Sports Media Roundtable: The incredible WBC viewership numbers and Barry Bonds joins Netflix

Sports Media Roundtable: The incredible WBC viewership numbers and Barry Bonds joins Netflix

49:45 Mar 21, 2026
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Episode 605 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jon Lewis, editor and founder of Sports Media Watch; Armand Broady, the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast and a contributor to SMW, and Derek Futterman, a multimedia writer and producer for Sports Media Watch. In this podcast, we discuss the remarkable Venezuela-United States World Baseball Classic viewership numbers -- the championship game averaged 10.78 million viewers across FOX and Fox Deportes; what the viewership numbers mean; how much of an Olympic carryover was this number; what outlet will get future tournaments; Barry Bonds officially joined Netflix; our initial thoughts on NCAA Tournament coverage, 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
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