Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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Mini-pod: Viewership predictions for Week One of the NFL season and thoughts on college football viewership Sep 08, 2023

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Austin Karp, managing editor/digital for Sports Business Journal and Jon Lewis, founder of Sports Media Watch, come on for a mini-podcast to discuss sports viewership. They offer their thoughts on Week 1 of the NFL season, season predictions, and the college pregame shows. They’ll be on with other sports viewership experts for mini-pods throughout the NFL season.

The start of the NFL season with Kevin Clark, now of Omaha Productions and ESPN Sep 07, 2023

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Episode 332 of the Sports Media Podcast features Kevin Clark, who launched a digital show (“This is Football”) this week with Omaha Productions and ESPN. In this podcast, Clark discusses leaving The Ringer to join Omaha Productions and ESPN; creating a digital show and podcast called “This Is Football”; what he hopes to do with his new show; potential guests; the value of having an agent at this point in his career; his pick of a Bengals-Cowboys Super Bowl; Peter King’s predictions for an Eagles-Bills Super Bowl; thoughts on the Chiefs, Jaguars and Niners; why a Las Vegas Super Bowl is going to be incredible and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

The Pat McAfee Show producer and on-air personality Ty Schmit Sep 05, 2023

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Episode 331 of the Sports Media Podcast features Ty Schmit, a producer and on-air personality of The Pat McAfee Show, a live weekday sports talk show that launches on multiple ESPN platforms on Sept. 7. In this podcast, Schmit discusses his job for The Pat MacAfee Show; how guests and story ideas are selected; the challenges and frustrations of booking guests; how much he and the staff were kept in the loop when McAfee was meeting with potential employers for his next move; why ESPN can be a good fit for the show; using non-ESPN people; why he decided to apply to work for McAfee as an intern; moving to Indianapolis fulltime without having a guarantee that McAfee would keep him on after his internship; his ability to do a Lou Holtz impression on demand; the possibility of booking Iowa women’s basketball standout Caitlin Clark, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

NBC college football analyst Todd Blackledge Aug 31, 2023

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Episode 330 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features NBC’s Big Ten Saturday Night lead analyst Todd Blackledge. Blackledge’s first call will be West Virginia at Penn State on Sept. 2 at 7:30 on NBC and Peacock. Big Ten Football will air each week on NBC and stream live on Peacock. In this podcast, Blackledge discusses why he left ESPN for NBC; how NBC made him feel wanted; being the lead of a college football package; his opening weeks of the season and how he is preparing for them; how he’s trying to find chemistry with new partner Noah Eagle; whether he views ABC’s Saturday Night Football as competition; his upcoming Big Ten podcast with Eagle; whether he can separate someone hating to see the Pac-12 dissolve with the reality that the new Big Ten teams strengthens NBC’s schedule; the loudest stadium he has been to as a broadcaster, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Kendall Baker of Yahoo Sports on sports newsletters, and Jenni Carlson of SelloutCrowd.com on starting a new sports digital site Aug 28, 2023

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Episode 329 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Kendall Baker, a senior writer for Yahoo Sports who is heading up the company’s newsletter initiative. His first newsletter for Yahoo Sports debuted Aug. 28. He is followed by Jenni Carlson, the longtime sports columnist for The Oklahoman who has moved to Sellout Crowd.com, a new sports digital startup which starts Sept. 1. In this podcast Baker discusses why he joined Yahoo Sports and what he plans to bring for readers; his view of impactful sports curation; the choice to add or not add opinion for a newsletter; the importance of newsletters for sports outlets; his time at Axios; the ideal time a sports newsletter should drop; who else is doing well in the space; whether individuals should have their own newsletter and more. Carlson discusses why she left The Oklahoman after 24 years; the impact a general sports columnist can have on a city or state; what Selloutcrowd.com plans to offer for readers and why it is not subscription-based; the amount of staffing needed for the startup; what kind of runway the new site has to succeed; what they will cover and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN’s Chris Fowler Aug 23, 2023

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Episode 328 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features ESPN play by play broadcaster Chris Fowler. In this podcast, Fowler discusses his role as ESPN’s lead tennis game-caller; his preparation for the upcoming U.S. Open; the Alcaraz-Djokovic Wimbledon final; how he sees the immediate future of the men’s and women’s game; the challenge of calling tennis off a monitor; his August and September college football schedule with Kirk Herbstreit; his new agreement with ESPN; being assigned the Saints-Panthers; Rams/Bengals and the Week 4 Falcons at Jaguars game as part of the NFL’s International Series at Wembley Stadium in London; working with Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick; his love of the Olympics; working in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup; why he enjoys podcasting and using social media to offer short-form thoughts, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN’s Marc J. Spears Aug 21, 2023

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Episode 327 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Marc J. Spears, senior NBA writer for Andscape and one of the prominent NBA voices in the country. In this podcast, Spears discusses being awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award by the Basketball Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game of basketball; the experience of being honored in Springfield, Mass; joining ESPN in 2016 as a senior NBA writer with the Undefeated, now known as Andscape, and how ESPN has changed from 2016 to 2023 from his perspective as a writer; writing about race and culture and how people react to that; how NBA players feel about playing in Toronto; why players have given him access over the years; LSU women’s basketball; the role of agents in NBA stories; hosting and producing a new show about food and wine that will air on Hulu on August 28, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

ESPN president of content Burke Magnus Aug 17, 2023

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Episode 326 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features an extended conversation with Burke Magnus, the president of content at ESPN who has oversight of ESPN’s live events, studio shows, newsgathering, original content/ESPN Films, the Talent Office, as well as audio, digital, and social media. In this podcast, Magnus discusses how aggressive ESPN will be in retaining the NBA; the interest ESPN would have if the NCAA women’s basketball tournament went up for open bid; ESPN’s interest in future World Cup rights; how Magnus sees the upcoming College Football Playoff package; the disbandment of the Pac-12; the reporting that ESPN once offered $30 million a team for the Pac 12 which the Pac 12 turned down; whether it is fair to blame Fox and ESPN for mass realignment in college football; if former Pac-12 teams going to the Big Ten hurts ESPN; the market for ESPN outside of the cable bundle; the expected price point when ESPN goes over the top to direct to consumer; whether there will be more layoffs this year at ESPN; the decision to let go of NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy; whether the NBA was involved in that decision; ESPN’s deal with Penn Entertainment; the rules covering ESPN employees on sports betting; Sage Steele settling her lawsuit with ESPN; how much ESPN fears Apple as a competitor for rights; how ESPN views the WWE rights; why ESPN wanted Pat McAfee’s entire enterprise; if non-ESPN people can come on McAfee’s show and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Men In Blazers founder Roger Bennett, U.S. National Team midfielder and podcaster Sam Mewis, and The Athletic’s Rustin Dodd Aug 15, 2023

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Episode 325 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is Men in Blazers co-founder Roger Bennett and USWNT midfielder and podcaster Sam Mewis, who have combined forces with longtime USWNT center back Becky Sauerbrunn to broadcast on Twitch during the Women’s World Cup. Bennett and Mewis will be live on the Men In Blazers’ Twitch feed for the Women’s World Cup semifinals and final. In this podcast, Bennett and Mewis discuss how they approach a second screen experience for soccer fans; why they have had audiences of more than 500,000 viewers on their Twitch feed; Mewis on watching the WWC coverage this month and how that differed from how she consumed media as a player; the next evolution of Men In Blazers; Mewis’s post-playing interest in working in the media and more. Dodd discusses his new book with Mark Dent, “Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback”; the roots of Kansas City and how it is Everytown USA; whyMahomes has succeeded; how Dodd views Mahomes historically; why Kansas City is unique as a sports town; why Dodd sees Mahomes as similar to Steph Curry; New York City sports versus Kansas City sports and how media coverage differs in each city and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

Stewart Mandel on television media rights in college football and the end of the Pac-12 Aug 09, 2023

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Episode 324 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features the Editor In Chief for college football at The Athletic, Stewart Mandel. In this podcast, Mandel discusses the impact of Fox and ESPN on the Pac-12 no longer existing as we knew it; his reporting on Apple’s offer to the Pac-12; college sports administrators wanting linear television despite the declines in viewership and households; the Pac-12 title game as a PPV play?; Oregon and Washington in the Big Ten; why realignment content draws significant page views; what will happen with Stanford and Cal; how this impacts non-college football sports such as women’s college basketball; what this will look like five years from now, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.

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