Richard Deitsch
Father of twins; fan of Toronto, NYC and Buffalo; host of Sports Media Podcast; SBJ, CBC Sports. Alum: SI, The Athletic, Sportsnet; part of two countries 🇨🇦🇺🇸
- The Chris Paul era in Toronto is going to be incredible.
- NBC Sports says Mary Carillo will now join Terry Gannon as a host of the Opening Ceremony. Savannah Guthrie, who had been scheduled to host the Opening Ceremony with Gannon, will no longer travel to Milan
- NEW PODCAST: The Olympic hockey tournament will be one of the showcases of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. It's also going to have massive context surrounding it, including politics. The guest is Chris Cuthbert. He'll be calling the men's tournament for the CBC. TO LISTEN: swap.fm/l/4apy5A6Fma...
- An absolute disgrace — and it will produce an even larger disconnect between audience retention and the Washington Post brand. They gutted this outlet and the only people who will emerge wealthier are the ones who gutted it.
- FOX's telecast of UConn WBB-Tennessee WBB last Sunday averaged 1.213 million viewers, the most-watched women's college basketball game on any network season to-date.
- NEWS: For the Scott Hanson fans: NBC Olympics tells SBJ that Hanson will not only be a host of the Milan-Cortina Gold Zone coverage on Peacock and NBCSN: They have signed him for similar Gold Zone duty for the L.A. Summer Games in 2028. Story: www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
- NEW PODCAST SHORT: How political will the Olympic hockey tournament get? Guest is Chris Cuthbert, the CBC gamecaller for the men’s Olympic hockey tournament & lead play-by-play voice for Sportsnet's coverage of the NHL. Full podcast out Wed.: LISTEN: swap.fm/l/4apy5A6Fma...
- My one small piece of advice: Take a photo of yourself during the Games. You will one day appreciate years later who (and where) you were then.
- Wishing everyone covering the Milan-Cortina Games safe travels and a great experience. My dream as a kid was merely to attend one Olympics. I ended up covering seven of them for It is far and away my greatest professional highlight and the collective work I am most proudest.
- NEWS: I am officially closing my attempt to dunk a basketball for an approximately two-year period of time, with a scheduled grand reopening of me dunking that will rival & surpass anything dunk that has taken place before. This announcement has nothing to do with the lack of interest in me dunking.
