March Madness RULES for CBS/Turner + MLB TV chaos to ensue? And More With Tyler Jones! 3 24 26

About this episode

T.J. Rives and Tyler Jones discuss the 2026 NCAA Men's Tourney, MLB season start, and various sports media topics.

We're back in the throws of March with the 2026 NCAA Men's Tourney in full swing and CBS/Turner are benefitting from it. We're ready to discuss that, the start of the MLB season and more on the newest "LWOS Media Podcast!" Host T.J. Rives welcomes back Tyler Jones of LWOS.com/Media and his "The Jones Report" Podcast and Roundtable Sports. They begin with first weekend of March Madness games for CBS/Turner. The ratings boomed and T.J. and Tyler go over the top announcers to cover the drama, but also what was CBS doing with it's studio coverage choices too? And, they look ahead to this weekend, whre Tyler will be going to the Sweet 16/Elite 8 games in Houston. Next, they talk lots of MLB and the baseball season getting underway with Yankees and the Giants playing on Netflix on Wednesday night 3/25. Netflix is obvioulsy going for subscribers with unique events and will do some more baseball later in the Summer. They also talk the debut of "Sunday Night Baseball" coming on NBC Sports with Jason Benetti as the the lead voice and an interesting strategy on analysts. And, T.J. continues to lament what he sees is upcoming chaos for MLB.TV and local/regional TV deals that affecting many…

People in this episode

Host: T.J. Rives

Guest: Tyler Jones

Topics covered

• March Madness
• MLB season
• CBS/Turner coverage
• Netflix baseball
• NFL Network
• NASCAR

Keywords

• March Madness
• CBS
• Turner
• MLB
• Netflix
• Sunday Night Baseball
• NFL Network
• NASCAR

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS, Turner, MLB, Netflix, NBC Sports, NFL Network, ESPN

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