Richard Deitsch on Latest Sports Media News

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Episode 533 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with The Athletic's media reporter, Richard Deitsch, about all the latest sports media news.

Topics covered include why NFL playoff ratings have been down, NFL broadcasters, what Deion Sanders coaching the Cowboys would mean for networks, Tom Brady's alleged "conflict of interest" as a partial Raiders owner calling a Lions game while trying to hire Detroit offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson, a disappointing college football playoff rating, Notre Dame's national appeal, the usefulness of NFL rules analysts in the booth, the WWE's new partnership with Netflix and more.

Following Deitsch, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week's subjects include NFL betting, the NFL Divisional playoff games, Chris Russo meeting Timothee Chalamét on the red carpet for "A Complete Unknown," a Jerry Springer documentary, Sal getting in trouble at home and much more

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Trayna.
0:05.9	Thank you so much for listening.
0:08.0	We have Richard Deich from The Athletic to go through all of the latest sports media news.
0:14.0	We covered a ton of topics with Richard, all the latest in sports media.
0:17.6	And then, of course, my buddy Salakata follows Deich for our train of thoughts
0:23.0	segment. A quick thing, we taped last week's podcast on a Tuesday, came out on a Thursday,
0:29.8	and when we taped on that Tuesday, I didn't really know the severity of what was going on in
0:34.5	Southern California with those fires, obviously completely
0:37.8	horrific and heartbreaking situation there as it went on through the week.
0:43.2	And felt bad it wasn't able to mention it and wanted to just say quickly, obviously a lot of
0:50.0	people are helping out in various ways.
0:57.7	I've seen a ton of charities set up and set up and people asking for donations and everything. I just want to point out a specific one here because
1:02.4	it's in the sports media world and I think it's really cool. Kevin Burckhardt and Aaron Andrews
1:08.4	from Fox have said something up. It's through the Red Cross. If you go to Kevin Burkart and Aaron Andrews from Fox have said something up.
1:11.4	It's through the Red Cross.
1:12.7	If you go to Kevin Burckhart's Twitter, you can find it there.
1:17.2	I had retweeted it.
1:18.1	So if you scroll through my Twitter, you can find it there too.
1:20.9	There's a link in Kevin's bio.
1:23.5	And basically what Kevin and Aaron Andrews have set up is if you make any donation, $10, I think, is the minimum donation.
1:32.8	If you make any donation, any donation over $10, you automatically get put into sort of a raffle, I guess, for lack of a better word, where you can then win two tickets to a 20-25 regular season
1:47.2	game, two-night hotels stay, and dinner with Aaron and Kevin next season. So whether you donate
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