Last Word On Sports Media Podcast

On the latest edition of our M-F "Daily" Podcast on the feed, host T.J. Rives returns with the latest in sports media news and takes. He covers on this show: The L.A. Dodgers have won the World Series with a remarkable comeback (or Yankee meltdown in a single inning) in Game 5. What will the final audience numbers be and how much did that New York collapse cost Fox Sports for a potential Friday ni...

It's the Wednesday edition of our M-F "daily" info and takes on the LWOS Media Pod feed. Host Mike Gill returns talking: Ratings for the World Series on Fox against Monday Night Football on ESPN, as both match-ups had New York based teams involved in the games What about the "Hail Mary' win for the Commanders scoring for CBS Sports Sunday afternoon/evening?  Lead college hoops analyst Jay Bilas wi...

A busy new edition of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast" as host T.J. Rives returns with co-host Mike Gill to go over topics in the sports media news, ratings and announcer world. They discuss the topics: The Dodgers have taken a commanding 3-0 lead over the Yankees and Fox Sports has to be disappointed by that, as the World Series could be over on Tuesday night. What abou the ratings sure? A...

We're back off the weekend with the newest edition of the 'Daily" as host T.J. Rives is back with more off the World Series, College Football and the NFL. What about the Joe Davis call on Fox Sports of the Freddie Freeman grand slam homer for the win  that mirrored the famous Kirk Gibson one, also in game one in L.A., from 1988? He also has more on the expected larger audience for this World Serie...

It's a special conversation on the Friday edition of the "daily" on our podcast feed as host Mike Gill welcomes in Kevin Egan from MLS 360 on APPLE TV. Egan, who's from Ireland, has a huge background in "Football" or Soccer and is also known as having been a broadcaster with WWE wrestling, as well. Get all the insight on the regular season just concluding in MLS and now, their playoffs for the "ML...

It's the Thursday edition of the "daily" with some quick sports media info, ratings and takes from host T.J. Rives. He goes over: The debut of the "NBA on ESPN" for another year and yet another, lead analyst joining Mike Breen this season. Richard Jefferson made his debut with Breen and Doris Burke Wednesday night. T.J. has more on this. Penn State is preparing to play Wisconsin in a Big Ten showd...

On the latest edition of the "daily" Mike Gill returns with some interesting sports media news items and ratings: Disney/ESPN/ABC has tabbed Richard Jefferson to become their fourth different lead anayst joining Mike Breen for the NBA in just over 18 months. Mike has thoughts on this move. Also, the Monday night football ratings are in for the Baltimore Ravens and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are in a...

On the latest edition of our full show/pod host T.J. Rives is back with co-host, Mike Gill, to go over everything in sports media, TV ratings and more on the "LWOS Media Podcast!" The guys go over topics: The Monday night football doubleheader again this past week but the second game with Cards/Chargers was only on ESPN+. Mike is particularly perturbed! There's ratings info from this weekend on th...

On the Monday edition of the "daily" host T.J. Rives returns with some sports media news, and takes off the weekend. They include: How fortunate is MLB that they will get a New York Yankees vs. L.A. Dodgers World Series for the first time in 43 years? What about the College Football audience for the thrilling games Saturday in Knoxville, Austin and Champaign, IL? And, the NFL continues fo rule on...

On our Friday edition of the "daily" Mike Gill is back with his insight, some ratings news and some announcers to look forward to listening to on TV and radio  The MLB baseball League Championship Series are unfolding with the Dodgers taking a commanding 3-1 lead over the Mets and headed into game 5 Friday. Meanwhile, the Guardians won dramatically over the Yankees with an extra inning homerun to...

On the newest edition of the "daily" on the LWOS Media podcast feed T.J. Rives returns with some takes and some scheduling updates. He discusses the fallout from Jerry Jones having a contentious reaction to legitmate questions by the radio hosts on his flagship radio station that runs the Dallas Cowboys games. Jones was threatening to replace the questioners on Tuesday. Also, Tom Brady adds "minor...

It's the Wednesday edition of the "daily" on the LWOS Media podcast feed and Mike Gill is back to give you all the latest news and info with his takes. Mike talks the MLB Postseason ratings including going against Monday night football between the Bills and the Jets. Also, how did the NFL weekend numbers come out with the Ravens-Commanders matchup on CBS and the awful Sunday Night game of Bengals...

It's a brand new edition of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast," as host T.J. Rives is back for this edition with a special guest. T.J. is usually joined by Mike Gill of ESPN 97.3 radio in Atlantic City, NJ, but Mike had other chaotic Philly sports press conference and event duties for his station. He'll be back Wednesday with takes and ratings, etc. on our "daily" M-F series. Instead, T.J. gi...

Brand new edition of our "Daily" as T.J. Rives is aboard on this Monday. He has the latest on: The craziness post-Hurricane Milton in Florida coupled with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene two weeks earlier. The NFL weekend, inclduing why didn't Fox want to leave the awful, one sided Cowboys game in the fourth quarter on Sunday? What game did NBC want for SNF instead of the awful Giants/Bengals ma...

It's the newest edition of our "daily" as Mike Gill returns on the pod feed to talk the drama building in the MLB Divisional Rounds of the Playoffs. The Yankees and the Mets are in their leagues' championship series. Whom will join them Friday night and Saturday? Mike also gets ready for the NFL and College Football wekeends of matchups with the broadcasters, etc. And, the WNBA is down to its fina...

On the newest edition of the "daily" host T.J. Rives returns in the aftermath of dealing overnight with Hurricane Milton in his area of Florida. He recounts what went on late night Wednesday and updates the situation in Tampa Bay, etc. He also discusses the MLB post season matchups and networks, as the Mets have eliminated the Phillies to meet either the Dodgers or Padres. They are playing a winne...

On the newest edition of our M-F "Dailyl" edition of the show host Mike Gill is back with news and his takes on the MLB Postseason, the NFL numbers and more. Mike covers the ratings in for the Fox/FS1 and Turner Sports ratings for the MLB postseason games. How did they do against a weekend of College Football and the NFL? Also, Mike has some critiquing of some of the best p x p calls of the MLB pl...

It's the newest edition of the podcast, as host T.J. Rives and co-host Mike Gill return with their takes on the weekend and more in sports and the coverage of it in sports media on the "Last Word on Sports Media" podcast! They discuss: The College Football craziness and announcers calling the wild games and upsets and did the MLB playoffs make an impact Saturday or not? There's also discussion of...

Off an amazing weekend of drama and upsets in football and also, we have big news involving ESPN's decision on a new NBA insider, we're back with the "LWOS Media Daily!" Host T.J. Rives has more on: The Vanderbilt Saturday upset of #1 Alabama and how it was called by the SEC Network. Plus, other great college football drama too.  Sunday saw 9 of the 12 games come down to the very end/OT in as dram...

It's the newest edition of the "daily" Monday-Friday on the LWOS Media feed and Mike Gill is back. He has thoughts on the football weekend staring up with the Amazon Prime/Thursday night wild win by the Falcons over the Buccaneers. And then, lots on the baseball, including the Mets dramatic game 3 wildcard win over the Brewers to make the NLDS with the Phillies. Mike has p x p calls and the schedu...

It's an intriguing Thursday night for sports fans as the "winner take all" MLB Wildcard game goes against Thursday Night Football in the NFL. And, host T.J. Rives is back to discuss it on the "Daily." How about Disney/ESPN deciding to start the MLB game three of NY Mets at Milwaukee Brewers at 7 p.m. Eastern to stay early and away from the NFL start time of 8:15p Eastern for Buccaneers at Falcons...

It's the newest edition of our Monday through Friday "daily" edition with some sports media news and insight from Mike Gill. On this episode he has the lates on: The Sunday and Monday night NFL TV ratings, including the ESPN double header in both Miami and Detroit.  The MLB "Wildcard Week" is underway with a quadruple-header in Houston, Milwaukee, Baltimore and San Diego on Tuesday and there will...

On the latest edition of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast," hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill return to give extended thoughts and analysis on the latest in sports media, ratings and more. That includies: Another big NFL weekend that included Tom Brady returning to Tampa to go broadcast the Buccaneers-Philly game nationally for Fox Sports. Is he improving? And, which host thinks Tony Romo is be...

Off the final weekend of September with plenty of NFL, College Football, the MLB regular season concluding, etc., we're back in a new week with the latest of our "Daily" podcasts. Host T.J. Rives returns with insight and takes on: The "Fail Mary Part II" last second play in the Miami-Virginia Tech playoff game that saw the Hokies apparently catch the winning TD, have it called a TD with no time le...

On the newest edition of our Monday-Friday "daily" on this podcast feed, Mike Gill returns with news, ratings and some quick takes on several sports media/broadcasting coverage: Caitlin Clark’s season finale averaged 2.5 MILLION viewers—cable’s most-viewed WNBA game ever. Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit blasting the refs on Thursday night football gets high marks from him Where will former ESPN.co...