Danny Parkins is back in Chicago after two days in Los Angeles filling in on the TV side for Colin Cowherd. Parkins talked with Dan Bernstein and Laurence Holmes on 670 The Score before his show started about the experience.
“It was incredible,” he said when asked about how it went. “It was a bucket-list thing. I mean, he is one of the best sports radio hosts in the history of the medium. The show is a massive operation. Their crew is great. By far, the biggest platform that I’ve ever fronted. It was really, really cool.
“I am not going to even pretend to undersell it or be weird and self-deprecating. It was not something that I really thought was a possibility not that long ago and then it’s become a possibility and then when they said, ‘Do you want to do it?’ I immediately said ‘Yes’ and it was really dope.”
When he was asked about the studio and the operation of the show, Parkins said, “It’s huge…I would say legitimately 30-plus foot ceilings. It’s at FOX, their lot. Undisputed, Skip Bayless’ show is in the same room as Colin’s studio and there’s no break.”
Parkins explained the one show ends and Cowherd’s show begins at about the exact same time.
“So, then you are monologuing to a one-shot, doing national TV and Skip Bayless and Rachel Nichols and Keyshawn Johnson are just walking out,” Parkins described. “They are in one corner of this huge room and you’re in the other corner of this room…and you’re just monologuing for the biggest monologue of your life.”
Parkins talked about the studio setup itself and said, “There’s no component of the studio that is like a radio studio.” He said you cannot see your producers, you are mostly just looking into and talking to the camera.
Parkins said, “It’s a huge operation,” and explained there were nine people around a conference table, “and that’s just for the content creation of the show, that’s not for the camera operator, floor director, technical stuff.”
After relaying a story about how great the researcher is that works for Cowherd and how all the people worked together, Parkins simply said, “It was very cool, very brief…it was fun.”
