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Media Notes: Ernst & Young Claims Unnamed Client Ready To Invest €1B For Serie A Rights

Ernst & Young claimed an unknown client is ready to invest €1B ($1.2B) a season for Serie A's TV rights. EY sent a letter to Serie A to "offer" a partnership that "could solve the contingent problems of the Italian league" (CALCIO FINANZA, 12/11).

Russia’s state-run Channel One TV channel announced it will broadcast the 2018 Winter Games despite the IOC's decision last week to bar Russia’s team from competing (TASS, 12/12).

Tottenham unveiled a new web experience that allows fans to explore its White Hart Lane in 360 degrees. Produced by Seven League and created with Animal Vegetable Mineral, The Lane 360 lets fans navigate the closed and dismantled ground (Tottenham). 

Formula 1 appears likely to remain on free-to-air TV in Germany. Bild reported talks between RTL and Liberty Media are "now essentially done." It is claimed that the '18 season opener will "definitely be shown free-to-air" in Germany (GMM, 12/11).

Online betting site BetStars launched BetStars News in the U.K. The sports betting news site will engage sports fans and punters with news, features, graphics and videos, as well as insight from expert analysts. The site will feature daily articles across betting markets, including sports, entertainment and politics (BetStars). 

Google expanded its sports league results feature to esports, starting with the ESL Pro League Season 6 Finals in Odense, Denmark. Just like traditional sports tournaments, typing the name of an esports competition "will deliver a score table as the first result" (THE ESPORTS OBSERVER, 12/11).

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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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