Melissa Forman - COO of Podium Pictures
Impact driven sports media from one of the most creative showrunners in sports content production
The Wormcast: How Sports Media Happens
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Show Notes
This week, it's episode 41 of The Wormcast and my guest is Podium Pictures COO Melissa Forman. We discuss her career from the MTV days through a wide variety of roles at FOX Sports and for the past few years how she's focued on impact-driven sports media. It's a very insightful conversation on storytelling philospophy through a completely different lense, one I feel you'll be compelled by. Enjoy!
Topics discussed: 2:00 Podium Pictures and The Podium Project 10:00 Working with Bode Miller and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. 25:40 MTV years - Gregg Allman 29:00 FOX Sports "In the Zone" 33:30 Melissa's projects that made a difference and philospophy of production 39:00 More from MTV 43:20 Branded content-value aligned content with Corona "Free Range Humans 53:00 FLG-USWNT documentary and the fight for equal pay.
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