With the first college football playoff bracket published, we do a mini-podcast with Chris Vannini, who covers national college football for The Athletic and is the co-host of The Athletic’s “Until Saturday” podcast. The discussion hits how the current matchups would do viewership-wise; the challenge of the first round going up against the NFL on D…

Episode 447 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Lindsay Gottlieb, the head women’s basketball coach at USC and one of the best coaches in college basketball. Her team advanced to the Elite Eight last year and opens the season No. 3 in the AP preseason poll. In this podcast, we discuss how Gottlieb thinks about the role of medi…

Episode 446 of the Sports Media Podcast features the co-hosts of The Sports Spectrum podcast, an interview-driven show featuring stories at the intersection of faith and sports. The guests are Matt Forte, who played 10 years in the NFL as a running back for the Bears and Jets, and becomes a co-host on Nov. 5, and Jason Romano, a former ESPN produce…

Episode 445 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jerry Bailey, the Hall of Fame jockey and analyst for NBC's horse racing coverage. In this podcast Bailey discusses his months-long preparation for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which will air this weekend from Del Mar, Calif., across NBC, USA Network and Peacock; where …

Episode 444 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Michaela Hammond and Chris Stone, two of the founders of OffBall, a new sports culture brand featuring a website, newsletter, and social feed. You can find them at offball.news. In this podcast, Hammond and Stone discuss what Off Ball is and its attempt to provide a curated hub f…

Episode 443 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci, who are serving as dugout reporters for Fox Sports for the Dodgers-Yankees World Series. Both Verducci and Rosenthal have long careers as accomplished writers; Verducci works for Sports Illustrated while Rosenthal writes for The Athletic. (I have w…

Episode 442 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Sports Business Journal managing editor/newsletters Austin Karp and Sports Media Watch founder and editor Jon Lewis. In this podcast, we discuss our World Series predictions for viewership; how good a World Series this is for MLB as far as media exposure; what is a realistic numb…

Episode 441 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Laura Gentile, the former head of marketing at ESPN and the founder of the espnW brand. She left ESPN this past year to launch her own company, lauragentile.studio, an independent marketing consultancy. In this podcast, Gentile discusses why big money is flowing into women’s spor…

Episode 440 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Allison Galer, an attorney and the founder and president of Disrupt the Game, her sports and entertainment agency. Galer’s client list includes ESPN analyst Chiney Ogwumike, WNBA players Kelsey Mitchell, Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, and Jacey Sheldon, among others, women’s college ba…

Episode 439 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, Deitsch and Lewis discuss Roger Goodell telling the AP that it would not surprise him if a Super Bowl was played abroad; why the networks might not want that Super Bowl over a U.S.-based one; the Internatio…

Episode 438 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Ryan Fitzpatrick, a pregame, halftime, and postgame analyst for Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football coverage. The former NFL quarterback joined the streamer in 2022. In this podcast, Fitzgerald discusses his journey from player to broadcaster; the value of having played …

Episode 437 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Chris Johnston, an NHL Insider for The Athletic, TSN (Canada), and the host of The Chris Johnston Show for SDPN. In this podcast, Johnston discusses the media health of the NHL; what the robust Stanley Cup Final viewership numbers from last year could mean heading forward; what h…

Episode 436 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal managing editor/newsletters Austin Karp. In this podcast we examine the NFL’s viewership rate so far; Zach Lowe’s layoff and Adrian Wojnarowski’s retirement from ESPN, the NFL International Series; MLB’s postseason i…

Episode 435 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Tom Rinaldi, a reporter on multiple Fox Sports properties including the NFL where he works on the top team. Rinaldi has a new serialized podcast series out: “Tom Rinaldi Presents: Sacred Acre.” The six-part series goes into the life and murder of Ed Thomas, a longtime high school…

Episode 434 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jason Jones, a staff writer for The Athletic, covering the nexus of sports and culture and Jimmy Traina, the host of the SI Media with Jimmy Traina and a writer at SI.com. In this podcast Jones and Traina discuss the six-part docu-series that premiered on Netflix last week about …

Episode 433 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Adnan Virk, who will be a host for Amazon's Prime Monday Night Hockey. Amazon will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024-25 NHL season in Canada. In this podcast Virk discusses how he landed the Prime Video job; Amazon's foray into the …

Episode 432 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kalyn Kahler, a senior NFL Writer for ESPN. Kahler is the host and lead reporter for "Spiraled," a six-part podcast off her written series on former NFL players who left their old lives behind for an extreme religious group. In this podcast Kahler discusses her reporting on NFL p…

Episode 431 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, the editor of Sports Media Watch and Brad Nessler, the lead game-caller for CBS’s Big Ten college football coverage. In this podcast Lewis discusses Adrian Wojnarowski's retirement from ESPN; what ESPN might do next; and the NFL viewership through Week 2. Nessler discu…

Episode 430 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Chloe Peterson, the Indiana Fever reporter for the IndyStar. In this podcast Peterson discusses covering the Fever in 2024; her access to the team; how often Caitlin Clark speaks with the media; how she got her assignment; covering Caitlin Clark in college; what her game day is l…

Episode 429 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features former NBA player and philanthropist Shane Battier and Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta, two of the hosts along with former NFL quarterback Alex Smith of a new podcast, “Glue Guys.” The focus of the podcast is to have an open forum to discuss business, teamwork, leadership, res…

Episode 428 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Boston Globe media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal managing editor/newsletters Austin Karp. In this podcast we discuss Tom Brady’s broadcasting debut for Fox; whether he will improve; how he might sound for Week 10; how much of Brady's debut was shaped by Greg Olsen;…

Episode 427 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Troy Aikman, the lead analyst for ESPN/ABC’s Monday Night Football. His season starts off on Sept. 9 for the Jets at 49ers. In this podcast we discuss preparation for Jets-Niners; reasonable expectation for Aaron Rodgers this season; how Troy looks at a broadcasting schedule; wha…

Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with Troy Aikman, the lead analyst for ESPN/ABC’s Monday Night Football. The full interview will be available on Monday. In this clip, Aikman discusses how he viewed the nexus of Taylor Swift and the NFL last season. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more…

Episode 426 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features broadcaster Noah Eagle, who serves as the play-by-play voice of Big Ten Saturday Night, recently worked as the play-by-play voice of Team USA Men’s and Women’s Basketball at the Paris Olympics and will call the Packers-Eagles game on Peacock on Sept 6 in São Paulo, Brazil. In thi…

Episode 425 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: Stewart Mandel, the editor-in-chief of The Athletic's college football coverage and the co-host of “The Audible" podcast, and Chris Vannini, who covers national college football for The Athletic and his the co-host of The Athletic’s “Until Saturday” podcast. In this p…