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Media Notes: Modern Times Group Extends Champions League Media Rights

Modern Times Group announced it has prolonged its live media rights to Champions League football in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, from the '15-16 season through the '17-18 season. MTG is the first broadcaster in Europe to secure the Champions League media rights for this period (MTG). ... SingTel fiber broadband customers "will be able to watch the first Barclays Premier League match that kicks off on every Sunday for free on the telco's exPress Portal" (ASIA ONE, 10/31). ... The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the Japan Golf Association have launched a new Japanese Rules of Golf iPad and iPhone app featuring two of the country's leading golfers, Ryo Ishikawa and Hideki Matsuyama. The app is designed to give a guide to the rules of golf in the Japanese language and uses video footage, illustrations and images to explain the many different rules issues which can arise in a round of golf (R&A). ... EPL Sunderland and StreamAMG have launched a new online multimedia service, SAFSee. This is the EPL club's fourth video to be powered by the StreamAMG platform. The new SAFSee "opens up a whole host of content to Sunderland fans completely free of charge" (FC BUSINESS, 10/30).

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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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