# Sports Media Roundtable: Can Victor Wembanyama follow LeBron James and Steph Curry as the NBA's top media draw?; how valuable are the NFL's international games?; the NHL's TV windows

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610/sports-media-roundtable-can-victor-wembanyama-follow-lebron-james-and-steph-curry-as-the-nba-s-top-media-draw-how-valuable-are-the-nfl-s-international-games-the-nhl-s-tv-windows
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610/sports-media-roundtable-can-victor-wembanyama-follow-lebron-james-and-steph-curry-as-the-nba-s-top-media-draw-how-valuable-are-the-nfl-s-international-games-the-nhl-s-tv-windows.md
Podcast: [Sports Media with Richard Deitsch](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610)
Published: 2026-05-23T08:50:00+00:00
Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/serve.castfire.com/audio/8407349/8407349_2026-05-23-030849.192.mp3?rssID=6247
Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/serve.castfire.com/audio/8407349/8407349_2026-05-23-030849.192.mp3?rssID=6247
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610/episodes/sports-media-roundtable-can-victor-wembanyama-follow-lebron-james-and-steph-curry-as-the-nba-s-top-media-draw-how-valuable-are-the-nfl-s-international-games-the-nhl-s-tv-windows
Duration seconds: 2245

## Resource

Episode 624 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch and Sports Business Journal media reporter Austin Karp. In this podcast, we discuss Victor Wembanyama as a longterm television draw; why Wembanyama looks like the league's most attractive media commodity heading forward; Spurs-Thunder Game 1 averaging a combined 9.16 million viewers on NBC across Nielsen and a streaming audience measured by Adobe Analytics, officially marking the largest audience on record for a Game 1 of the West Finals; Fox taking a studio show on the road for the World Cup; the NFL owners voting to drop the policy allowing them to protect their two most lucrative home games from being scheduled overseas; NASCAR no longer report Nielsen “Big Data + Panel” figures for its races, returning to the “panel-only” methodology; the NHL seeing its best conference semifinals on record, as ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TBS, TNT and truTV averaged 1.9 million viewers for all second-round games, and more.You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610/episodes/sports-media-roundtable-can-victor-wembanyama-follow-lebron-james-and-steph-curry-as-the-nba-s-top-media-draw-how-valuable-are-the-nfl-s-international-games-the-nhl-s-tv-windows/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610/sports-media-roundtable-can-victor-wembanyama-follow-lebron-james-and-steph-curry-as-the-nba-s-top-media-draw-how-valuable-are-the-nfl-s-international-games-the-nhl-s-tv-windows.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.