Field Notes: The Media School Travel Blog

I interned at Fox Sports Radio this semester. It was terrific to work with talented hosts such as Rob Parker and Chris Broussard on “The Odd Couple” and see what really goes into planning and executing a national sports radio show.

Recording, editing and uploading the podcast was also a great learning experience, and it taught me a lot about what to include in a “best-of” podcast.

The producer and technical producer I worked with helped me learn the system, and it was a ton of fun hanging out with them in the control room. For a sports fanatic like me, a studio with constant live sports content and TVs with games on is a great environment. I really enjoyed talking sports with everyone.

I even made a brief cameo on-air on “The Hot Seat,” a segment where I had to give three hot takes — two sports related and one non-sports related — and defend them against the two hosts. Mine were:

• No Kawhi, no problem. The Raptors will still win the East this season even without Kawhi Leonard.
• College basketball’s March Madness is not the best postseason in sports.
• The best Christmas movie of all time is “Elf.”

The segment appears on “The Odd Couple” podcast titled “Cole Hard Cash.”

As someone who wants to have a primarily on-air career, it was a terrific experience. I have done radio in Bloomington for WIUX, but the scale of “The Odd Couple” was on a different level. Plus, my whole family got to listen to me try to defend my takes.

Being on-air to so many people, however briefly it lasted, was a terrific experience and a great jumpstarting point to my broadcasting career.