Al Michaels and SBJ's Austin Karp
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Episode 622 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Al Michaels, the lead game-caller for Prime Video's football package since 2022 and an iconic figure in sports broadcasting. Michaels has called prime-time NFL football for the past 40 seasons. He is followed by Sports Business Journal media reporter Austin Karp. In this podcast, Michaels discusses Amazon's schedule this season; how he feels about the Lions at Bills opener and the number of times he has been on the call when a new NFL stadium has opened; Prime Video's very strong end of season schedule including Texans vs. Eagles on Christmas Eve in Philadelphia, followed by Ravens vs. Bengals in Cincinnati on New Year’s Eve; what it's like to call games on Black Friday games; the NFL playing games in London, Paris Madrid, Munich, Melbourne, Rio and Mexico City; his fondness for newspapers; watching the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal with Johnny Bench and Pete Rose; how he is approaching his career at this point and why he has happy to be on a year by year deal and more. Karp comes on to discuss the NFL schedule; what each of the networks said about their allotment of games; the NFL's post-schedule conference call with reporters and a shoutout to ESPN PR staffer Mac Nwulu. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer is Jake Galley. Two guests on this episode. First up, he doesn't need an introduction, even though I'll give him one. Now, Michael's, of course, one of the preeminent voices of sports broadcasting in the history of pretty much anybody's life who is listening to this. He is, of course, the lead play-by-play broadcaster for Prime Videos coverage |
| 0:21.8 | of the NFL. Al comes on to talk about the schedule that just got released on Thursday. |
| 0:28.4 | Prime Video Schedule this year is really, really good and kicking off with the lines at Bill's |
| 0:34.1 | opening the Bill's new stadium. Alan, I get into the entire schedule. |
| 0:38.5 | He tells a couple stories as only he can. |
| 0:42.4 | And then we finish up on just how he's thinking about things in terms of his own |
| 0:45.9 | future. |
| 0:46.3 | And essentially, he is very much year by year at this point. |
| 0:49.5 | But I'll let him explain that to you. |
| 0:51.0 | So Al Michaels, who's has been on this podcast a number of times, leads us off. He is followed by Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, given the schedule |
| 0:58.8 | release and given there's always really interesting media related items about that. I wanted to |
| 1:03.5 | bring Austin on. He did some great reporting on how the networks thought about their schedules for |
| 1:08.3 | SBJ. So we had about a 20-minute conversation on that |
| 1:12.2 | if you're into the schedule release and why things happened as they did. So I'm Michael's to |
| 1:16.4 | start, Austin Carp to finish coming up on the sports media podcast. Welcome to the sports |
| 1:23.4 | media podcast. I'm your host Richard Deich. My producer is Jake Galley. Our guest really needs no |
| 1:29.7 | introduction. And if I was to give him the entire introduction, it would take literally like 45 |
| 1:34.5 | minutes. I'm Michaels is the lead game caller for Prime Videos Thursday night football. He has been |
| 1:41.2 | that lead game caller since 2022. He has called primetime NFL football |
| 1:47.6 | for the past 40 seasons. He has been on this podcast a number of times to all the kids out there. |
| 1:53.5 | Just Google Al Michaels and you will see all his many, many accomplishments. Before we get into the |
| 2:00.7 | prime video schedule, which, you know, is the single, not the |
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