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NBA, Sky Sports Ink Deal For Sunday Doubleheader Broadcasts

The NBA and Sky Sports have signed a TV deal to broadcast Sunday doubleheaders in the U.K. during the remaining portion of the league's '12-13 regular season. In addition, Sky Sports will broadcast select playoff games, the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals. The deal, which runs through the '12-13 season, comes after the league in December signed a deal with ESPN to carry three games per week in the U.K. and Ireland. Sky Sports' NBA coverage will begin on Jan. 17 when the Pistons play the Knicks in London. The live broadcast also will be shown in 3D.

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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