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NBC averaged a 1.7 overnight Nielsen rating for its two NHL Stanley Cup conference semifinal telecasts this past weekend, marking its best figure for the first weekend of the second round in eight years. The net averaged a 1.9 overnight for Devils-Flyers Game One yesterday from 3:00-6:00pm ET, up 13% from the comparable Red Wings-Sharks Game Two last year. The net also averaged a 1.5 overnight for the first game of the Capitals-Rangers series, flat compared to the Bruins-Flyers opener last year (Austin Karp, THE DAILY).

VOICES CARRY: In N.Y., Bob Raissman reported Yankees radio announcers John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman “will be back in the booth for the 2013 season no matter who owns the Yankees’ radio rights.” Sources said that “despite all the criticism" of the pair, people within the organization “consider Sterling and Waldman part of the Yankee family.” A source indicated that as part of "any radio rights deal they sign, the Yankees will make sure they have control of who the broadcasters are.” CBS is paying $13M per year under the current contract. Sources said the team has "a very good relationship" with current rights holder WCBS-AM, and "a sense of loyalty." Sources said the Yankees “will more than likely exercise the option to stay with the station through 2013” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/29). 

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Dodgers Manager of Spanish Radio Broadcast Sales Jorge Jarrin has joined the team's Fox Deportes TV broadcast team. Jarrin, the son of Dodgers HOF announcer Jamie Jarrin, will join analyst Manny Mota as the play-by-play announcer for 50 Dodger games this season (THE DAILY).

GRID LOCK: In N.Y., Brian Stelter profiles Dan Abrams’ Abrams Media Network of websites that includes Mediate and SportsGrid and writes it has been "slow going for one of his seven sites,” SportsGrid. Abrams said that the “others had attracted brand advertisers, like Ralph Lauren on Styleite and Intel on Geekosystem, his technology site.” Web measurement firm Quantcast shows that Abrams’s network receives “about eight million monthly visitors,” and at least a third of “those visitors are actually located on other Web sites where Mediaite and SportsGrid’s video players are posted with advertisements attached -- demonstrating how valuable aggregation can be to the business models of Web networks” (N.Y. TIMES, 4/30).

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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