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Suns See Upticks In Season-Ticket Renewals, Premium-Seat Sales On Back Of Strong Play

The Suns entering play tonight occupying the 8th spot in the Western Conference with a 46-31 record after winning just 25 games last year, and Suns President Jason Rowley said that the turnaround is "translating into improved season ticket renewals and sales, as well as a bump in suite and court-side ticket sales," according to Mike Sunnucks of the PHOENIX BUSINESS JOURNAL. Rowley said that the Suns currently have a 91% season-ticket renewal rate, up from 71% last season. He added that floor seats and smaller theater boxes at US Airways Center also are "posting better sales for both this season and next." Sunnucks reported the Suns' attendance "is up a little more than 400 fans per game" this season, but despite the improvement, they rank 24th in the NBA in that category. Meanwhile, Fox Sports Arizona Dir of Communications & Marketing Brett Hansen said that the team's TV ratings are up 84% compared with last season, "with an average of close to 39,700 households watching games this season." Phoenix-based Harkey Advertising CEO Matt Owens said that most of the Suns' marketing and "bottom-line rebound is due to the team’s success on the court and the local market’s bandwagon fan bases" (BIZJOURNALS.com, 4/8).

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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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