The NBA's viewership story; MLB's Jackie Robinson miss

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Episode 497 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable discussion with Donnovan Bennett of Sportsnet (Canada) and Austin Karp, the managing editor/newsletters for SBJ. In this podcast we discuss the NBA's regular season viewership numbers; ABC, ESPN and TNT averaged 1.53 million viewers, slightly below last season’s four-year high; the NBA playoffs and our viewership expectations; the prospect of an Thunder-Cavs final; the Masters viewership of 12.9 million for the final round and what does it portend anything for golf; MLB's miss on Jackie Robinson and how it relates to Jackie Robinson Day; can WBD get your attention with its media rights sports portfolio. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host Richard Deich.
1:14.6	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
1:16.4	This is a sports media roundtable.
1:19.2	And it is an international one because we have bringing back Donovan Bennett.
1:23.7	The responses to the last time Donovan Bennett were on this podcast were just overwhelming.
1:27.8	It was like the Euras talk.
1:29.0	I had to basically, it was just too much fanfare at that point.
1:32.2	He, of course, is from Sportsnet, Canada, a writer, podcaster, host, on-air person,
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