What Happened To CAA's Sports Rollup Fund? Helping IOC in Sports Media Rights Deals Instead
Exactly a year ago CAA announced its biggest bet on sports media, and formed a new unit called CAA Sports Media Venture, as a rollup venture… Read more »
Exactly a year ago CAA announced its biggest bet on sports media, and formed a new unit called CAA Sports Media Venture, as a rollup venture… Read more »
Still conscious of staying on the right side of regulators and anxious newspapers, the BBC has assured its critics that – despite relaunch… Read more »
Shock. Horror. NBC is angry at the new Olympics channel to be launched by USOC and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announced yesterday. Yesterday, th… Read more »
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That was quick: The United States Olympic Committee announced this morning that it will launch a cable TV network devoted to Olympic and Par… Read more »
Corrected: I really must stop believing some news sources. Contrary to what Revolution magazine reported from its own conference, Blue State… Read more »
Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger has warned the International Olympics Committee Press Commission its media accreditation rules are… Read more »
The London 2012 Olympics is planning a significant mobile infrastructure roll-out for both the public and for bandwidth-hungry visiting medi… Read more »
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal… Read more »
I already reported on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games’ online strategy in text here. Now see London 2012 new media head… Read more »
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal… Read more »
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In the two years since Jeff Zucker became president and CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), he’s shifted the digital strategy more than once; p… Read more »
While Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has been talking up TV Everywhere, NBC (NYSE: GE) quietly has been planning once again to limi… Read more »
Major League Baseball’s digital unit may have dropped Microsoft’s Silverlight as its online video platform, but Silverlight apparently works… Read more »
Although the summer Olympics ended just over six months ago, the networks are already putting their digital plans in place for London’s 2012… Read more »
CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner’s Turner Networks are in discussions about making a joint bid for the broadcast rights for 2014 and 2016 Oly… Read more »
In UK, BBC may not now win the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics the 2016 Summer Games after the International Olympic Committee turned dow… Read more »
Better late than never… While the Beijing Summer Olympics is a distant memory at this point, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley… Read more »
The long march to the 2012 Olympics continues with the announcement that Spanish web portal Terra, part of the Telefónica group, has bagged… Read more »
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) claims it streamed at least 12 million hours of Olympics content across its digital platforms — HD, broadband, mob… Read more »
If Fox Sports CEO David Hill had any qualms about live streaming simulcasts with TV, it sounds like the Olympics took care of it. Hill told… Read more »
Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.:
– Chinese online traffic exceeds U.S. websites during Olympics: So says WebTrends, cit… Read more »
I have post-Olympics blues, but that doesn’t stop some news and numbers:
– NBC’s final numbers online: NBCU has come out with some numbers… Read more »
Great lessons in usability … Almost as soon as Rafat posted about the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, we started getting queri… Read more »
That’s the estimate from eMarketer: it says that the online video advertising on NBCOlympics.com will reach a relatively small $5.75 million… Read more »
We spend a lot of time separating the wheat from the chaff around here so you don’t have to and the latest broadband release from NBC requir… Read more »
We’re not going to ruin the results of Usain Bolt’s just-finished 200M run for you… Of course, NBCOlympics.com already has the results (sp… Read more »
The cauldron for the 2008 Olympics is still burning in Beijing and NBC has the next two locked in already but ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) John Skippe… Read more »
With the first week of the 2008 Olympics in the history books, we’re getting a better picture of NBCOlympics.com.
Some of the stats throug… Read more »
Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a ne… Read more »
– NBCU claims $10 million in Olympic ad sales: But that’s for TV and digital combined, as NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) reps declined to provide… Read more »
NetEase.com, one of the big Chinese online portals, reported its Q2 earnings today, and the growth came ahead of analyst views. NetEase earn… Read more »
Five days into the Olympic Games, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs hailed the audience ratings results as “phenomenal” now that the first resu… Read more »
We aren’t planning a daily traffic report of this but NBCU’s numbers through this afternoon are out and so far more than 1 million streams o… Read more »
Whether or not you agree with it, NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) investment in acquiring the rights and producing Olympic multi-platform video p… Read more »
Update: Because people are asking this in the comments thread below: The DVD of the opening ceremony is now for sale…can be ordered here.… Read more »
While we are still awaiting the Olympics opening ceremony on TV on the West Coast (oh the misery), and pretend it hasn’t happened almost a d… Read more »
Was going to go with ‘let a thousand widgets bloom’ but we’re way beyond that with the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE… Read more »
The Beijing Games begin in four days — and with them, the most complicated, intensive digital media Olympics yet. Perkins Miller heads that… Read more »
YouTube has finally managed to get a piece of the action for the Olympics, though a minor one: it will show about three hours of daily cover… Read more »
Of the $1.5 billion that marketers are expected to spend on advertising tied to the summer Olympic games, only $100 million will go towards… Read more »
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