CBS Sports VP of Production/Sr. Creative Pete Radovich, Jr. has won 45 Sports Emmys. He has been behind CBS/Paramount+’s excellent Champions League coverage and has some of the greatest creative pieces in the fabled network’s history. Radovich is the guest on a 35-minute “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”
The Rundown …
How Radovich’s job works from the opening teases of Super Bowls to Champions League
How do you cut through in a second screen world
Why Radovich & his team have leaned in to the human interest angles
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The CBS 2018 John Malkovich classic before the AFC Championship game
How do he get Malkovich to do it
The reaction it received globally even eight years later
Winning not only Sports Emmys, but also Cannes Lions
The Army-Navy tease with editor Anthony Cortese that same year was also special
Why the Army-Navy teases are so important
How Radovich grew up with professional soccer
The reason behind the Champions League approach toward hardcore fans
Telling Peter Schmeichel & Jamie Carragher that if you would do a segment in Europe than do it here
How he sat down with Sean McManus and David Berson about the approach
How Radovich’s “Inside The NFL” producing led to the Champions studio team
Why host Kate Scott was Radovich’s first hire
The behind-the-scenes story of how CBS/Paramount ended up with the team of Scott, Carragher, Thierry Henry and Michah Richards
Radovich produced a four-part history of “Inside The NBA” that really allowed him to get inside the mind of its producer Tim Kiely
How producers Ben Strauber and Jeff Gerttula worked to put together the chemistry on the studio show, but it is like trying to predict a blind date
Radovich is always flying internationally for work
How Radovich broke into the business with no connections as his parents were immigrants from Croatia, but he had friend named Zak Ivkovic
Lisa Lax and NBC gave him his intern first break
How showing up on days he wasn’t assigned sprung his break into a job
Radovich has never had a resume
Radovich’s parents emigrated from Croatia and his love for the country
Croatia is half the population of New Jersey, which makes the Croatia’s World Cup success even more amazing
Who is the best Croatian athlete in history … and how Radovich is friends with this person
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