Sports Media Roundtable: The media coverage of Tiger Woods, Netflix's MLB viewership and thoughts on NCAA Tournament coverage
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Episode 610 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 release Netflix MLB viewership and whether three million viewers was a good number; NCAA viewership expectations for both the men and women's tournament; ESPN expecting to change its No. 2 NFL game-calling team of Chris Fowler, Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick; Jason Kelce's increasing profile at ESPN; Fox getting a Christmas game and our long discussion on media coverage of Tiger Woods' arrest on a driving under the influence charge. 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 | I'm your host, Richard Dyke. |
| 0:14.4 | My producer is Bob Tabador. |
| 0:16.0 | As you can hear, my voice is shot. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm hoping it is a short-term illness and I will not have to go on |
| 0:24.1 | me. I.L. for a couple weeks. Thankfully, we have an excellent panel that will carry me on this |
| 0:31.3 | podcast. You've heard these guys before. They are all from Sports Media Watch, John Lewis, founder and editor. Armand Brody, multimedia player there, |
| 0:41.8 | as well as the co-host of their podcast. Derek Futterman, you've read his work in many |
| 0:46.2 | different places, and now you can read him at Sports Media Watch. The demand fellows was overwhelming. |
| 0:52.0 | This is now three times in like whatever, four weeks, |
| 0:55.6 | but the public demands you three and the public will get rewarded. Welcome back. |
| 1:00.4 | Hey, thanks for having us. Of course. All right. Yes. John. All right. This news is a touch dated |
| 1:09.2 | now, but I still want to start with it because it's |
| 1:11.0 | interesting, and this is like your site specialty. And let's talk about the Netflix |
| 1:15.3 | viewership of the MLB game. 2.97 million or 3 million, depending on how you want to read |
| 1:23.2 | that, for their Giants, Yankees debut. |
| 1:28.7 | What they prominently point to, and I think is a good story, |
| 1:31.8 | is the 18 to 49 demographic, did really, really well. |
| 1:35.3 | 1.38 million. |
| 1:37.4 | I will say, just so that there's full transparency here, |
| 1:40.5 | my initial thought was that MLB may not have been so happy with this number because the NBC number was |
| 1:48.2 | higher. I then heard from a couple people both at Netflix and MLB, and I thought they made a fair point that, |
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