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MLB Signs 51 Media Partners To Cover World Baseball Classic Globally

MLB today said it has signed 51 media outlets to distribute coverage of the '17 World Baseball Classic to 182 countries and territories, amounting to a total global reach of more than 415 million households. The numbers are similar to the roughly 45 media partners covering 200 countries and territories for the '13 event. The media contracts were developed with the aid of international media rights agency MP & Silva. MLB Network, which has the exclusive English-language rights to the tournament in the U.S., will offer a free preview of the channel to video customers of Comcast, Cox and Frontier. The previews, in addition to MLB Net’s existing distribution, expand its reach to about 80 million U.S. homes.

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.

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