The emergence of Robbie Hummel as a leading basketball voice
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Episode 563 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features NBA and college basketball analyst Robbie Hummel, who has jobs with NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Turner Sports and Big Ten Network. Regarding his NBC Sports duties, Hummel is a game analyst for Peacock and NBC situated on the bench as opposed to the traditional broadcast spot. In this podcast Hummel discusses how his "On the Bench" work is different than a conventional analyst; what that access affords him; how NBA teams have responded and whether teams have asked him not to report specific things; how he communicates with his other analyst; why men's college basketball is not as popular in the regular season as it once was; his responsibilities for CBS Sports; morphing between the college game and the pro game; working for so many networks; his work as a men’s basketball analyst for Paris 2024, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 1:12.0 | One guest on this episode, but if you are a basketball fan of the United States, |
| 1:16.2 | it is someone who's become a familiar name. |
| 1:18.7 | Robbie Hummel is a college basketball and NBA analyst for NBC, CBS, Turner, NBTN. |
| 1:25.3 | I believe I have his entire resume for the moment there correctly. As part of |
| 1:29.9 | those multiple gigs, you see him on NBC Sports's coverage of the NBA. That obviously includes |
| 1:36.4 | NBC and Peacock. His next NBA game, if I have this right, Robbie can correct me, but I believe |
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