event it gets a little tricky with travel, he always believes that he can get to where he needs to get to if he's in a Chicago or a Detroit as opposed to a smaller airport somewhere where there may be, let's say, you know, like one flight a day. So that's one of the tricks that he uses is that he's willing to, he'll sleep overnight in a Chicago and then like at 6 a.m.
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