Sports Media Roundtable: Duke and Prime Video partner up; will Russell Wilson be good on TV and where the Vrabel-Russini story goes from here.
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Episode 618 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, and Chad Finn, media writer and columnist for The Boston Globe. In this podcast we discuss Duke and Amazon's Prime Video announcing a multi-year partnership where the streamer will carry three high profile Duke non-league games against UConn, Michigan and Gonzaga; the CW partnering with ESPN Unlimited to give the broadcast network a streaming home; NBC's massive Saturday with the Kentucky Derby and Boston/Philadelphia Game 7; the NFL Draft viewership numbers; what we think of Russell Wilson's prospects as a broadcaster; why Wilson will have to be candid to convince viewers; where the Vrabel-Russini story goes from here and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm your host Richard Deich. |
| 0:48.1 | My producer is Andy Jaskowitz, filling in, as they say in sports radio for the vacationing, Bob Tabador. |
| 0:50.5 | By the way, I have no idea if Bob Tabedars on vacation. |
| 0:51.1 | I just like saying it. |
| 0:53.7 | We have the roundtable. All regulars back, but this will be an |
| 0:56.6 | interesting one because we have four instead of three. So I'm actually excited about this. |
| 1:02.3 | First up, John Lewis, founder and editor of Sports Media Watch. You've heard him on this podcast many |
| 1:06.5 | times. Armand Brody, also part of Sports Media Watch. You hear him on that podcast. He's been on this |
| 1:12.5 | podcast many times. Derek Federman also of Sports Media Watch. You can find his work on that site as well. |
| 1:18.7 | They are joined. The regulars are joined today by Chad Finn of the Boston Globe. Chad, it has been |
| 1:25.3 | a while. Has been a while, yeah. |
| 1:27.5 | It's good to be on here. All right, welcome back, Chad. I know you're probably knee deep in the main Senate race. You can't escape that political talk, but that'll be for another podcast. Yeah, I've been getting some texts from a guy in Canada about that lately. Yeah, we'll focus on sports media on this one. All right. |
| 1:45.4 | John Lewis, |
| 1:46.2 | I'm going to start with you. |
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