About this episode

The episode discusses the NBA playoffs audience increase, the National Sports Emmy Awards, and features an interview with Colin Lacy about college baseball broadcasting.

We are rapidly closing out the month of May and we're back with more sports media news/takes and a special guest on the newest edition of the "LWOS Media Podcast!" Host T.J Rives returns and goes over: The "bump" in TV audience for the start of the Oklahoma City Thunder/San Antonio Spurs NBA playoff series on NBC network TV. What does it really mean and how does it historicially compare? Plus, the NY Knicks are waiting for their first Finals appearance in almost 30 years. That will help the interest/audience, too. We go over it all. And, the National Sports Emmy Awards were handed out in NYC Tuesday night. T.J. goes over some of the winners and his opinions on them. Then, we shift and talk some tremendous insight on calling major college baseball, as the voice of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from the ACC joins the pod, Colin Lacy. Colin gives great insight on his role, how his career has progressed and what it was like to broadcast the ACC championship win over North Carolina last weekend. Now, the Jackets host the first round of the NCAA tournament in Atlanta and how does he prepare for all three teams, besides his, coming to play in the double elimination bracket? Colin and…

People in this episode

Host: T.J Rives

Guest: Colin Lacy

Topics covered

• NBA playoffs
• sports media
• National Sports Emmy Awards
• college baseball
• Georgia Tech
• broadcasting

Keywords

• NBA playoffs
• Oklahoma City Thunder
• San Antonio Spurs
• National Sports Emmy Awards
• Georgia Tech
• Colin Lacy
• college baseball
• ACC championship
• NY Knicks
• Atlanta Braves

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, NBC, NY Knicks, National Sports Emmy Awards, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, ACC

Places: Atlanta, North Carolina, NYC, Atlanta Braves

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