Sports Media Roundtable: The incredible WBC viewership numbers and Barry Bonds joins Netflix
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Episode 605 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. In this podcast, we discuss the remarkable Venezuela-United States World Baseball Classic viewership numbers -- the championship game averaged 10.78 million viewers across FOX and Fox Deportes; what the viewership numbers mean; how much of an Olympic carryover was this number; what outlet will get future tournaments; Barry Bonds officially joined Netflix; our initial thoughts on NCAA Tournament coverage, and more.
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| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Sports Media podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm your host, Richard Dyge. |
| 0:31.7 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:36.4 | This is our usual Saturday media roundtable, and we're running it back. |
| 0:43.9 | The viewership and the ratings were so good, we decided to once again play the same teams. |
| 0:52.0 | John Lewis, founder of Edversports Media Watch, Derek Futterman, Armand Brody, work with John at Sports Media Watch Watch various positions for both of them. Derek |
| 0:56.7 | obviously doing a lot of multimedia features, our month co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast, |
| 1:02.4 | as well as do writing columns for them as well. Gentlemen, welcome back. Thanks for having us. |
| 1:09.9 | You guys work cheap. Trust me. I thank you. Um, Gentlemen, welcome back. Thanks for having us. |
| 1:11.8 | You guys work cheap. |
| 1:12.5 | Trust me. |
| 1:13.8 | I thank you. |
| 1:15.3 | All right. |
| 1:18.8 | John, we'll start with you and we'll start on this topic. |
| 1:23.3 | Venezuela, United States, World Baseball Classic final, |
| 1:27.4 | averaged 10.78 million viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes. Obviously, largest audience for the event, |
| 1:30.8 | shatters the previous viewership highs during that tournament. That's a massive number. It's a great |
| 1:39.3 | number for baseball. I have some theories as to why that number existed. I'll just throw it out there |
| 1:44.2 | and then you guys can comment on that. I really do think there was, this is part of this is a big |
| 1:48.5 | momentum play from the Olympics. I think that the U.S. winning their gold medal games, I think |
| 1:55.9 | people are really excited about those, particularly obviously the men's game, just given how that |
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