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     CNN reported that Sears officially put its 50% stake in
Prodigy up for sale.  Sears Chair & CEO Arthur Martinez:  "We are
returning to our roots as a retail business"    ("Moneyline,"
2/21).  One reason for the sale is the Web, which is taking
customers away from the online services (USA TODAY, 2/22)....Anne
Sweeney has resigned as Chair & CEO of Fox's fX Network to become
President of The Disney Channel.  Sweeney's authority over fX
"changed" since word of a News Corp. deal with Liberty Sports to
create a sports venture to rival ESPN (L.A. TIMES, 2/22)....A
U.S. District Court in Houston has assessed fines against some
Houston area bars for showing blacked-out Oilers games.  Under
the decision, the NFL will be paid $50,000 from three entities
(NFL)....ESPN will enter Thailand this month through a deal with
United Television in Bangkok (AD AGE ONLINE, 2/22).

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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