Episode 276 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Boston Globe sports media writer and columnist Chad Finn and  journalist, best-selling author and podcast host Jim Miller. In this podcast, Finn and Deitsch discuss Fox’s Super Bowl LVII broadcast; how Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen did; what Olsen’s performance means for Tom Brady; Terry Bradshaw and Chris Berman; Rhianna’s halftime performance; Fox hiring Derek Jeter as an MLB studio analyst; Super Bowl Media Week and leaks; and more. Miller discusses the passing of Barry Sacks, the longtime ESPN coordinating producer and mentor of many on-air talent; Bob Iger saying ESPN will now operate in a standalone silo within the larger entertainment conglomerate; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.
 
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Chad Finn and Richard Deitsch on Fox’s Super Bowl coverage and James Andrew Miller on the passing of Barry Sacks and Robert Iger’s return

The Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch is a weekly show that features interviews with members of the sports media about their work, as well as roundtables with sports media reporters about television, digital, audio/radio, print, and other forms of media. You can read Richard’s work at The Athletic.

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Episode 403 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features ESPN and NBC basketball analyst, host and reporter LaChina Robinson and author and Awful Announcing columnist Lyndsey D'Arcangelo. In this podcast, Robinson and D'Arcangelo the media coverage of Caitlin Clark; why the conversation has veered into the spaces it has; what they have seen as far as access this year with the WNBA; Toronto and the Bay Area’s WNBA expansion teams; LaChina’s Olympic assignment in Paris; who they would pick to build a WNBA franchise, and more.You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
 
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The media coverage of Caitlin Clark and the WNBA

This episode of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kat Jayme and Asia Youngman, the directors of “I’m Just Here for the Riot,” a documentary film about the 2011 riot that occurred in Vancouver following Game 7 of the Stanley Cup between the Canucks and Bruins. The film, an ESPN 30 for 30 presentation, premieres June 4 at 7:30 pm ET on ESPN and will stream on ESPN+. In this podcast, the filmmakers discuss why they wanted to explore this subject more than a decade later; how they procured the on-the-ground footage; interviewing the rioters; people taking footage for posterity and vanity; the motivation for the riots; how ESPN become involved in the project; the Vancouver Grizzlies NBA team and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
 
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From 'The PBP: Voices of Baseball' (subscribe here): This week's episode offers a different perspective on baseball play-by-play. Richard Deitsch of The Athletic joins Matt Spiegel to weigh in on what makes baseball broadcasting great and unique, as well as which styles of voices resonate with fans the most.
 
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Richard Deitsch Weighs In on the State of Baseball Play-by-Play | 'The PBP: Voices of Baseball'

Episode 402 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features CNBC Sports Business reporter Alex Sherman. In this podcast, Sherman discusses the latest on the NBA media rights; where Warner Bros. Discovery stands regarding matching Amazon and NBC Universal; how the NBA is thinking; whether there is risk for the NBA to have significant inventory on streaming; the prospects of a fourth package; the impact on WBD's carriage fees/stock price; how AEW might be impacted by the NBA  negotiations; whether the WNBA should stay connected with the NBA as far as media rights negotiations and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
 
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CNBC’s Alex Sherman on NBA media rights

Episode 401 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features CBC Sports senior contributor Shireen Ahmed and Toronto Star NBA columnist and reporter Doug Smith. In this podcast we discuss Toronto being granted an expansion franchise with the WNBA; our impressions of the franchise’s initial press conference; whether the WNBA can succeed in Toronto and how that can be done; Shireen breaking the story of the league coming to Canada; how the team will be covered and where the sports media ecosystem in Canada is for it; whether the Raptors will be involved in any structural way; what the next two years should look like for the franchise; how WNBA players would feel about playing in another country; the 2027 WNBA Draft and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
 
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Chad Finn and Richard Deitsch on Fox’s Super Bowl coverage and James Andrew Miller on the passing of Barry Sacks and Robert Iger’s return

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