Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Kevin Fishbain, senior writer at The Athletic, interviews sports media personalities about their origin stories. Each week, reporters, columnists, play-by-play announcers, sports radio hosts, television anchors, producers and more will tell Kevin about their first jobs in the industry, and how they broke in.
Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Peggy Kusinski and Dionne Miller, Chicago broadcasters and ESPN 1000 hosts
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In episode 45, Kevin chats with Peggy Kusinski and Dionne Miller, hosts of "Peggy and Dionne" on ESPN 1000 in Chicago. Kusinski has been on the air in Chicago since the early 90's including two decades at NBC-5. She discusses what it was like at Jerry Sloan's basketball camp, discovering — and then working at ESPN, how she got started in her hometown. Miller, a reporter and anchor for ABC-7, explains what drew her to TV when she originally went to college to be a teacher, and what she learned at jobs in Montana, San Diego and Sarasota. Then you'll hear how the "Peggy and Dionne" show came to be.
This episode is sponsored by Sports Broadcasting Play by Play camps. For more info, head to http://www.playbyplaycamps.com/. Hear how Peggy Kusinski and Dionne Miller broke in.