Menu
Closing Bell

Ratner Touts Effect Of MSG Renovation On Fan Experience

MSG President & CEO Hank Ratner appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this morning to discuss the renovation project at the arena. Ratner said the upgrade "means everything for the fan experience because it's actually our fans that told us how to transform this building." Ratner: "Three years ago we set out on a project to build a brand-new Madison Square Garden inside the iconic exterior of Madison Square Garden and we're proud to say on Friday we'll be unveiling it for our first public event, the Knicks play the Bobcats."

Ratner said of competing with TV to get fans out to the arena: "What we've seen is with the growth of media in all different forms and portability it's just given even more reason to come to the live experience" ("Squawk Box," CNBC, 10/23).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2013/10/23/Ratner.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2013/10/23/Ratner.aspx

CLOSE