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WNBA Kicks Off Season With New Marketing Campaign; Samsung Sponsors Player Awards

The WNBA tips off its ‘14 season on Friday night backed by a new “WNBA Summer Hoops” marketing campaign aiming to drive interest in the league during the summer months. Each of the league’s 12 teams will conduct local activations to participate in the league-wide campaign. The marketing effort includes initiatives around Memorial Day, Fathers Day, and July 4 to help boost league-wide attendance that last season averaged 7,531 fans per game, up 1% from '12. New for the WNBA this year is Samsung sponsoring the league’s player performance awards, including players of the month, rookie of the month and year-end awards. The league did not have a sponsor for those awards last year. The WNBA also begins its 18th season with the Sparks franchise under new ownership with a group led by Basketball HOFer Magic Johnson and Dodgers Chair Mark Walter.

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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