Sports Media With Richard Deitsch

Episode 273 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with The Boston Globe sports media writer Chad Finn and Sports Business Journal assistant managing editor/digital Austin Karp on Tom Brady’s retirement and what it means for Fox Sports and Greg Olsen. They are followed by The Athletic investigative reporter Katie Strang. In this podcast, Finn and Karp discuss Brady’s retirement and what that means for Fox; how Olsen is impacted by the news; the expectations on Brady as a broadcaster; if Olsen has options away from Fox; NHL viewership on ESPN and TNT dropping 22 percent heading into the All-Star break; falling Winter Classic viewership numbers; Boston’s Channel 4 testing a 6 p.m. newscast without a sports report; covering Bobby Hull and how to write an obit of a miserable human being; SBJ’s Michael Smith’s story that the NCAA has picked Karen Brodkin and Hillary Mandel to prepare the NCAA for its next round of media rights negotiations and more. Strang discusses her reporting on Zvi Levran, who is