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Media Notes: Nordic Pay-TV Broadcaster Signs Deal To Broadcast NBA

MTG’s Nordic pay-TV broadcaster Viasat has signed a deal with the NBA to bring games to Russia, the CIS and Georgia. The Viasat Sport East channel will broadcast up to five regular season games each week along with major NBA events including the NBA All-Star Game, the Eastern and Western Conference Playoffs and the NBA Finals in June. The deal initially covers the '12-13 season (DIGITAL TV EUROPE, 12/17). ... Seven News has "continued to beef up its sports coverage" in Melbourne by hiring Herald Sun journalist Mark Stevens as chief football reporter. Stevens has been a "mainstay of the Herald Sun's football coverage for the past 14 years and has also appeared regularly on Triple M as a football analyst" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 12/17).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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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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