Here’s a First Look from our upcoming podcast with Jessie Katz, the Head of iHeart Women's Sports Division. The full podcast will be out on Wednesday. In this preview clip, Katz discusses why the women's sports audio space has expanded massively in the last two years. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Episode 605 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch; Armand Broady, the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast and a contributor to SMW, and Derek Futterman, a multimedia writer and producer for Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss the remarkable Venezuela-United States World Baseball Classic viewership numbers -- the championship game averaged 10.78 million viewers across FOX and Fox Deportes; what the viewership numbers mean; how much of an Olympic carryover was this number; what outlet will get future tournaments; Barry Bonds officially joined Netflix; our initial thoughts on NCAA Tournament coverage, and more.

Episode 605 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Front Office Sports women's basketball writer Annie Constable; Doug Feinberg, the lead women's basketball writer for the AP; Jackie Powell, who works at The IX Sports covering the New York Liberty and the WNBA and hosts the IX Sports Podcast and Alexa Philippou, a women's basketball writer for ESPN. These four reporters were instrumental in providing first-hand reporting on the WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreement on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement. In this podcast, the group discusses the reporting experience; what it was like to interview subjects at 3:30 a.m. ET; how to learn about sports labor agreements on the fly; evaluating the deal from both the players' and management sides; how frantic WNBA free agency will be in the next couple of weeks; the upcoming WNBA Draft; the salary cap jumping to $7 million (up from $1.5 million in 2025); the current owners of the WNBA; whether they would take Sarah Strong over Paige Bueckers if they were building a team and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Episode 604 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Talia Goodman, a national women's college basketball and recruiting reporter for On3 and Rivals, and Sabreena Merchant, a women's basketball writer for The Athletic and one of the co-hosts of "No Offseason: The Athletic Women's Basketball Show." In this podcast, Goodman and Merchant discuss women's basketball viewership and ESPN networks airing 20 women's college basketball  games that delivered more than 500,000 viewers; what people in the sport are talking about on the ground; where the two reporters are assigned during the women's tournament; why the winner this year will come from UConn, UCLA, Texas or South Carolina; why UConn has been so dominant; the most dangerous teams on the No. 2 seed line; whether UCLA deserved to be the No. 1 overall seed; whether we would take Sarah Strong over Paige Beckers in all-class Draft; who the Toronto Tempo should be focused on with their first-ever WNBA Draft pick; our temperature on the WNBA's collective bargaining and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Episode 603 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features CBS Sports college basketball broadcasters Andrew Catalon and Steve Lappas. This will be their 11th year calling the NCAA men's basketball Tournament together. The duo (along with Evan Washburn) will work the NCAA men's basketball tournament through the Regional Finals. In this podcast, Catalon and Lappas discuss why their partnership works; how they prepare for the NCAA tournament; getting the
March Madness assignment an hour before the brackets come out; what it meant professionally to call No.16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson’s monumental upset over No.1 Purdue in 2023; the challenges of learning the lower-seeded teams; a quick look at Duke, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, and UConn; who the best player in college basketball is right now as it relates to potential pro success; Catalon's work on The Masters; Lappas's daughter, Kristen Lappas, who has become an accomplished documentarian; getting rest between calling March Madness games and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Episode 602 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch; Armand Broady, the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast and a contributor to SMW, and Derek Futterman, a multimedia writer and producer for Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss the fantastic viewership numbers for the World Baseball Classic and how high they can get; whether Pat McAfee is now the face of ESPN; McAfee's success with NFL free agency programs; Tony Dungy is out at NBC; Matt Vasgersian, C.C. Sabathia, Hunter Pence and Lauren Shehadi working baseball for Netflix; The PGA Tour wanting to double the number of signature events and expand fields to 120 players; the PWHL making its U.S. national television debut later this month on ION and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Episode 601 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Elsa Garrison, a Sport staff photographer for Getty Images based in New York and New Jersey. Garrison has been with Getty Images for nearly 30 years and is the photographer behind the viral photo of Jack Hughes following the U.S. gold medal win over Canada in men's hockey at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. In this podcast, Garrison discusses why her photo connected with so many people; how the photo has impacted her life; how she was able to procure the image; her current assignments including shooting many New York area teams, including the Knicks, Nets, Yankees, Mets, Liberty, Devils and Sirens; some of her other famous images such as a photo she took of Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade celebrating on the podium with Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles during a Medal Ceremony at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games; her career with Getty; the growth of women sport photographers during her career; her meeting with Hughes after taking the photo, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Episode 600 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kenzie Lalonde, the bureau reporter in Montreal for TSN (Canada) as well as one of the PWHL's lead broadcasters. Lalonde recently called the Olympic women's hockey gold medal game for the CBC. In this podcast, Lalonde discusses her recently concluded assignment as the lead play-by-play voice for the women's Olympic hockey tournament for CBC; the hockey setup in Milan; where the U.S. stands as a women's hockey program compared to the Canadians; calling PWHL games; where the PWHL is right now in its evolution; what she expects heading forward regarding job prospects for women who want to work in hockey media; her work as TSN’s bureau reporter in Montreal for three seasons, primarily responsible for covering the Canadiens and Alouettes; the Canadiens playoff prospects, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

Here’s a First Look from our upcoming podcast with Kenzie Lalonde, the bureau reporter in Montreal for TSN (Canada) as well one of the PWHL's lead broadcasters. Lalonde recently called the Olympic women's hockey gold medal game for the CBC.  The full podcast will be out later this week. In this preview clip, Lalonde discusses why and how she believes the PWHL will benefit from the Milan-Cortina Olympics. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.