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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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52:40

CFB Playoff Semis, NFL Playoffs Get Started And More...

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2026/01/07

We're back in the brand new year of 2026, as the College Football Playoff narrows down to it's Final Four and the NFL playoffs get going this weekend. We discuss the coverage, the ratings and more with a guest on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives returns with Tyler Jones of LWOS .com/Media, "The Jones Report Podcast" and Roundtable Sports to go over it all.First, T.J. has thoughts on the CFP New Year's Eve and New Year's Day games and ratings. Also, the end of the NFL regular season and the

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51:08

2025 Sports Media Stories Of Year with Ken Fang And...

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2025/12/31

We are back once more in the calendar year to go over the top sports media stories for 2025 with host T.J Rives and guests, Ken Fang of Awful Announcing and Jay Betsill of DFW Sports Online.The guys go over topics like:Turner Sports loses but NBC regains and Amazon gets the NBA starting late this year. Also, what abou the iconic "Inside the NBA" now on ESPN?Netflix wins a carriage showdown with ESPN over prices and a blackout by the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" that backfired.MLB does deals with

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64:37

Christmas Breakdown + CFP HUGE Audience For ABC, NBA...

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2025/12/24

Ho. Ho. Ho! It's a pre-Christmas show talking some sports media, but first, and foremost, Christmas itself- shopping, food and even, movies being disucussed. That and a bunch of football and NBA too on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives is joined by co-host Steve Carney of the LWOS/Media coverage.They discuss:Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie or not?Have they done their shopping with just a day to go before THE day?College football ratings soar Friday night for Bama comeback and Miami beating

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39:58

CFB Playoff Begins, Joel Klatt Hot Take on NCAA CBB...

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2025/12/17

A massive week of football coming up just days before Christmas and we're ready to go over it all and even, squeeze in some other sports like Boxing, etc.! on the newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives is back talking these subjects:Army-Navy football game never fails to deliverWILD Sunday of comebacks and drama in the NFLCollege Football Playoff gets underway Friday night/Saturday all day with Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Ole Miss and Oregon hosting.Fox Sports CFB Analyst Joell

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35:45

College Football Playoff Chaos, Troy Aikman Thought...

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2025/12/10

A MASSIVE weekend for College Football lead to the unveiling of the 12 team College Football Playoff and we're ready to recap it all and the coverage, too on our newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives returns with his insight and also welcomes Tyler Jones of the "Jones Report" podcast and Roundtable Sports' coverage of the Oklahoma Sooners and NASCAR, etc.Tyler was on hand in L.A. for the wild Eagles-Chargers OT Monday Night Football game and relates some stories from that.The

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92:41

Lane Kiffin Saga With Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy...

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2025/12/03

Lots to unpack on our newest show from the Lane Kiffin "telethon-like" coverage of whether he would stay or go from Ole Miss, huge football games on Thanksgiving in the NFL and for Ohio St. and Michigan for Fox Sports. Plus, we have a WILD, four day travel weekend for a broadcast host/producer to go over, too!It's all with T.J. Rives and guests on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"First, T.J. talks the Thanksgiving games and numbers and the speculation that continues about the size of the TV audiences for

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48:51

Steve Carney Talks Thanksgiving, New MLB Broadcast...

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2025/11/26

It's Thanksgiving week and we're ready to go over the latest in sports media news, ratings and more with host T.J. Rives and guest Steve Carney of our LWOS.com/media coverage on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"The boys spend appropriate time talking Thanksgiving and working sports media jobs on Turkey Day and Steve has a tremendous story about the Thanksgiving spread while on the job for Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio in 2006.They then discuss the new broadcast media deals for MLB, including ESPN getting back

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63:48

ESPN Caves To YoutubeTV, Wild College Football And...

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2025/11/19

It's the latest edition of our show/podcast talking sports media stories, newsmakers, ratings and more with a resolution in the Disney/Youtube TV dispute, an update on Paul Finebaum leaving college football media for a U.S. Senate run and more on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives welcomes Tyler Jones of LWOS.com/Media and "The Jones Report" podcast to the show to go over it all.They talk the Disney backpeddle to do a deal with Google/Youtube late last Friday night before the college football

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24:58

Josh Appel Sports USA NFL P x P Conversation | LWOS...

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2025/11/14

On this edition of the "LWOS Media Podcast" we go in-depth with an NFL play by play broadcaster on national radio every week. This, as Josh Appel of Sports USA Radio's coverage of pro football is our guest.Josh and host T.J. Rives go back almost 15 years to Josh's time as a student and rising broadcaster at the Univ. of South Florida in Tampa. Now, he works in the booth for a significant game almost every week in "the league." For example, he and analyst Brandon Noble called the Detroit Lions win

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35:15

Joe Flint of Wall Street Journal on Youtube TV/Disney...

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2025/11/13

It's a one on one conversation with one of the top media writer/reporters nationally in country on the hot topic of the Youtube TV vs. Disney carriage dispute. And you'll hear it here as part of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast."Host T.J. Rives welcomes Joe Flint, senior media writer for the Wall Street Journal, to go over the ongoing dispute with Youtube TV and whether they or Disney will eventually relent and make a deal? Joe has great insight on how a single former ESPN executive may be the

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71:20

Youtube TV Dispute With Disney Continues With Joe...

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2025/11/12

It's still a BIG standoff between Youtube TV and Disney over their programming and we're ready to talk about it, plus we get some insight on broadcasting the NFL on national radio week to week, too on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives returns with guests to go over it all. First, he talks the weekend in college and NFL football and some of the TV numbers from it.Then, he welcomes Joe Flint, senior media writer for the Wall Street Journal, to go over the ongoing dispute with

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54:33

Dodgers Epic Game 7 World Series Win, ESPN/Youtube TV...

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2025/11/05

It's been another busy week in sports media from the thrilling conclusion of the World Series, to the ongoing dispute for Disney/ESPN and Youtube TV and the passing of an NFL analyst icon in the 80s and 90s. We're ready to talk it all on the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives returns with Steve Carney of Last Word on Sports/Media web coverage to go over the latest and give their takes.What about the amazing drama of Game 7 of the World Series with the Dodgers defeating the Blue Jays

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29:46

Remembering Legendary NBC Sports Analyst/Commentator...

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2025/11/04

Former NBC Sports legendary football analyst and broadcaster of the Olympics and Golf, Bob Trumpy, passed away over the weekend and we pay tribute to him on the" Last Word on Sports Media Podcast."Host T.J. Rives is joined by special guests Ken Fang of Awful Announcing and Phil De Montmollin, sports broadcast historian and more, to recall the memories of Trumpy's decorated career.From transitioning from playing in the NFL for the Bengals to local sports radio in it's early days in Cincinnati in the

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49:56

World Series Scores For Fox, ESPN Gambling Issues And...

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2025/10/29

It's a new week and we have lots more to go over in the sports media world from the blockbuster charges against current NBA coach and player and rigged gambling allegations, to the Blue Jays and Dodgers slugging it out and the World Series, and what's up with an SEC school not welcoming another school's Spanish language play by play broadcast?It's all part of the "LWOS Media Podcast" with host T.J. Rives and co-hosted this week by Tyler Jones of LWOS Media, Roundtable Sports and his "Jones Report"

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32:01

Blue Jays-Dodgers World Series NBA on NBC Returns +...

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2025/10/22

We're back with latest edition of the show that takes a good look at the latest in sports media news, TV ratings, opinions and more on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives is back with takes off the weekend of football, both college and the NFL. And, this includes a massive 18 point fourth quarter comeback by the Denver Broncos over the N.Y. Giants on CBS called by the great Kevin Harlan with Trent Green. Also, a great win by Alabama over Tennessee in an SEC primetime showdown and we play a

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64:19

CBS Scores With Bucs Drama + Mariners Walk Off...

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2025/10/15

Another wild weekend in the ever popular NFL, college football travel craziness for ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit last weekend and some MLB Postseason drama in Seattle gets huge baseball audience for Fox Sports, too. And, we're ready to go over it all on the "LWOS Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives is back with colleague from the Tampa Bay/National Baseball media, Steve Carney, to go over it all.They start with the Bucs hot 5-1 start and their national CBS TV win over the 49ers. It's "Baker Mayfield-mania" for

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61:33

Mark Sanchez Bizarre Fight/Stabbing/Arrest + Paul...

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2025/10/08

It's been a crazy weekend in sports media and we're ready to go over the evolving, bizarre story of Fox Sports NFL broadcaster Mark Sanchez getting into a fight late Friday night, getting stabbed and then being charged by the Indianpolis police while there to work the Colts/Raiders NFL game. Plus, what's going on with ESPN and their SEC personality/host Paul Finebaum and whether he was being repremanded or not? It's all part of the "LWOS Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives is joined this week by Tyler

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45:05

Cowboys-Packers (NBC) Bama-UGA (ABC) Both Soar in...

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2025/10/01

A jammed packed, wild weekend of football, Ryder Cup, MLB and more and ready to go over it from the sports media perspective on the "Last Word On Sports Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives and co-host Mike Gill are back with their insight and their takes.They discuss:Tom Brady and the Fox Sports #1 crew covered the Eagles-Bucs that most of the country saw and the guys go over that.Plus, a massive Sunday night audience for NBC for the Cowboys-Packers 40-40 OT tie! And, the audience was massive.However,

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32:07

NFL Today 50th Anniversary, Greg Olsen Unhappy With...

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2025/09/24

We're are back going over the top sports media stories, newsmakers, etc. from over the weekend on the newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"Host T.J. Rives and Co-Host Mike Gill of the "The Sports Bash" weekday afternoon show in Atlantic City, NJ return with their takes on:it was the celebration of the 50th anniversary on CBS' "NFL Today" show that debuted in 1975. The network did great tributes to it with Brent Musberger in the studio and the guys go over it.Then, the NFL had some CRAZY

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37:23

Tom Brady Controversy In Raiders Coaching Booth,...

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2025/09/17

It's a jam packed new edition of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast," as host T.J. Rives and co-host Mike Gill are back with LOTS of takes on the personalities, coverage, ratings, etc. in sports media.They talk first about the massive "win" for Fox Sports' coverage of the Chiefs-Eagles on Sunday with over 31 million watching on average. Seven time Superbowl winner Tom Brady was on the call and we give his analysis some critiquing. But bigger, he was in the Las Vegas Raiders coach's booth the

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