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Founded in 2002 with the mission of offering exclusive MLB rights to an initial base of about 50,000, mainly hardball-starved expats, NASN now beams a variety of more than 800 live or slightly delayed U.S. and Canadian sporting events to 10 million homes across Europe. This year NASN has added nine countries, including Portugal and Kazakhstan, bringing its total to 32, with the number of digital platforms carrying the channel in each market growing just as rapidly...
Though marquee U.S. leagues are NASN's big draw, the channel doesn't shrink from sports that even Americans ignore such as Arena and Canadian football and Major League Lacrosse. As for the U.S. version of the global game, NASN dropped Major League Soccer when viewers complained that they got better matches from local leagues. That means L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham's best chance of appearing on NASN is if he can start bending curveballs like L.A. Dodgers star Brad Penny...
...fourth quarter: Marco Iannuzzi, everyone's favorite Canadian, just picked up four yards on a run. "It's turning into the first half again," says one writer in the press...
...exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused," he says. He also makes a point of hobnobbing with the right people. Nearly two years ago, Munk formed a blue-chip advisory board at Barrick whose members include former U.S. President George Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, as well as former Bundesbank chairman Karl Otto Pohl...
Munk's taste for authority figures has drawn some criticism. When he praised Augusto Pinochet Ugarte recently for the former Chilean strongman's contribution to economic reform, some Canadian commentators took him to task for ignoring the dictator's human-rights abuses. Munk still bridles at the charges but notes, "Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights." The alternative to liberalized economies, he argues, "is the true enslavement of the people...