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Last Word On Sports Media Podcast

Welcome to the podcast network home for "Last Word on Sports Media." This feed includes episodes of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast" with host T.J. Rives and his guests.TJ will tackle the most interesting topics in U.S. Sports Media, including: what everyone is (or isn"t) watching in the ratings, the latest news and insight on everything from ESPN, to the over the air networks like: NBC, CBS, FOX and ABC. He"ll have critiquing of the shows, the personalities and production. And, T.J. will

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41:37

NFL Playoffs Results/Coverage And Cotton Bowl Win For...

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2025/01/15

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 and the Eagles, Josh Allen of the Bills and Jayden Daniels of Commanders all excelled. Jay also was in

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49:04

NFL Regular Season Concludes + College Football...

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2025/01/08

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 Lions bettering the Vikings actually did soar in audience. They will explain more and look ahead to the

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10:58

Penn State - Boise State Scores For ESPN But Winter...

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2025/01/04

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 its New Year's Eve date, as fewer than one million watch league-worst Blackhawks lose to Blues. What can be

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13:19

College Football Playoff New Year's Games And NFL...

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2025/01/02

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 morning New Year's Day hours in New Orleans, the Sugar Bowl with Notre Dame and Georgia was postponed to

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63:01

2024 Sports Media Stories Of The Year With Mike Gill...

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2024/12/31

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 you'll also hear from Gumbel in his own words on covering "Selection Sunday" for CBS' NCAA Tournament reveal

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9:33

Netflix SCORES With Christmas NFL And NBA Succeeds...

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2024/12/27

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+ for both. T.J. has more on what it means.The NBA also did well with all of their games airing on

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51:26

Christmas Eve College Football Playoff And NFL Info /...

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2024/12/24

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 of the "Jones Report Pod" and also NFL host for Chat Sports' KC Chiefs and Seattle Seahawk channels on

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10:01

College Footbal Playoff Wipeouts + NFL Saturday...

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2024/12/23

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 first time and all of them had leads by the home teams at one point or another of 21 points or more? Will the

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19:42

Notre Dame-Indiana Make College Football Playoff...

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2024/12/20

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 Lomax (sideline) called a November 1990 game.Next, Mike has more on the Bucks-Thunder "NBA Cup Final" down

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9:36

NBA Cup Decent Showing For ABC, College Football...

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2024/12/19

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, including a comparison to 2024.Find out more on a former NBA scoring star who's in talks with NBC sports and

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11:42

Charles Barkley Says He's Listening To NBC/Amazon,...

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2024/12/18

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 football game was a smash for CBS Saturday late afternoon. Just how big?And, the NFL is still booming with

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50:43

CFB Playoff Historic Broadcasts, NFL Heating Up +...

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2024/12/17

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 weekend and what they liked and did not. T.J. was in Los Angeles for the Buccaneers broadcast of their

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10:00

TJ In L.A. This Weekend For Bucs-Chargers, Randy Moss...

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2024/12/16

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 coverage due to a cancer diagnois. A prominent media member in Minneapolis broake the story that it's liver

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9:56

NBA Cup Narrows Down, Heisman Trophy On ESPN Saturday...

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2024/12/13

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 the Heisman Trophy will be Saturday night in NYC and Mike has more on the coverage and the overwhelming

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9:45

Bill Belichick Takes UNC Job + Dirk Nowitzki To...

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2024/12/12

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 Shula's NFL wins record? Time will tell.Also, it's a fascinating case of Belichick trying to "remake

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10:40

Cowboys Still Draw Fans On Monday Night, Al Michaels...

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2024/12/11

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 update on legendary play by play man Al Michaels and it looks like he's not going off into retirement just

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40:38

College Football Playoff Fallout, Criticism Of ESPN...

Last Word On Sports Media Podcast ·

2024/12/11

It's another busy edition of the podcast as hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill return to go over the latest in sports media news, ratings and more. It's the newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"The guys discuss:More fallout from ESPN delaying the announcement of the Coflege Football Playoff's final bracket reveal and how Brett McMurphy of the Action Network (and former ESPN employee) broke the story that SMU had been included and Alabama was left out. The guys discuss and they also play a previous

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9:42

Brett McMurphy Scoops ESPN CFP Reveal Show, Tom Brady...

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2024/12/09

We start off a new week with the latest in some brief sports media news and takes, as host T.J. Rives returns on the Monday edition of the "daily" of our podcasts.T.J. goes over the wild and exciting finishes of the college football championship games that included Georgia winning dramatically in OT (again) this time over Texas on ABC to get the SEC auto bid. That game will likely be the highest rated of the Saturday. This, despite the wild finishes for Oregon-Penn St in the Big Ten title game on

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11:51

ABC Touts College Football Audience, Randy Moss Takes...

Last Word On Sports Media Podcast ·

2024/12/06

It's the Friday edition of the "daily" and host Mike Gill returns with the latest in sports media news and updates.That includes:Randy Moss taking a leave for health reasons from ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown show.ABC is touting the most audience for it's college football coverage.... then, again, they've been showing tripleheaders every week, when CBS and NBC most weeks had only one game.Big 10 title game for the first time on CBS Saturday night with Oregon and Penn State battling.Yankees and New

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10:00

Thursday Night Footballl + Will Big Ten Title Game...

Last Word On Sports Media Podcast ·

2024/12/05

On the Thursday edition of the daily show, host T.J. Rives returns in advance of Thursday night football in Detroit for the Lions rematching the Packers and more.He also talks about whether CBS Sports can expect a good, if not great, audience for Saturday night's first ever Big Ten title game broadcast on their airwaves. The matchup is unbeaten Oregon against Penn State, but it doesn't have guaranteed audience grabber Ohio State in the game. This, after the Buckeyes choked away the Michigan game

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