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Fox Unveils On-Air Talent For "Crowd Goes W!ld" Show On FS1

Fox Sports today unveiled the on-air talent lineup for the FS1 sports talk show "Crowd Goes W!ld," hosted by Regis Philbin. Contributors will include the Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay, comedian Michael Kosta, former NFLer Trevor Pryce and Sky Sports' Georgie ThompsonKatie Nolan will serve as social media correspondent. At a press event in N.Y., exec producer Michael Davies said the show plans to be a mix of entertainment and sports, featuring a daily guest star who will come from sports or entertainment. He said the show will stay away from “contrived” debate. Davies: “Debate rarely has just two sides. We want to represent those multiple points of view.”

Also today, Fox Sports released the online version of a 90-second spot promoting the Aug. 17 launch of its new FS1 national sports network. The ad, shot in multiple locations and featuring a slew of high-profile athletes, will begin appearing on TV tomorrow during Fox' broadcast of the MLB All-Star Game (THE DAILY).

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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