ESPN Launches Photo Comparison Game On The iPhone
Fans of Photo Hunt rejoice. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Cameraman, a new application just launched on the App Store, will seem familiar to regular user… Read more »
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ESPN Pushing Social Sports Video Through Bebo
Bebo and ESPN (NYSE: DIS) have partnered to deliver sports video highlights to the teen-oriented social net, in what is one of its first sig… Read more »
ESPN Leads $80 Million Investment In The Active Network; Will Pursue Acquisitions
By Joseph Weisenthal
The Active Network, the big provider of sports-related technology, has just closed a huge, $80 million sixth round led by ESPN. Past backers… Read more »
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ESPN’s New 15-Year Deal With SEC Includes Live Mobile College Games
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has the right to simulcast Southeastern Conference (SEC) games on mobile under a new 15-year deal with the powerhouse athle… Read more »
High School Sports Site ESPNRise.com Launches Today
Another ESPN (NYSE: DIS) story worth mentioning … after 18 months of acquisitions and building, the Disney sports unit is launching its ma… Read more »
Updated: ESPN Will Pay $2.25 Billion For Some SEC Rights; Live Streaming Included
As a former card-carrying member of the SEC (woof, woof, woof for anyone who cares), I can only look at these numbers in awe … ESPN (NYSE:… Read more »
ESPN And MLB’s Advanced Media Extends Deal, Including Mobile, To 2013
By Tricia Duryee
Our sister site PaidContent.org is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media group (MLBAM) are extending th… Read more »
ESPN-MLBAM: Skipper: ‘Just Needed A New Deal’, Bowman: Local Live Streaming ‘When Time Is Right’
Last December, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) exercised an opt-out clause in its seven-year digital rights contract with Major League Baseball Advanced Me… Read more »
ESPN-MLBAM Extend Digital Rights Deal Through 2013; Live Game Streaming, International
It’s been in limbo for months but ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and MLBAM finally have extended their digital rights deal through 2013. The just-announce… Read more »
ESPN Wants U.S. Rights For 2014, 2016 Olympics; Would Air More Live; Tape Delays ‘Not Our Culture’
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 »
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ESPN Buys Motorsport’s Racing-Live.com, Disney Bags RaisingKids.co.uk
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is buying Racing-Live.com, an independent motorsports site founded way back in 1995. Racing-Live.com claims three million m… Read more »
ESPN Buys Motorsport’s Racing-Live.com, Disney Bags RaisingKids.co.uk
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is buying Racing-Live.com, an independent motorsports site founded way back in 1995. Racing-Live.com claims three million m… Read more »
ESPN To Launch Online Action Sports Network; Morphing EXPN Into It
By Rafat Ali
Right on cue around the X Games, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has announced plans to launch an online action sports network, imaginatively called ESPN A… Read more »
ESPN Rolls Out New Search Platform This Week; Foundation Of Forthcoming Site Redesign
By David Kaplan
ESPN.com is planning a major site revamp, but first, it wants to get search right and will then build around some of its new functions. On T… Read more »
Industry Moves: WB; Rotten Tomatoes; IAB; ESPN; MSN UK
– WB: Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes has been promoted to SVP-business and legal affairs for the company’s Digital Distribution division. In her… Read more »
Sports Shorts: ESPN360-Cricket; NBCU-Beijing; YES-NYT
– ESPN360.com Will Carry Exclusive Live Cricket Coverage: ESPN360.com has the exclusive U.S. broadband rights to live and replay coverage o… Read more »
ESPN In Talks With NFL Over NFL Network: Report
No independent confirmation of this yet, but WSJ is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is negotiating with the National Football League to take… Read more »
ESPN Acquires Student Sports, Inc. For High-School Sports Initiative ESPN RISE
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is acquiring Student Sports, Inc., a Torrance, Calif.-based digital media and event producer with a focus on high school sp… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: ESPN360.com; Network Sites’ Visits; UK, Canada iTunes; MySpace; Hulu
– ESPN (NYSE: DIS) reports audience growth across online and TV viewership: ESPN’s NBA coverage has grown across the company’s online and T… Read more »
ESPN Acquires Cable And ‘Expansive’ Digital Rights For Tennis’ US Open
The US Open moves to ESPN (NYSE: DIS) in 2009, giving the Disney sports unit bragging rights for the tennis Grand Slam: US Open, Australian… Read more »
Juha Christensen Says Sonopia Is Not Shutting Down, But Is Waiting For Better Times For MVNOs
By Tricia Duryee
Reports that Sonopia was shutting down spread like wildfire yesterday, but its founder Juha Christensen, said today it’s not true. The compa… Read more »
ESPN Syndicating Video Through Portal For First Time; ESPN Channel Launches On AOL
Back in 2004, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ended a three-year relationship with MSN designed to boost the sports site’s traffic while giving the Microso… Read more »
ESPN Acquires Girls Basketball Site Hoopgurlz
By Joseph Weisenthal
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has acquired girls-focused basketball site Hoopgurlz.com. The Seattle-based site, which reports on high school and college… Read more »
ESPN Pulls The Plug On Ad Network; Millard Warns About Treating Ads Like Pork Bellies
By David Kaplan
With nearly every media company getting in the ad network game — the latest entrant being Forbes — one major player is bucking the trend.… Read more »
Doing The Bristol Stomp: ESPN Responds To Criticism For Multi-Platform Approach
I wrote some long stories for the Sports Business Journal but nothing comes close to John Ourand’s magnum opus on ESPN (NYSE: DIS) in this w… Read more »
@ NBA Tech Summit: ESPN360 Adds HD
Some broadband networks have been pulling back from HD broadband but ESPN360.com will start to provide the higher-quality experience with it… Read more »
Industry Moves: Damon Phillips New VP-ESPN360.com
Damon Phillips is joining ESPN (NYSE: DIS) as the new VP of broadband network ESPN360.com; the post has been vacant since Jeff Cravens left… Read more »
Industry Moves: Mehta (Officially) Joins NBCU; President-Business Operations, Strategy, Development
As we told you back in November, ESPN/*Disney* vet Salil Mehta is the new head of biz dev for NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). The official title:… Read more »
ESPN Opens Broadband Access Beyond Certain Cable, ISP Subs To MIL, EDU
There’s still no notice of it on the site but, according to the NYT, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is planning to offer some live broadband programming f… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sony-DivX; ABC; ESPN; ACCSelect
By David Kaplan
– Sony, DivX pact for online downloads: Studios have resisted DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) software for downloads until now but Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictu… Read more »
Visits From Mobile Phone Users Outpace PC Users At ESPN.com
By Dianne See Morrison
Is ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) new mobile strategy paying off? For three days, ESPN.com has had more visits to its NFL content through its mobile pho… Read more »
ESPN Expands In High School Sports; Acquires SchoolSports Inc., Publisher Of Rise, RiseMag.com
By Joseph Weisenthal
Add this to the growing list of high school sports deals: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is acquiring SchoolSports Inc., a high school-focused sports medi… Read more »
Dutch Operator KPN Finds Success In Germany With Cheap Calls, Not Content
By Dianne See Morrison
Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Ba… Read more »
ESPNU Enlists Colleges For Student-Generated Sports Coverage
By David Kaplan
College sports network ESPNU is tapping students, professors and athletic departments at 20 universities to cover their respective schools’… Read more »
@ UBS Media Week: George Bodenheimer, President, ESPN: 50 Percent CPM Premium Online With Geotargets
By Joseph Weisenthal
ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) George Bodenheimer kicked off his presentation at the UBS Global Media Conference with a real crowd pleaser: a few of his… Read more »
Busy Week In NYC: UBS 35th Annual Global Media&Communications Conference
For the first time in four years, I won’t be spending a large chunk of early December in NYC hotel meetings rooms as media and tech execs ma… Read more »
Earnings: DIS: Strong Quarter Across The Board (Ditching ESPN MVNO Helps)
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company brought in another strong quarter, increasing net income to $877 million from $782 million in the same q… Read more »
CTIA Audio Interview: John Zehr, SVP-Digital Media Production, ESPN
I caught up for a few minutes at CTIA with John Zehr, the ESPN SVP of digital media production. We talked about ESPN’s multi-year exclusive… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: ESPN; mtvU/Cisco; CosmoGirl
By David Kaplan
– ESPN Premiere Original Webisodes, Mobisodes: ESPN.com has begun airing a new web series, Countdown Daily, which is updated Mondays throug… Read more »
ESPN Acquires Rugby Site Scrum.com
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Two months after buying cricket news Cricinfo, ESPN has bought rugby info site Scrum.com, Reuters reported. Scrum.com claims to attract as m… Read more »
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