SBJ's Ben Fischer on the NFL's biggest business stories — and whether we could ever see a 20-game regular season
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Episode 564 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Ben Fischer, who covers the NFL and all other professional football news for Sports Business Journal. In this podcast, Fischer discusses his reporting on "The Next Commissioner: The vexing task of finding the next generation of sports leadership"; who is line to ultimately succeed Roger Goodell; the NFL's international playbook; what he thought of the Spain game; the NFL's research claiming there are about 11 million NFL fans in Spain; 19 million fans in Germany and 36 million in Brazil; where the NFL would like to expand its international inventory; playing in Australia next year; whether we could ever see a 20th regular season game; the NFL's viewership in 2025; the league's relationship with Netflix and more. 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. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm your host, Richard Ditch. |
| 0:10.4 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:12.1 | One guest this week, but one of the best when it comes to covering the business of the NFL. |
| 0:17.2 | Ben Fisher covers the National Football League and all of the professional football news for the sports business journal. |
| 0:25.4 | And we're going to get into a number of issues on this podcast, including a really, really interesting series that SBJ just did, where some of their writers took a look at not only who might be the next commissioner of certain sports, |
| 0:38.5 | but perhaps more importantly, what will be needed when it comes to that position. And with that, |
| 0:43.5 | I bring in Ben Fisher. Ben, welcome. Thank you, Richard. Regular listener. Happy to be on. |
| 0:48.4 | Always appreciate you, Ben, your work, and thanks for coming on a couple of times. All right. |
| 0:52.3 | So like I mentioned, SBJ has this piece. |
| 0:56.2 | I think like the subhead is to the effect of the next commissioner, the vexing task of finding |
| 1:01.7 | the next generation of sports leaders. |
| 1:05.1 | You to me have given the sport that you cover, probably the, it will be the singular |
| 1:10.7 | biggest transactional news when it |
| 1:12.7 | comes to a change of commissioner whenever Roger Goodell ultimately leaves that position. |
| 1:17.8 | So for my listeners, just for a little bit of background, the last time the NFL owners |
| 1:21.8 | elected a new commissioner was in 2006, and Ben can amplify or correct me from wrong. |
| 1:28.6 | Roger Goodell's contract, I believe, ends in 2027, but there is an expectation that he will |
| 1:34.0 | continue beyond that. |
| 1:35.5 | So the reality is we're not talking about a new commissioner of the NFL, at least for a little |
| 1:40.2 | bit. |
| 1:40.8 | That said, Ben, I want to start here. |
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