Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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What’s it like to cover the Kansas City Chiefs? The guest is The Athletic’s Nate Taylor Feb 05, 2024

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Episode 368 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Nate Taylor, who covers the Kansas City Chiefs for The Athletic. In this podcast, Taylor discusses challenges and fun of covering the Chiefs; what kind of access he gets to Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce; the best talkers on the team; how Taylor Swift has impacted the coverage this season; how he finds and pursues stories; what he expects Las Vegas to be like for Chiefs coverage; how much pressure there is on game days; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Can Taylor Swift Impact The Super Bowl Viewership? Guest is Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch Jan 31, 2024

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Episode 367 of the Sports Media Podcast features Sports Media Watch editor and founder Jon Lewis. In this podcast, Deitsch and Lewis discuss the NFL’s Championship Game viewership; Super Bowl viewership expectations; Taylor Swift impact; Greg Olsen; what ESPN will do with its NBA teams; Netflix and niche sports, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN NHL broadcasters Ray Ferraro and Sean McDonough Jan 29, 2024

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Episode 366 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN NHL broadcasters Ray Ferraro and Sean McDonough. They will call the NHL All Star Game on February 3 at 3PM ET on ABC. In this podcast, Ferraro and McDonough discuss the challenges of broadcasting an All-Star Game; what access viewers will get; why viewership is up this year in the NHL; the difference between Canadian and U.S. broadcasts; which players at ice level stand out above the rest; the speed of hockey broadcasts; the best teams in the league so far; whether we see more gambling information in game broadcast; the prospect of NHL plays competing at the Olympics and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

The Athletic’s Chantel Jennings on women’s basketball Jan 26, 2024

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Episode 365 of the Sports Media Podcast features The Athletic’s senior women’s baseball writer Chantel Jennings. In this podcast, we discuss the NCAA’s eight-year agreement with ESPN worth $115 million annually to televise 40 college sports championships each year, including the marquee Division I women’s basketball tournament; why it the women’s basketball tournament was not spun off from that deal; what happens next; the teams to watch for as we head to March; Caitlin Clark at Iowa and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

CNBC’s Alex Sherman and The Boston Globe’s Chad Finn Jan 25, 2024

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Episode 364 of the Sports Media Podcast features The Boston Globe Sports media writer Chad Finn and CNBC media reporter Alex Sherman. In this podcast, we discuss the 10-year deal announced between TKO and Netflix for “Monday Night Raw”; what that deal might been for Netflix getting into the sports rights business; how the deal impacts other media companies; the NFL’s divisional round viewership numbers; which Super Bowl matchup is best viewership-wise between the Chiefs, Lions, Niners and Ravens; Peacock’s churn for its NFL playoff game; the future of Sports Illustrated; staff layoffs at that brand; whether a start-up sports journalism brand can work; Doc Rivers taking the Bucks job and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Paul Finebaum Jan 22, 2024

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Episode 363 of the Sports Media Podcast features Paul Finebaum, who hosts the aptly named The Paul Finebaum Show which can be heard on ESPN Radio, SEC Network and Sirius XM Channel 81 from Monday to Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. ET. In this podcast, Finebaum discusses how his show reacted to the retirement of Alabama coach Nick Saban; the reaction of his callers to the news; how Kalen DeBoer has been received in Alabama; the uniqueness of doing his show in the region he does; the prospect of Nick Sabam working at ESPN; what Saban might be like as a game analyst; college football at ESPN next year with the full SEC Football package; how often he knows his callers personally; a caller defending Richard Nixon; the legacy of Phyllis Perkins, known to the college football world as Phyllis from Mulga, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

The Peacock Playoff Game: Austin Karp and Jon Lewis join the roundtable Jan 18, 2024

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Episode 362 of the Sports Media Podcast features Sports Business Journal managing editor/digital Austin Karp and Jon Lewis, the editor and founder of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast we discuss Peacock averaging 23 million viewers for its exclusive Dolphins-Chiefs game; what the viewership number means; why you will see this again next year; how to extrapolate the churn rate; the potential of the NFL buying a stake in NFL; what such a stake would mean for NFL coverage and investigative journalism; Nick Saban’s potential at ESPN; whether Saban would be good on College GameDay; the next few months for Pat McAfee and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts. Google Play and Spotify.

The Deal-Makers: Karen Brodkin and Hillary Mandel Jan 16, 2024

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Episode 361 of the Sports Media Podcast features Karen Brodkin, the co-head of WME Sports and an executive vice president at its parent company, Endeavor, and Hillary Mandel, an executive vice president and head of media for the Americas for IMG, an Endeavor company. Brodkin and Mandelhave worked as advisors on an endless amount of high-profile media deals, from individual team deals to league deals. They recently served as consultants for the NCAA for its $920 million, eight-year agreement with ESPN. In this podcast, Brodkin and Mandel explain their jobs and the skill sets needed for it; the use of research in evaluating deal points; the current economic environment for sports media rights; why the NCAA ultimately opted not to separate the women’s basketball tournament in its deal; why women’s college sports is on the rise; the Pac-12 falling apart; Peacock’s playoff deal with the NFL and what it means for consumers heading forward, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN author James Andrew Miller on Pat McAfee Jan 09, 2024

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Episode 360 of the Sports Media Podcast features James Andrew Miller, the best-selling author of books on CAA, ESPN and Saturday Night Live and HBO. In this podcast Miller and Deitsch discuss Pat McAfee accusing a longtime ESPN executive of sabotaging his program by leaking false viewership information to the media; the appearances from Aaron Rogers on McAfee’s show; the support McAfee has from ESPN’s two top executives; the history of ESPN on-air talent challenging executives; why McAfee has leverage; what might happen next; and much more.

ESPN’s Bill Bonnell and Jimmy Platt, the producer and director of the college football national championship game Jan 08, 2024

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Episode 359 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN producer Bill Bonnell and ESPN director Jimmy Platt. Bonnell and Platt served as the producer and director for the Michigan-Washington college football national championship game. In this podcast they discuss what is unique about a national college football championship for the production truck; how Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and Washington coach Kalen DeBoer are in production meetings; what having two sideline reporters means for a broadcast; how many cameras are used for the title game; how they decide on crowd shots; working with Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit; Bonnell being a runner for Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell; Platt directing the game in which Damar Hamlin collapsed and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

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