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Gene Simmons Promises AFL L.A. Kiss Will Provide Family Entertainment At Low Costs

Kiss bassist Gene Simmons appeared on CNBC yesterday to discuss his role with the expansion AFL L.A. Kiss and said the team will be "bringing bombast and bang for the buck to football." Simmons, along with fellow Kiss member Paul Stanley, band manager Doc McGhee and longtime AFL team owner Brett Bouchy, will run the franchise. Simmons said, "We're going to be taking Arena Football to the next level -- family entertainment, bombast, more firepower than most Third World countries." He noted fans will "find out that you can bring your entire family and treat them to an entire season for 99 bucks." CNBC's Kelly Evans asked, "How well does this team have to do for you to get your money back?" Simmons: "We're not looking at the (short-term). We always take a look at it in the long way, in the same way that the investment community does. You can't take a look at it like, 'Where's my pay date?' You've got to love something, put your nose to the ground, smell it, feel it, touch it, know the business model, know the structure of how it works. We understand that part." CNBC's Carl Quintanilla said, "We've talked to you for years about how good Kiss is at licensing. This is like the icing on the cake" ("Squawk on the Street," CNBC, 8/20).

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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