{"podcast":{"title":"Sports Media with Richard Deitsch","slug":"sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610","podcast_index_feed_id":1023610,"rss_url":"https://rss.amperwave.net/v2/feed/audacynetwork/sports-media-deitsch","website_url":"http://shows.cadence13.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch","image_url":"https://images.castfire.com/image/661/0/0/0/0-8382767.jpg","author":"Audacy","episode_count":733,"summary":"The Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch is a weekly show that features interviews with members of the sports media about their work, as well as roundtables with sports media reporters about television, digital, audio/radio, print, and other forms of media.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T14:18:01.712103+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610"},"episode":{"title":"Sports Media Roundtable: Duke and Prime Video partner up; will Russell Wilson be good on TV and where the Vrabel-Russini story goes from here.","slug":"sports-media-roundtable-duke-and-prime-video-partner-up-will-russell-wilson-be-good-on-tv-and-where-the-vrabel-russini-story-goes-from-here","published_at":"2026-05-02T07:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610/sports-media-roundtable-duke-and-prime-video-partner-up-will-russell-wilson-be-good-on-tv-and-where-the-vrabel-russini-story-goes-from-here","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sports-media-with-richard-deitsch-1023610","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/serve.castfire.com/audio/8356944/8356944_2026-05-04-190944.192.mp3?rssID=6247","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/serve.castfire.com/audio/8356944/8356944_2026-05-04-190944.192.mp3?rssID=6247","summary":"A roundtable discussion on the shifting landscape of sports broadcasting, focusing on Amazon Prime Video's strategic entry into college basketball. 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