Last Word On Sports Media Podcast

This week on Episode 27 of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin discuss the World Cup, Chris Fallica heading to FOX, and all the latest announcer happenings across the NFL, College Football, College Basketball, the NBA and the NHL. Throughout the show, a multitude of announcers are mentioned and an array of topics are discussed including: · World Cup quarterfinals up n...

It's the latest edition of the show, as host T.J. Rives and Dr. Jon Lewis of SportsMediaWatch.com are back to go over the latest news, ratings and more. First, Jon goes over the scary situation with Atlanta Hawks stalwart T.V. broadcaster Bob Rathbun having a medial episode live on camera during a Monday night broadcast. Jon has insight and also personal stories about Rathbun to share. Then, the g...

It’s time for another best of and we present 6 guests who appeared during season 6: Lisa Byington, Greg Gumbel, Pat Fitzgerald, Jesse Rogers, Paul Sullivan and John Wiedeman. All of them had great stories so we took a few in particular. Paul sullivan, who is a long time baseball beat reporter from the Chicago Tribune discussed his many run ins with players and management. Pat Fitzgerald, the head...

Alan Schwartz, one of the most important figures in the world of tennis, died last Friday at the age of 91. He previously had served as president of the United States Tennis Association and had built Midtown Tennis in Chicago in 1969, which at that time was the largest indoor tennis facility in the country. Alan also promoted women’s tennis, which grew by leaps and bounds when he opened that facil...

From this week's edition of the show. Host T.J. Rives and Dr. Jon Lewis of SportsMediaWatch.com are joined by a versatile, talented broadcasting guest. Tiki Barber of WFAN radio, CBS' NFL coverage and national radio on Compass Media Networks joins them. They discuss his post NFL broadcasting career that includes work on the Today Show on NBC, as well as Network NFL broadcasting on CBS and national...

This week on Episode 26 of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin discuss the World Cup while taking another deep dive into the latest announcer happenings across the NFL, College Football, College Basketball and the NBA. Throughout the show, 115 different announcers from past and present are mentioned, while an array of topics are discussed including: · NSMA sports broa...

Some massive TV ratings, including NFL and College Football still being king + an NFL great turned prominent TV/radio broadcaster is with the guys on the newest "Sports Media Watch Podcast." Host T.J. Rives returns with Jon Lewis of SportsMediaWatch.com to go over it all, including the tremendous Thanksgiving audiences for the NFL, including the record recent regular season numbers for the Giants...

It’s been some 20 months since Marc Silverman revealed to his audience on WMVP, ESPN 1000 in Chicago he had cancer. It was a form of lymphoma and like former Blackhawks TV analyst Eddie Olczyk had done 2 1/2 years earlier, he decided to go public. It allowed him to better cope with the disease saying he opened up more every time he spoke about it. “Silvy” as he’s best known was besieged with well...

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This week on Episode 25 of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin reflect on the origin story of the @announcerskeds twitter feed, while taking another deep dive into the latest announcer happenings across the NFL, College Football, College Basketball, NBA, NHL and the World Cup. Throughout the show, 85 announcers are mentioned, while an array of topics are discussed inc...

It's a special Thanksgiving Day edition of the show, as host T.J. Rives and Dr. Jon Lewis of SportsMediaWatch.com return to go over everything from the "World Sport" showcasing in Qatar, to college football reaching rivalry weekend and the NFL remaining supreme in the audience and getting set for a Turkey Day triple-header. As for the World Cup, how were the ratings for the Monday return for the U...

Sports talk show hosts can be a dime a dozen. But ESPN 1000’s Marc Silverman is worth his weight in gold. This long time voice in Chicago has clearly made an impact on the Sports radio seen. Paired with former Bears’ wide receiver Tom Waddle, the duo has been together over 15 years, each with his own inimitable style “Silvy” as he’s best known, wears his emotions on his sleeve and considering he’s...

Sports talk show hosts can be a dime a dozen. But ESPN 1000’s Marc Silverman is worth his weight in gold. This long time voice in Chicago has clearly made an impact on the Sports radio seen. Paired with former Bears’ wide receiver Tom Waddle, the duo has been together over 15 years, each with his own inimitable style “Silvy” as he’s best known, wears his emotions on his sleeve and considering he’s...

On a special edition of the show devoted to those who call the games on television and radio, host Mike Gill has a special guest play by play announcer, Connor Onion, who was part of a wild, internet rocking moment during his Tuesday night broadcast of the Toledo-Bowling Green game for ESPN. Mike discusses with Connor his impromptu call of Bowling Green's winning TD pass in the final seconds to st...

This week on Episode 24 of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin take another deep dive into the latest announcer happenings across the NFL, College Football, College Basketball, NBA, NHL and the World Cup. Throughout the show, a podcast-record 157 announcers are mentioned, while an array of topics are discussed including: · NFL in Munich, Germany recap · NFL Week 11 pr...

It's another edition of the show that goes over all facets of sports media and coverage from the always tremendous ratings of the NFL to the NBA and whether Turner Sports would ever be forced out of paying for/airing pro basketball? We're talking about it on the "Sports Media Watch.com" Podcast. Host T.J. Rives returns with Dr. Jon Lewis of SportsMediaWatch.com to give you their latest takes. T.J....

John Wiedeman didn’t begin his sports broadcasting career until age 31 but he had a vision: becoming the voice of the Chicago Blackhawks. Fast forward from the early 90’s to 2006 when suddenly, the Blackhawks fired long time popular play by play announcer Pat Foley. Wiedeman, then working the radio for the New York Islanders was stunned by the news. He decided to apply for the radio opening, was o...

John Wiedeman didn’t begin his sports broadcasting career until age 31 but he had a vision: becoming the voice of the Chicago Blackhawks. Fast forward from the early 90’s to 2006 when suddenly, the Blackhawks fired long time popular play by play announcer Pat Foley. Wiedeman, then working the radio for the New York Islanders was stunned by the news. He decided to apply for the radio opening, was o...

This week on Episode 23 of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin are joined by T.J. Rives of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Radio Network, Compass Media Networks & the Sports Media Watch Podcast on the eve of his crew’s trip to Germany for the Seahawks-Bucs NFL game. The show covers the World Series and NFL head-to-head tv ratings, plus another deep dive into the latest annou...

It's the latest edition of the show that covers everything in sports media and in this case that means the World Series, College Football, the NFL and even some Nascar and MLS Soccer too. Host T.J. Rives and Dr. Jon Lewis of SportsMediaWatch.com return with insight and analysis on it all. That includes, the ratings perspectives for the Houston Astros exciting six game win over the Philadelphia Phi...

Oklahoma begins its second season under head coach Porter Moser tonight against Sam Houston State University. Moser is eager to improve on his maiden campaign, one in which the Sooners went 7 and 11 in conference play and wasn’t invited to a tournament. Moser attributed that to signing 10 new players on Zoom, not meeting them until mid June and then having to play the second toughest schedule in c...

Oklahoma begins its second season under head coach Porter Moser tonight against Sam Houston State University. Moser is eager to improve on his maiden campaign, one in which the Sooners went 7 and 11 in conference play and wasn’t invited to a tournament. Moser attributed that to signing 10 new players on Zoom, not meeting them until mid June and then having to play the second toughest schedule in c...

Sean Grande, play-by-play voice of the Boston Celtics joins Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin on The Announcer Schedules Podcast. Grande checks in following his recent odyssey from Boston to Milan, Italy and back to Boston to call Bellator action and the NBA in rapid succession. In addition to detailing his recent trip to Italy, Grande touches on a variety of topics describing his life as an NBA an...

This week on Episode 22 of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin discuss the World Series and the NFL going head-to-head in both Philadelphia and Houston, plus a another deep dive into the latest announcer happenings across the NFL, College Football, MLB, NBA and NHL. Throughout the show, an array of topics are discussed including: Great calls across different platforms...

What will the World Series ratings look like? How big is this weekend going to be for SEC football on television with Tennessee at Georgia and Alabama at LSU in tremendous games? And, what's up with the NBA being silent on Kyrie Irving's latest controversy? It's all part of the latest "SportsMediaWatch.com Podcast" Host T.J. Rives is back with Dr. Jon Lewis (aka "Paulsen") from SportsMediaWatch.co...