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Rich Eisen’s This Was SportsCenter Debuts With Dan Patrick

The six-episode video podcast uses first-person interviews and archival material to reconnect legacy SportsCenter viewers with Disney and ESPN platforms.

Overview

  • The series launched Friday with a Dan Patrick episode and will publish new episodes weekly on Fridays through July 3, with guests Mike Greenberg, Linda Cohn, Chris Fowler and Craig Kilborn and a bonus Chris Berman episode set for June 8.
  • Episodes are available as a video podcast across Disney+ as part of its Throwback Summer campaign, on the ESPN App for ESPN Unlimited and ESPN Select subscribers, and on major podcast services.
  • Rich Eisen hosts and produced the six-episode season through Rich Eisen Prods., with Mike Hoskyns credited as the series’ producer and editor.
  • Each episode pairs one-on-one interviews with archival footage and photos to probe SportsCenter’s newsroom life and defining moments from the late 1990s and early 2000s, and Eisen briefly returned to the anchor desk for the series.
  • The project frames SportsCenter as a cultural touchstone since 1979 and reflects a broader industry move toward nostalgia-driven, personality-led content that can drive cross-platform engagement for Disney and ESPN.