Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Episode 356 of the Sports Media Podcast features Fox NFL producer Richie Zyontz and Fox NFL director Rich Russo. They are the lead production staffers on Fox’s top NFL team.  In this podcast, Zyontz and Russo discuss their second year working with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen; doing Dallas-Miami; how having two sideline reporters impacts a broadcast; navigating Taylor Swift if she’s at a game; Fox’s 30th year of football; rules analysts; a shared love of Jack Buck; the amount of cameras for playoff games 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

Episode 355 of the Sports Media Podcast features The Boston Globe reporter Chad Finn. In this podcast we discuss Al Michaels not getting a playoff game for NBC; HBO’s “Real Sports” ends; where we think the NBA’s TV deal might head;  the possibility of Bill Belichick taking a TV job; CFP semifinal viewership predictions; AI In Sports Journalism/Media. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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

Episode 354 of the Sports Media Podcast features MLB reporter Fabian Ardaya, who covers the Dodgers for The Athletic. In this podcast, Ardaya discusses the challenges and opportunities of covering Ohtani; how the signing changes his job; the Dodgers’ pursuit; what kind of access he anticipates he’ll have to Ohtani; the baseball questions that now exist with the Dodgers; the possibility of covering Ohtani in Seoul and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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

In this featured clip of our longform interview with ESPN's Laura Rutledge that was published on Dec. 8, the ESPN host and reporter discusses the difference of reporting on an NFL sideline versus a college football sideline. 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

Episode 353 of the Sports Media Podcast features Laura Rutledge, the host of NFL Live and SEC Nation as well as a reporter for Monday Night Football and the NFL Draft. In this podcast, Rutledge discusses how she defines a good sports television host; morphing between NFL and SEC hosting and sideline reporting on Monday Night Football; her professional development at ESPN; living in the North after growing up in the South; women analyzing the NFL on television and how rare that is; the difference between being on the sidelines for college football versus the NFL; her upcoming contract; the competitiveness of working at ESPN, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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

Episode 352 of the Sports Media Podcast features Ernie Johnson, the host of TNT’s “Inside The NBA” and a 2023 inductee into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In this podcast, Johnson discusses his Hall of Fame honor; the NBA’s In-Season Tournament; how much he thinks about the upcoming NBA media rights negotiations; why he thinks WBD will retain NBA rights; how father, Ernie Johnson Sr., being one of the finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award; being the son of a famous person; when Ernie decided to become a broadcaster; Ernie Sr.’s playcalling style and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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

In this featured clip of our longform interview with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports broadcaster Ernie Johnson that was publish on Dec. 5, the play by play broadcaster discusses his thoughts on the upcoming NBA media rights and why he is confident WBD will retain. 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

Sports Media Watch editor and founder Jon Lewis and Sports Business Journal managing editor/digital Austin Karp discuss the college football pregame wars; the viewership number for Michigan-Ohio State; the NFL’s Thanksgiving Day ratings; Black Friday viewership; NBA In-Season Tournament; Formula One viewership and more.  You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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

Episode 351 of the Sports Media Podcast features Randy Scott, who co-anchors SportsCenter:AM, the 7-10 a.m. ET slot. In this podcast, Scott discusses his series of tweets which made public his mental health struggles of the past couple of years; how he used therapy to heal; losing 30 pounds in a month and not sleeping; how SportsCenter anchor Nicole Briscoe helped him; the reaction of colleagues; how he approaches things today; working a morning SportsCenter shift; being raised by a Naval aviator; why he wanted to work at SportsCenter and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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

Episode 350 of the Sports Media Podcast features Pac-12 Networks, Tennis Channel and NBC Olympics play by play broadcaster Ted Robinson. In this podcast Robinson discusses his final weeks as a college football broadcaster for the Pac-12 Networks; how broadcast crews found out about the end of the Pac-12; the loss of jobs for staffers; working Olympic broadcasts since Nagano; calling dozens of major tennis events including the French Open, US Open, Wimbledon, and the Gold Medal match at the 2012 Olympics; calling Team USA baseball Gold Medal contest in the 2000 Sydney Games; being the voice of the Federer-Nadal Wimbledon final in 2008; calling Serena and Venus’s Williams Wimbledon and French Open wins; Serena’s dominance; the keys to calling tennis; working with Bill Walton and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, 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