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
John Fanta, broadcaster at NBC Sports
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In episode 52, Kevin chats with John Fanta, broadcaster at NBC sports where he does play-by-play for college basketball and the NBA, along with sideline reporting, in-studio hosting and podcasting. Fanta has been with NBC full-time since last summer, and has become one of the most beloved personalities when it comes to college basketball. Fanta grew up a sports-obsessed kid in Northeast Ohio watching all the Cleveland teams and took his broadcasting ambitions to high school, where you'll hear about all the work he put it in to broadcast high school sports, and what led him to Seton Hall, which opened more doors for him thanks to his willingness to take on every opportunity. That led to an internship at Fox Sports, and then a job with the Big East. Hear how John Fanta broke in.