In this featured clip of our longform interview with ESPN/ABC Monday Night Football broadcaster Joe Buck that was published on Nov. 16, the play by play broadcaster discusses his longtime relationship with partner Troy Aikman. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
 
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Featured Clip: Joe Buck

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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This episode of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Austin Karp, managing editor/newsletters for Sports Business Journal and Ben Fischer, who covers the NFL and all other pro football news for Sports Business Journal. In this podcast, Karp and Fischer discuss the NFL’s schedule and which media partners did well; the importance of the 4:25 p.m. ET window; the Monday Night Football schedule; the power of the Chiefs for broadcasters; Netflix’s moving into the NFL; the international games for the NFL including Brazil and what it means for the future; Caitlin Clark’s WNBA viewership debut and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
 
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Mini-pod: The 2024 NFL Schedule Review

Episode 399 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Bryan Curtis, the Editor at Large at The Ringer and the co-host of the Press Box Podcast with David Shoemaker. In this podcast we discuss the NBA rights and what a future featuring ESPN, Amazon and NBC might look like; Charles Barkley as a free agent; the best place for Barkley; why ESPN can't figure out its NBA pre and postgame show; Netflix potentially acquiring the NFL and what that would mean for Netflix; the upcoming WNBA season as a media play; whether the NBA would benefit from more or less media rights partners; whether journalism can make money; if words still have profit; becoming a lifestyle brand for survival and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
 
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The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis

Episode 398 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kevin Egan, the lead host for MLS 360, the weekly whip-around show on MLS Season Pass. In this podcast, Egan discusses the premise of MLS Season Pass; how a whip-around show for soccer works; his on-air colleagues Sacha Kljestan, Kaylyn Kyle, and Bradley Wright-Phillips; the transition from calling MLS matches to hosting; the challenge of maintaining a career in the US as a soccer broadcaster; what Leo Messi has meant to MLS; working for WWE for three years; the challenges of calling pro wrestling; why he left WWE; advice from John Cena; how welcoming Becky Lynch, Edge and others were to him and more.  You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
 
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Kevin Egan on hosting MLS 360 and transitioning from calling WWE matches

Episode 397 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two writers from The Athletic who cover women’s basketball — Sabreena Merchant and Ben Pickman. They are also panelists on The Athletic’s Women’s Basketball Show podcast. In this podcast, Merchant and Pickman discuss what they are seeing as far as local and national WNBA media coverage in 2024; what the preseason has been like covering; the upcoming WNBA national schedule; how they anticipate Caitlin Clark, Cameron Brink, Kamilla Cardoso, Angel Reese and other rookies will do in Year One; the dominance of the Las Vegas Aces; the people in WNBA media are doing under-promoted good work, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
 
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What will covering the WNBA be like in the era of Caitlin Clark? The guests are The Athletic’s Sabreena Merchant and Ben Pickman

This episode of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast we discuss viewership for the NBA playoffs and NHL playoffs; why the Knicks might not be as great a viewership draw as you might think; whether people will tune in specifically to see Anthony Edwards; the Bruins as a viewership draw; what the NHL would like to see for the finals; the F-1 Miami rating; the last NBA media rights package up for grabs between NBC or WBD and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify and more.
 
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Featured Clip: Joe Buck

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