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     Ratings for the NFL divisional playoff games fell 7% in
overnight results from a 24.4 average to a 22.6.  Fox's two games
were down 4% to 22.2, and NBC's games decreased 10% to a 23.2.
The highest rated game of the weekend was Sunday's Dolphins-
Chargers with a 26.8 (Rudy Martzke, USA TODAY, 1/10)....Comsat
Int'l Ventures -- a unit of Comsat Corp., owner of the NBA's
Nuggets -- announced a buyout of its partners in a Brazilian
communications company, Comsat VIC S.A.  The company, which
operates satellite earth stations and provides telecommunications
to Brazil, will now be named Comsat Brasil (Baltimore SUN,
1/10)....Time Warner, U.S. West and two Japanese companies
announced they would invest around $400M to enter the Japanese
cable TV market (N.Y. TIMES, 1/10)....Rusty Wallace and Ernie
Irvan join TNN this fall.  Irvan will be a color commentator for
13 Winston Cup Events; Wallace will host a new motorsports series
that premiers in April (NASCAR NEWS, 1/4-11)....ABC is already
pitching its bowl package for next season, packaging the Sugar,
Rose and Citrus Bowls (COWLES BUSINESS MEDIA).

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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