Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 230, dated October 15, 2019.
Mina Kimes will host ESPN’s upcoming daily sports podcast. A senior writer who also frequently appears as a contributor on ESPN’s various television properties, Kimes joined ESPN in 2014 following stints at Fortune and Bloomberg News. She already hosts another podcast for ESPN, The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, which will continue production. (Lenny, by the way, is her dog.)
The appointment is part of “a new multiyear agreement,” according to the official press release, which says the upcoming project will use a “narrative-driven approach” that’s become common in the daily podcast genre.
Also announced: The podcast will debut on October 21, featuring Dell and Indeed as presenting sponsors. And in case you didn’t know, the show will be called ESPN Daily, not to be confused with the company’s daily newsletter of the same name… or The Daily, for that matter.
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