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
Hannah Storm, ESPN studio host and Sportscenter anchor
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In episode 56, Kevin chats with Hannah Storm, legendary sports broadcaster. Storm has been at ESPN since 2008, where she's served as an anchor across SportsCenter, NFL Live, NBA Today, and WNBA and NBA Countdown. She's hosted everything from the Boston and New York City Marathons to the Rose Parade, while also appearing on Vibe Check on Disney+. Long before her time at ESPN, Storm got her start as a disc jockey in Corpus Christi, Texas. She'll explain how impossible it was at the time for a woman to get a TV job in sports, so she went the radio route, eventually becoming sports director at KSRR in Texas, where she had to interview athletes outside the locker room. She got her TV break in Charlotte, before landing a national job at CNN and then was discovered by Dick Ebersol, leading to a long stint at NBC where she's best known for her NBA coverage. Hear how Hannah Storm broke in.