Netflix gets WBD — what's it mean for sports? — and ESPN and Fox Sports play games with college football press releases

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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Sports, News, Sports News

4.5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Episode 569 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Austin Karp of the Sports Business Journal and Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss Netflix to buy Warner Bros. in a $72 billion deal and what it means or might not mean for those sports properties; whether Netflix will go more all-in on sports; the future of TNT Sports as an entity; the interminable World Cup draw show; why we think Fox made a great move bringing in Rebecca Lowe and Thierry Henry, the battle between ESPN and Fox Sports PR departments as far as college football pregame viewership and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

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1:03.7	Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dij. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
1:11.7	This is a special Saturday edition of this podcast.
1:15.3	I'm not sure we've ever done that before.
1:17.0	Trying a couple different new things.
1:18.4	But I wanted to at least do 20, 25 minutes because some pretty significant news happened on Friday.
1:25.5	And that was Netflix announcing that it's reached a deal to buy a pretty
1:32.2	significant chunk of Warner Brothers Discovery. I believe the total enterprise value of that deal
1:38.8	is, at least based on CNBC's reporting, $82.7 billion. will acquire Warner Brothers Film, Studio and streaming service, HBO Max.
1:49.6	The important thing, and this is what we'll talk about in this podcast,
1:52.7	One Brother's Discovery will still move forward with its previously planned spinout of Discovery
1:57.6	Global, and that will include the portfolio of pay TV networks such as TNT and
2:02.8	CNN, and that's where our world comes in. I bring in Austin Karp of the Sports Business
2:08.0	Daily and John Lewis of Sports Media Watch. John and Austin, welcome. Thanks for having us.
2:14.7	Hello, Richard. Hello, Austin and John. All right, John, I want to start with you because you've already actually, as I'm taping this,
2:20.5	as we are taping this, I should say on Friday late, you've already posted on this.
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