World Baseball Classic Delivers + NCAA Tourney Underway And NBC NFL Studio Shaekup With Steve Carney 3 17 26

About this episode

The episode discusses the World Baseball Classic, NCAA tournament, and changes in NBC's NFL coverage.

We're back with another edition of the show that delves into all of sports media stories, personalities, audience and breaking news with the "LWOS Media Podcast!" Host T.J. Rives is joined by Steve Carney of LWOS.com/Media to go over the latest. They talk the amazing drama of the World Baseball Classic, eventually won on Tuesday night by Venezuela over the USA. How happy should Fox be with all the coverage and audience? And, will it help boost the start to the MLB regular season next week? Next, it's "March Madness" as the 2026 NCAA tournament gets underway this week. The "Selection Sunday" show scored big for CBS, yet again and get ready for the upsets, too. Steve and T.J. have thoughts on the drama unfolding and how many of the favoritees like Duke, Michigan, Arizona and defending champion Florida will make it to the Final Four in Indianapolis? They guys also talk NFL and how big is the shakeup coming for NBC Sports Sunday night football coverage? This, as Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy confirmed late last week that he won't be back after 17 years with their pregame show. Also, what about ESPN taking over NFL media on April 1st and what does it mean for their on air talent? And…

People in this episode

Host: T.J. Rives

Guest: Steve Carney

Topics covered

• World Baseball Classic
• NCAA Tournament
• NFL Coverage
• Sports Media
• March Madness
• Audience Engagement

Keywords

• World Baseball Classic
• NCAA Tournament
• March Madness
• NFL Coverage
• Tony Dungy
• CBS
• ESPN

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LWOS.com, CBS, ESPN

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