Sports Media Roundtable: Prime Video and NBC join ESPN for the NBA playoffs, CBS’s Masters coverage and the Russini-Vrabel story.
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Episode 613 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a media roundtable with Sports Business Journal media reporter Austin Karp, Sports Media Watch founder and editor Jon Lewis and Josh Carpenter, golf writer and media reporter for Sports Business Journal. In this podcast, we discuss the upcoming NBA playoffs and the playoffs now airing on Amazon Prime Video, NBC/Peacock and ESPN/ABC; the big questions for the new media partners; our viewership expectations; how ESPN will handle Inside The NBA; CBS’s coverage of Rory McIlroy becoming the first back-to-back Masters champion since Tiger Woods in 2001-02; what McIlroy winning means for golf interest heading forward; a discussion of the Diana Russini-Mike Vrabel story; how that story is being processed by the sports public; where the NHL has viewership teams for the playoffs 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. |
| 0:13.5 | My producer is Bob Tabador. |
| 0:16.6 | This is a sports media roundtable, and we have a trio for this particular episode. |
| 0:25.3 | We've been gracious enough to join me. |
| 0:27.1 | John Lewis, a regular on this podcast, editor and founder of sports media watch. |
| 0:32.5 | Austin Karp, media reporter for Sports Business Journal. |
| 0:37.2 | Josh Carpenter, media reporter for sports business journal Josh Carpenter |
| 0:38.1 | media reporter for sports business journal |
| 0:41.0 | but probably if you know Josh Carpenter |
| 0:43.6 | you know he is sports business journal's |
| 0:45.8 | golf reporter |
| 0:46.9 | a very good person to have on this podcast |
| 0:49.1 | of course as we're just coming off |
| 0:50.7 | the masters welcome John, welcome Welcome, Josh. Thanks for having |
| 0:55.5 | Thanks, Richard. Good to be here. Hello, Richard. All right. We will start, so the order I think of |
| 1:01.4 | this is going to be, we're going to start with the NBA, and then maybe we'll do the Masters after |
| 1:06.9 | that, because we have Josh here, and then we'll go to the Rusini Vrabel story. |
| 1:12.9 | But we'll start with the NBA. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm going to start with you, John Lewis. |
| 1:16.1 | To give the audience, like just some perspective and some background, the NBA playoffs, |
| 1:22.5 | obviously we're just about to embark on them. |
| 1:25.0 | This is a very different year. |
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