Last Word On Sports Media Podcast

We are ready for the mayhem and the madness, as the 2025 NCAA Basketball Tournament gets underway in full on Thursday and Friday and a special guest joins host T.J. Rives to talk about it on this edition of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" Tim Brando of Fox Sports, but formerly CBS and ESPN is aboard and has tons fo stories about his involvement with calling the tourney on CBS and the coll...

On our newest edition of the show, co-hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill are back to go over the sports media top stories, personalities and more, as it's the "LWOS Media Podcast." The guys go over: NFL Free Agency Coverage on ESPN and NFL Network, but with a twist as,Twitter/X being down at times Monday and Tuesdat hampers NFL Insiders being able to instantly break stories. College Basketball Champ W...

A legendary studio NFL host says it's tio retire, NBC previews their NBA coverage with Mike Tirico and more is all part of the latest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!' Co-hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill are back aboard to go over the latest in sports media news, ratings and newsmakers. They talk the long rumored retirement of Fox Sports NFL studio analyst and former Super bowl winning coach Jimm...

We are heading to the end of February but there's no shortage of news and info in the world of sports media and our guys, T.J. Rives and Mike Gill as they return for the newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" The guys cover the upcoing end at the end of this MLB season of ESPN's relationship with baseball after 36 years. Why did it get to this point? What will MLB do for a Sunday Night Baseba...

Off the Eagles win in Super Bowl XIL in New Orleans, our co-host Mike Gill is back aboard on the show to go over his experiences with T.J. Rives. That and can the NBA All-Star Game be saved? Does anyone still care? We cover it all on the "LWOS Media Podcast." T.J. and Mike cover Mike's vacation to Thailand, of all places, DURING the NFL playoffs. Say What? Yes. Hear more. Also, Mike followed up by...

Off the Eagles crushing win over the Chiefs for Superbowl XIL last Sunday in New Orleans, host T.J. Rives returns with his insight and analysis on the coverage of the game and he brings on a national media colleague who was there in "the Big Easy" firsthand to talk about it. It's part of the "LWOS Media Podcast!" First, T.J. gives some thoughts on the massively rated Fox Sports broadcast of the Ea...

It's finally Super bowl week and we're ready to talk a lot about it and all  the interesting names who called many of the games, plus, other sports media news, etc. on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" Host T.J. Rives returns with his takes on Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs going for "3 peat" historyin the "Big Game" Sunday in NOLA against the Eagles. And, it will have Kevin Burkhardt calli...

It's the newest edition of our weekly look at all in the sports media landscape, as host T.J. Rives returns with news, TV numbers, takes and a guest on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" T.J. begins by going over the tremendous TV audience that Fox (early) and then, CBS gained for the NFC and the AFC title games Sunday in Philadelphia and Kansas City. Jalen Hurts and the Eagles are back in t...

We are back wiith another edition of the show looking at sports media in the U.S. and beyond with the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast." Host T.J. Rives is ready to go with takes on the horrible officiating in the AFC Divisional Playoff game between the Chiefs and the Texans last Saturday and most importantly, why Troy Aikman and Joe Buck of ESPN should be commended for calling out the awfful ca...

It's the newest edition of the show, as host T.J. Rives is back with sports media news, takes and a great friend/guest of his on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" T.J. welcomes "The Famous Jay" Betsill from DFWSportsOnline.com in Dalas-Ft. Worth to go over: The NFL Playoff weekend getting underway and the coverage on the different networks, as Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, Saquon Barkley an...

We are back with the full pod in the new year, as hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill return to wrap up the NFL regular season and look ahead to their postseason, the College Football Playoff resumes and more on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" The guys talk the Sunday that "fell flat" for the most part without a lot of drama in week 18 of the NFL. Yet, the Sunday night game on NBC with the Lio...

The first week of 2025 wraps up with host Mike Gill looking at some ratings and looking ahead to this weekend on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast Daily" for Friday. Mike talks the good ratings for the Fiesta Bowl win by Penn State over Boise State on ESPN in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals. How did the bode for New Year's Day? However, the NHL "Winter Classic" hits new low with it...

Happy New Year! We're back with the latest in sports media info and takes on our "daily" show that comes typically M-F in the mid-day. Host T.J. Rives returns with more on: The College Football Playoff quarterfinals have been playing out this week with Penn State beating Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl on Tuesday night. Then, after the horrible terrorist truck attack in New Orleans in the early mor...

It's our final show of 2024, as we recap the sports media stories of 2024 with hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill being joined by Ken Fang of Awful Announcing to go over it all on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast." The guys discuss: The passing of CBS Sports legend Greg Gumbel to Cancer at age 78 on Friday. The panel talks about his amazing career with all of his highest level assignments and yo...

It's the Friday edition of our "daily" as host T.J. Rives returns near the end of the year to go over the Christmas Day action in the NFL and NBA and how the audiences fared? Netflix had their first forray into live NFL games and had not technical problems this time with their Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans doubleheader. How well did both games do in audience? Massive. As in, 24 million...

On the latest, Christmas Eve edition of the Podcast, host T.J. Rives returns off the weekend with long-form info and takes on the expansion of the College Football Playoff to 12 teams and the historic first ever home games played last Friday and Saturday. Plus, he talks the NFL off the weekend, as well and all with a guest on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" T.J. is joined by Tyler Jones o...

It's a Monday edition of our "Daily" pod with sports media news, ratings and takes, as host T.J. Rives returns off the weekend. He was in Dallas for the Sunday Night Football game with his Buccaneers losing a heartbreaker to the Cowboys. T.J. covers off the weekend: Will the 4 larglely one-sided College Fotball Playoff Games hurt the TV numbers, as the playoff expanded with home games for the firs...

It's the Friday edition of the "daily" on the podcast feed as host Mike Gill returns to go over several sports media subjects and has a special guest, as well. First he talks the Friday night College Football Playoff history making game as Notre Dame becomes the first team to ever host a CFP game. It also the first non-NBC Notre Dame home broadcast since  Ron Franklin, Gary Danielson, and Neil Lom...

It's the Thursday edition of the "daily" show on this feed, as hsot T.J. Rives returns to go over some sports media news, ratings info and more. He covers: The preliminary ratings for the NBA Cup finale' from Las Vegas on ABC are in and the Milwaukee Bucks winner take all victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder scored some good audience, relative to network prime time TV. T.J. explains more, includ...

It's the newest edition of the "daily" show as host Mike Gill returns with some sports media news, ratings and more. Mike goes over: Charles Barkley appearing Wendesday on the "Dan Patrick Show" and revealing that him going with "Inside the NBA" to ESPN isn't a formality. Rather, he's hearing from other NBA broadcasters for next year- NBC and Amazon about their possibilites.  Also, the Army-Navy f...

It's the latest edition of our long-form pod, as host T.J. Rives and co-host Mike Gill return to go over the latest in sports media news. TV ratings and even, a social media spat involving the most prominent insider in the NFL and a now college hoop coach, who's also in the national media. We have it for you on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" The guys disucss: The NFL games of this past w...

It's the Monday edition of our "daily" dose of sports media news, takes and info, as host T.J. Rives returns to go over more with: His trip with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Los Angeles, as they blasted the Chargers 40-17 on Sunday. T.J. has more on whom he was around media-wise, etc. Also, there's some controversy over ESPN analyst and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss' abscence from their cov...

It's the Friday edition of the "Daily" as host Mike Gill returns and readies for this weekend of aciton will be covered and stories in sports media, as well. Mike talks the "NBA Cup" in season tournament winding down to it's semi-finals and eventual championship game. Is there really any interest on a large scale in it or has it already outlived it's novelty in two seasons? The 90th awarding of th...

It's the Thursday edition of the 'Daily" on the feed and host T.J. Rives is back with the latest on: Bill Belichick coming back to coach after a one year break to do some NFL media and it's a colllege job with the North Carolina Tarheels. Is this truly about him finishing his career as a college coach or is this a "stop gap" to get a job and then, still be in the NFL in 2026 or 2027 to break Don S...

It's our Wednesday edition of the "daily" as host Mike Gill returns with sports media upadtes, including ratings for prominent football and even, some announcer news, as well. Mike discusses: The Dallas Cowboys still score audience for ESPN/Disney and Monday Night Football despite being a bad team this season. Mike has more on what their audience did for the loss to the Bengals. Also, there's an u...