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Media Notes: Sky Sport Secures Champions League, Europa League

Sky Sport secured the exclusive broadcasting rights for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League for the next three years. It comes a day after Spark revealed it purchased the Premier League rights for the next three years starting next season. The announcement means Kiwi fans of top English teams would "need to buy subscriptions" to Sky and Spark to watch domestic and European football (NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 8/15).

All Media Baltics rebranded its premium sports channel, Viasat Sport Baltic, as TVPlay Sports. Mediasat reported the channel will offer 3,200 hours of live broadcasts for the coming season, including the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 8/15).

German MTI Teleport selected Swedish media technology company Net Insight for the creation of a media network for pay-TV broadcaster Sky Austria. The new media network connects 12 football stadiums throughout Austria with Sky Austria’s premises and MTI Teleport’s network operation center for live coverage of Austrian Bundesliga games (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 8/14).

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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