ESPN PodCenter Through IPhone — Exclusive Content Planned
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ESPN Changes Broadband Game Plan; Will Relaunch ESPN360 With Emphasis On Live Events
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Broadband Content Bits: Discovery; ESPN360-FIFA; I-Report
Discovery Streaming: Starting Friday, Discovery is moving ahead with a mixed approach to broadband streaming will stream some ad-supported,… Read more »
Earnings: Disney Quarter Profits Up 14 Percent, Revenues Up 7 Percent
Disney’s spring quarter earnings were released at the same time as the news about Club Penguin. The company’s net income rose 14 percent, to… Read more »
ESPN To Employees: You Can’t Get Verizon Phones
By Rafat Ali
This is very funny, and true. ESPN, which closed down its MVNO and then relaunched again recently as a content app on Verizon and branded ES… Read more »
NBA Extensions With Disney and Turner Include ‘Robust’ Digital Rights
The new NBA media deals are done — extending contracts with The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN and ABC and Turner Broadcasting’s TNT through th… Read more »
Industry Moves: Disney-ABC; ESPN Content
Some significant organizational changes at Disney-ABC Worldwide Television, Disney Media Networks and ESPN …
TV distribution: The impendi… Read more »
Big Plans For ESPN On Mobile
By James Quintana Pearce
The New York Times has a comprehensive piece on mobile video/TV, although most of the info comes from ESPN (it also talks about CBS, Hearst,… Read more »
ESPN Buys Cricket Website Cricinfo
By Rafat Ali
ESPN has made its biggest online foray into cricket: it has bought the largest cricket news and info website Cricinfo, from The Wisden Group… Read more »
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ESPN MVP Launches App on Verizon Wireless; Mirroring The MobileESPN Apps
By Rafat Ali
This was announced in February, and is launching now: Verizon Wireless is launching ESPN MVP on its service, in a multi-year exclusive deal.… Read more »
ESPN’s 2007 Fantasy Baseball Season Starts Out With Nightmare; Foes Gloat As Site Retools
We’re a little late to this — not that ESPN’s competitors didn’t make sure we were informed — but didn’t want to let it slide … While ML… Read more »
Mobile ESPN Plans News In Tamil And Bengali; Content Providers Beefing Up Operations
By Nikhil Pahwa
Sricharan Iyengar, VP (Sales and Marketing) for ESPN has told the Hindu that ESPN is working on offering sports news in Tamil and Bengali, a… Read more »
Masters’ Online Exposure Increases
Day one of the Masters is underway at Augusta National and I can vouch for one thing: the streaming video is pretty decent on a small laptop… Read more »
Industry Moves: New ESPN VP Digital Research; Takkle CTO; Slacker Hires XM Co-Founder; Kosmix Miller
– ESPN: The Disney unit is boosting its digital research firepower with the hiring of Dr. Tom Evans as VP-digital and cross media measureme… Read more »
ESPN Acquires NASCAR Fan Site Jayski
By David Kaplan
Nascar information site Jayski.com, named for its founder, Nascar fan Jay Adamczyk, has been bought by ESPN. Terms of the deal were not reve… Read more »
CTIA: ESPN Mobile TV Lineup, Two Made-For-Mobile Shows
By James Quintana Pearce
ESPN has announced the line-up for its new channel, ESPN Mobile TV, which will show on MediaFLO’s service, currently on Verizon’s V cast ser… Read more »
Time Inc. Highlights Recent Digital Moves, Emphasizes Video For Revamped Sites
By David Kaplan
A few hours after announcing it was ceasing publication of its Life newspaper insert and having the brand serve as an online photo portal, s… Read more »
First Look: Verizon V Cast Mobile TV AKA Qualcomm MediaFlo
As luck would have it, I happen to be in one of the markets where Verizon V Cast Mobile TV is live. I actually contacted Verizon PR earlier… Read more »
ESPN Makes Another Acq-Hire; Buys NBA Blog TrueHoop.com
Another day, another acq-hire for ESPN as the network looks to established online voices. Yesterday the Disney division announced it had pic… Read more »
ESPN Makes Another Fantasy Sports Play; Acquires ‘Talented Mr. Roto’ Site; Free Fantasy Baseball
Updated below: ESPN is making another pitch at the lucrative fantasy sports market. The Disney network has picked up Talented Mr Roto in wha… Read more »
Interview: Salil Mehta, EVP, ESPN Enterprises
It’s a cliche, to be sure, but looking at Mobile ESPN, it’s hard not to think what a difference a year makes. This time last year, Mobile ES… Read more »
DIS Investors Day: ESPN-Verizon Confirmed; Enhancing ABC.com
Listening to the webcast of the Disney investors meeting today has been almost like being there — if you ignore the silent gaps when people… Read more »
MobileESPN To Relaunch As a Content App Exclusively With Verizon; Dumps Sprint; MediaFlo Channel Too
By Rafat Ali
The day it was announced that former head honcho Manish Jha left to join Vantrix as CEO, comes the news, via AP, that MobileESPN is relaunch… Read more »
Manish Jha Leaves ESPN Mobile; Joins Vantrix As CEO
By Rafat Ali
Manish Jha, the high-profile head of the MobileESPN MVNO forays from Disney, as well as later the SVP of ESPN Mobile (the publishing arm) af… Read more »
Active Network Expands Again; Acquires Cool Running
By David Kaplan
Community sports tech company The Active Network has acquired Cool Running, which claims to be the longest-running commercial site devoted t… Read more »
@ CES: Iger Keynote: Disney.com Relaunch Plans; Piracy Of All Kinds
Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger’s keynote is underway, kicking off literally with an intro for “Monday Night Keynote.” Only a few minutes i… Read more »
Disney's Internet Strategy Comes Under Scrutiny As Disney.com Relaunch Nears; No Major Acquisitions
The NYT uses the pending relaunch of Disney.com — CEO Bob Iger is supposed to introduce the revamp during his Jan. 8 CES keynote — as a wi… Read more »
ESPN’s Mobile Licensing Deals Soon
By Rafat Ali
ESPN, still reeling from the announced closure of MobileESPN MVNO, is close to announcing some distribution/licensing deals on its content a… Read more »
New MTVN Division Combines Male-Skewing Nets And Sites
Viacom’s MTV Networks has yet another plan for integrating sites and nets, this time with the goal of making it easier for advertisers to re… Read more »
Disney Acquires UK Sports Net NASN As Launchpad For ESPN Expansion
From the Journal … Walt Disney Co. is spending a reported $107-120 million (including debt assumption) to acquire the North American Sport… Read more »
Disney Nets Try New Tricks: SoapNet Fantasy League; ESPN Local Podcast Network
SOAPnet is borrowing a leaf from sports sib ESPN, setting up a “fantasy soap league” where fans (women, primarily) can trade characters and… Read more »
Disney By The Numbers: Nearly 500,000 Movies Sold On iTunes; Nearly 19 Million Episodes On ABC.com
Disney CEO Bob Iger updated some of its online content delivery stats during Thursday’s earnings call. The numbers are current as of this we… Read more »
The Mobile ESPN Patent
By James Quintana Pearce
MacNN is reporting that Disney has filed a patent covering the delivery of ESPN content to mobile phones and devices, which he uses to argue… Read more »
Did Wall Street Kill Mobile ESPN?
By James Quintana Pearce
This article puts forth the opinion that it was Wall Street’s short term focus on quarterly revenue that drove Disney to kill Mobile ESPN sh… Read more »
Disney in Talks to Sell E! Stake for $1.2 Billion to Comcast: LAT
By Jonathan Berr
Disney is in talks to sell its stake in the E! cable TV network to Comcast for $1.2 billion and it is close to signing multi-billion dollar… Read more »
MVNOs Need To Play The Game Within Its Current Boundaries
By James Quintana Pearce
Chris Ambrosio, director of Wireless Device Strategies Service at Strategy Analytics has used the collapse of Mobile ESPN to illustrate what… Read more »
Mipcom: ESPN Digital Doing Well – Just Skip The Sections About Profit, Pesky MVNO
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
ESPN is “very bullish” about its new media operations, said ESPN president George Bodenheimer, despite refusing to admit that ESPN’s new med… Read more »
MVNOs Stay Optimistic
By James Quintana Pearce
The discussion over whether MVNOs are a viable business model continues, with this article citing most MVNOs as still being upbeat about the… Read more »
Adderton: “The Industry Is Not Broken”
By James Quintana Pearce
Unsurprisingly Peter Adderton, CEO of Amp’d Mobile, is still upbeat about the potential of MVNOs, and Amp’d. He said Mobile ESPN was just Di… Read more »
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