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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Episode 616 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 NBA and NHL viewership numbers for the regular season and playoffs and whether we think the leagues have interest momentum; the WNBA releasing its schedule and what it means to have this many national games; the Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini story and what might be next; whether the public can trust the information insiders provide; Mike Tomlin joining NBC and whether we think he will be good, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Ditch. |
| 0:37.7 | My producer is Bob Tabador. |
| 0:39.3 | This is our Saturday Media Roundtable, and I have brought back by popular demand, |
| 0:46.7 | these three gentlemen who have provided me with excellent downloads. |
| 0:50.8 | I mean, how can I not come bring them back when the public says bring them back? |
| 0:55.5 | John Lewis is the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. |
| 0:58.7 | Armand Brody works with Sports Media Watch as well. |
| 1:01.3 | He could also hear him as a co-host on that podcast, as well as obviously writing pieces for the site. |
| 1:06.9 | Same thing with Derek Futerman, who, again, does a lot of multimedia stuff for sports media watch |
| 1:13.7 | I feel like Derek and Armand John need like formal titles because I always find myself stumbling over |
| 1:18.4 | how to bring them in and if I just could say like staff writer senior writer it would just be so much |
| 1:23.2 | easier well yeah I guess I guess it better get strutted on that, right? Yeah, I mean, do the old Sports |
| 1:29.2 | Illustrated thing, like just give a title. I mean, don't change the money or anything. Just create |
| 1:33.6 | fake titles, like, you know, associate editor of the Olympics. Oh, great title. Fantastic. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm so excited. Or ESPN, you know, you know how many executive vice presidents or at ESPN? |
| 1:44.0 | It's like 7,000. Okay. Yeah. All right. Anyway, no one needs my tomfoolery as they say, all right. Well, there's a lot to talk about on this one. |
| 1:52.4 | Here's where I want to start, John, and I'll start with you. Nobody better to have on this podcast on this topic. Can you give the audience a sense of where the NBA viewership numbers and the NHL |
| 2:02.8 | viewership numbers are as we started? We are in the playoffs now for both, but both leagues |
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