Our thoughts on the coverage of the Winter Olympics — and people on social media lose their minds about women’s sports

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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Sports, News, Sports News

4.5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 594 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch, and Austin Karp, the sports media writer for Sports Business Journal. In this podcast, we discuss our broad takeaways from the Olympics; the viewership of the Games; what this means for the L.A. Games in 2028; the WNBA and NWSL becoming a key element of ESPN’s Sunday night sports strategy this summer for nine weeks of Sunday night WNBA and NWSL games under the banner “Women’s Sports Sundays; the NBA All Star Game and the Daytona viewership number and how we feel about NASCAR’s viewership future, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

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0:39.4	Welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:40.6	I'm your host, Richard Deich.
0:42.2	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:43.8	This is a roundtable.
0:46.9	Saturday roundtables, by the way, now getting regular.
0:49.1	The feedback and downloads have been awesome.
0:54.2	So we will continue to do this as long as the, you know,
0:57.7	demand for this mediocre niche podcast continues.
1:02.7	But I have guests who are absolutely not mediocre or middle of the road.
1:06.5	Austin Karp is the sports media writer for Sports Business Journal.
1:10.4	John Lewis is the founder and editor of Sports Media Watch.
1:13.1	Welcome, fellas. Hey, thanks for having me.
1:17.4	On what people want to hear on their Saturdays, Richard. Of course, that's what they want to hear.
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