Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Latest Episodes:

Why college football is such an important property for ESPN Oct 30, 2023

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Episode 344 of the Sports Media Podcast features Amanda Gifford, a Vice President of Production for ESPN, who oversees the company’s college football event productions (live games) and the XFL. In this podcast, Gifford discusses what her role entails; how ESPN/ABC’s college football game production happens every week; why college football viewership is up this year; where college football should be as a broadcast play five years from now; why there are so few women college football opinionists in 2023; where she sees sports audio going heading forward; what someone in an ESPN talent office does; whether there will be a women president of ESPN in her lifetime; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

The Radio Voice Of The World Series: ESPN’s Jon Sciambi Oct 27, 2023

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Episode 343of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN and Marquee Sports Network broadcaster Jon Sciambi, who will debut as the national radio voice of the World Series for ESPN Radio. In this broadcast, Sciambi discusses how he followed Dan Shulman and Jon Miller as the audio voice of the World Series; working with Jessica Mendoza and Eduardo Pérez in a new three-person booth; morphing between radio and television; how you get chemistry with a new partner; the Texas-Arizona matchup; the advantage of calling the Diamondbacks as often as he has; being the television voice for the Cubs and what that means; being part of a three-person booths and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Mini-pod: How many people will watch a Rangers-Diamondbacks World Series? Oct 26, 2023

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Sports Media Watch editor and founder Jon Lewis and Sports Business Journal assistant managing editor Austin Karp discuss the World Series between the Rangers and Diamondbacks; the viewership trends for the World Series; the importance of star power; the NBA’s opening night; Week 7’s NFL viewership and why it was so big; ESPN saying it had its best fiscal year viewership since 2019; the change in the Top 10 U.S. media markets remain and more.

Featured Clip: Doris Burke Oct 24, 2023

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In this featured clip of our longform interview with ESPN NBA analyst Doris Burke that was published on Oct. 23, the ESPN analyst gives her thoughts on learning that ESPN was parting ways with Jeff Van Gundy. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN NBA analyst Doris Burke Oct 23, 2023

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Episode 342 of the Sports Media Podcast features ESPN NBA analyst Doris Burke, who joins Doc Rivers and Mike Breen on ABC/ESPN’s NBA lead commentator team. Burke will becomes the first female analyst to call NBA Finals games on network TV with the promotion. In this podcast, Burke discusses how and when she learned she would be getting one of the lead analyst chairs; her surprise that Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson were departing ESPN; her relationship with Doc Rivers; her chemistry with Breen and Rivers; why she will be nervous at next year’s NBA Finals; the power teams in the league including the Bucks, Celtics, Nuggets, and Suns; her thought on an in-season tournament; the prospect of Victor Wembanyama; the talent in women’s college basketball and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

The NBA season debuts. How will they do? Oct 20, 2023

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Episode 341 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, Lewis and Deitsch discuss the start of the NBA season and viewership possibilities; the importance of the Jets being competitive for the NFL; Pat McAfee paying Aaron Rodgers and other guests; the WNBA Finals viewership; the strength of Pac-12 viewership in 2023; World Series matchups; the retirement of ESPN PR head Chris LaPlaca and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Featured Clip: Dan Orlovsky Oct 17, 2023

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In this featured clip of our longform interview with ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky that published on Oct.16, the ESPN analyst gives his thoughts on the point of the season where an observer can declare that an NFL team is a legitimate Super Bowl contender.. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky Oct 16, 2023

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Episode 340 of the Sports Media Podcast features Dan Orlovsky, who has been an NFL and college football analyst for ESPN since 2018. In this podcast Orlovsky discusses his fondness for on-camera film analysis and how he breaks down film for television; how social media helped start his media career; how he has navigated ESPN professionally; his relationship with his NFL Live colleagues; at what point of the NFL season he feels comfortable saying a team is a legit Super Bowl contender; his conversations with Fox Sports before re-signing with ESPN; why he will be disappointed if he does not land one of the top game analyst jobs; the first NFL media-related thing he reads each morning; th one sporting event outside the NFL he would love to call; what he has learned about having triplet boys and a daughter under 12; calling ESPN’s second NFL package with Chris Fowler, Louis Riddick, and Laura Rutledge and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Mini-pod: The NFL’s best local markets and an NHL viewership discussion Oct 12, 2023

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Sportico media reporter Anthony Crupi comes on to discuss where the NFL stand after five weeks; the dominance of Kansas City and Buffalo as far as NFL ratings; CBS off to its most-watched season through five Weeks since NFL returned to CBS in 1998; the start of the NHL season and viewership expectations; if there is a good World Series viewership matchup and more. Anthony will be on with other sports viewership experts for mini-pods throughout the NFL season.

How competitive is the NHL beat? Featuring The Athletic and TSN NHL insider Pierre LeBrun Oct 11, 2023

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Episode 339 of the Sports Media Podcast features Pierre LeBrun, a senior NHL columnist for The Athletic and an NHL Insider for TSN Canada. In this podcast LeBrun discusses the biggest story in the NHL in 2023-24; the most under-covered story in the league; why he is picking a Toronto-Edmonton Stanley Cup Final; how competitive the space is for an NHL insider; his fondness for wire service reporting; how much news he gets from agents versus front offices versus players; his experience working at ESPN; why so many Canadian sports media people see working in the United States as more of a destination than Canada and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.