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          RATINGS: ABC received a 7.7 preliminary overnight
     rating for its Michigan-Penn State game Saturday.  On NBC,
     the Breeders Cup earned a 2.5 overnight, down 17% from last
     year's 3 rating (Howard Manly, BOSTON GLOBE, 11/11).  
          GENERAL: ABC Sports has been using "backup crews" on
     its "Monday Night Football" telecasts "to avoid losing
     coverage" as it did for the Tour Championship's third round. 
     (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/11)....ESPN and Time Warner Cable have
     reached a carriage agreement for ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS
     (ESPN)....Raycom Sports reach agreement with Turner Sports
     that allows TBS to televise the Carquest Bowl through the
     year 2000 (Raycom Sports)....CART Licensed Products has
     reached deals with TX-based Starting Blocks International
     for the "Who Works in CART" reference book.  CART also inked
     a deal with U.K.-based Hazleton Publishing for use of the
     CART logo on calendars, yearbooks and wall planners (CART).

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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