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Get Ready, NBC’s Mike Tirico Is Debuting A Sports-Themed Podcast

Get Ready, NBC’s Mike Tirico Is Debuting A Sports-Themed Podcast

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Mike Tirico’s career seems to be in a major upswing since joining NBC two years ago after 25 years at ESPN.

He is considered the face and voice of NBC Sports, serving as NBC’s lead host/announcer for the Olympics, the NFL, Notre Dame football, horse racing and golf.

This season he began hosting NBC’s “Football Night in America” pregame show, succeeding longtime host Dan Patrick, Deadline reported.

Now Tirico is launching his own podcast.

Tirico and NBC Sports Radio plan to announce the launch of The Mike Tirico Podcast across all major podcast platforms on Oct. 18, Sporting News reported. “Sunday Night Football” sideline reporter Michele Tafoya and sportswriter/author Gary Myers will appear on the debut show.

The Mike Tirico Podcast will present new episodes every Thursday. Tirico will interview athletes and sports commentators as well as giving his own take on the latest sports stories.

“I have always been a fan of longer-form sports conversation — and look forward to having great guests,” Tirico said in a statement.

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FILE – In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Mike Tirico attends the NBC Universal mid-season press day at the Four Seasons in New York. Tirico is taking the reins from Tom Hammond as a host of NBC’s Triple Crown horse racing coverage. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

 

Tirico’s career has not been without controversy. Sexual harassment complaints against him while at ESPN in 1992 recently resurfaced. At the time, he was suspended by the network for three months for multiple incidents involving attempted groping, sexual solicitation, and stalking of female co-workers. Also, despite his ethnic appearance, Tirico claims he is not Black, but Italian.

“When people go around and say, ‘You are Black’— well, I don’t encourage it, but by the same token I don’t back off of it. If you want to call me that, that’s fine. But, you know, in my whole family, there’s nobody I know who is Black,” he told Post-Standard back in 1991, Black America Web reported in 2017.

Still, Tirico’s upcoming podcast is much anticipated. He is joining many in the podcast world, including the GHOGH Podcast with Jamarlin Martin.

Podcast listeners continue to increase in numbers. Some 26 percent of Americans listen to podcasts monthly. That’s up from 24 percent in 2017, and represents 73 million people, according to Convince and Convert.