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     Raycom and Jefferson-Pilot Sports have announced a six-year
contract extension with ESPN for ACC basketball games through the
2000-2001 season.  ESPN will carry 20 ACC games annually, as well
as covering every game of the ACC tournament outside of the
Raycom-JP synidication region (Raycom)....The Sunshine Network,
which expects to lose the rights to Univ. of Miami football, is
likely to pursue the rights to the Univ. of Florida when UF's
contract with SportsChannel ends in May (MIAMI HERALD,
5/21)....DirectTV has reached an agreement with Rainbow
Programming Holdings to carry the company's RSNs -- including
SportsChannels New England, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Pacific and Florida, as well as NewSport (GOULD
MEDIA SERVICES)....Fox is touting a 54% ratings increase in Tampa
Bay for NHL coverage from last season (TAMPA TRIBUNE, 5/20).

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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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