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IndyCar To Unveil New Media Rights With Current Deals Expiring

IndyCar is unveiling its new media-rights deal tomorrow, CEO Mark Miles confirmed this afternoon. IndyCar’s deals with NBCSN and ABC expire after this season, and the series has been negotiating with the incumbents to try to get one to pick up the full season. A since-deleted tweet from an ABC-affiliated meteorologist on Saturday stated that '18 will be the final year of IndyCar races on ABC, including the Indy 500. IndyCar and NBC have yet to confirm that. IndyCar has been consulting with Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures on the negotiations.

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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