Manish Jha On The New Mobile ESPN
Manish Jha, Mobile ESPN SVP and GM, has given an interview on the closure of the ESPN MVNO, and said a lot of things that other people have… Read more »
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Industry Moves: MobileESPN VP Lands At Soapbox Mobile As CEO
By Rafat Ali
You will probably see a lot of this happening over the next couple of months: MobileESPN executives landing at other mobile companies, as th… Read more »
Interview: Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Interactive: Disney MVNO Post ESPN
We’ve got a post-Mobile ESPN interview with Steve Wadsworth, president, Walt Disney Interactive, over at sister site MocoNews.net. Mobile ES… Read more »
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Disney Will Spend $30 Million To Shut Down Mobile ESPN
By James Quintana Pearce
This articles starts: “The Walt Disney Co. will spend about $30 million to shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone services, but remain… Read more »
Mobile ESPN: The Schadenfreude
By Rafat Ali
Now that Mobile ESPN is closing, as reported first, everybody’s piling on with all kinds of “we told you so”, and none of them are far off t… Read more »
It’s Official: Mobile ESPN To Cease MVNO Ops Dec. 31; Will Seek Licensing
The announcement we told you last night was on the way just came out … Mobile ESPN will cease operations as an MVNO Dec. 31 and will refun… Read more »
Major Change Coming At Mobile ESPN; Winding Down Likely, Possibly Being Sold
By Rafat Ali
UPDATE: the company officially announced closure… more details in the follow-up post, here.
Exclusive: [by Rafat Ali & Staci Kramer] We ha… Read more »
Mobile ESPN’s History And MVNO Skepticism, In Links
By Rafat Ali
– Walt Disney Q3 Earnings: ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment
– Some More MVNO Math
– MobileESPN MVNO Revenue… Read more »
Philips Will Foot Bill For Premium Access At WSJ, ESPN Sites
On various dates between now and Dec. 17, non-subscribers of WSJ.com and ESPN.com will be able to scale the garden wall courtesy of an intri… Read more »
CBS.com, ESPN.com Benefit From Major On-Air Events
Two network sites are reaping rewards from marquee on-air events in recent days. For CBSNews.com, it was the debut of the CBS Evening News w… Read more »
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Gaming Round-Up: PS3 Rivals;Mini-Xbox; Dell Gaming; Gaming Granny; ESPN-GameTap; Casual Gaming
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
– PS3 rivals gear up for holiday season: Sony’s European rivals won’t waste any time capitalising on the PS3 delays this Christmas season.… Read more »
ESPN Trades Yahoo For Quigo Contextual Search
ESPN is parting ways with Yahoo this fall when it comes to contextual advertising, opting instead for a more customized ad auction approach… Read more »
Sports Round-up: ESPN-Big East; AOL Sports Blogs; Cycling Channel’s Free Web TV; HorseTV Launch ; Su
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
– ESPN, Big East Sign 6-Year Deal: As of 2007-08 season, ESPN will have the rights to broadcast Big East basketball, football and some othe… Read more »
More on Mobile ESPN’s Game Streaming
By Rafat Ali
We mentioned Mobile ESPN’s new plans to stream full-length college football games last night…more details now: it will kick off with Flori… Read more »
Mobile ESPN To Stream Full-Length College Football Games
By Rafat Ali
Mobile ESPN, the MVNO from Disney, is upping the stakes after a lackluster launch: it will broadcast full-length college football games on i… Read more »
Walt Disney Q3 Earnings — ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment
By James Quintana Pearce
Walt Disney has done its 2006 Q3 earnings call…the financial highlights are in this Reuters piece. Of relevance to mobile is that Disney s… Read more »
Earnings: Disney Surprises With 39 Percent Profit in Q2; MVNOs Slow Down Income
Concerns that it might be time for a dip at The Walt Disney Company (DIS) were unfounded as the company turned in a 39 percent increase in p… Read more »
Some More MVNO Math
By James Quintana Pearce
Jupiter Research analyst Julie Ask has done some back-of-an-envelope calculations and estimated there are 500,000 Americans looking for an e… Read more »
MobileESPN MVNO Revenue Modeling Estimates
By Rafat Ali
I’ll get in trouble for posting this, but what the heck…if they ask to take it down, I will.
Anyway, following on the Merrill Lynch resear… Read more »
Merrill Lynch Analyst: Time to Pull Plug on MobileESPN MVNO
By Rafat Ali
Bear my hyperbole during this post, but that’s the treatment it needs: I think this is preposterous…even though ESPN’s mobile service Mobi… Read more »
Industry Moves: MobileESPN Appoints New VP, Marketing
By Rafat Ali
Christopher Brush has joined ESPN as VP of marketing for its MVNO MobileESPN. In his new role, Brush will focus on the marketing and adverti… Read more »
ESPN Launches Samsung Ace
By James Quintana Pearce
Mobile ESPN has launched a new handset from Samsung, dubbed Ace. The handset has “a large QVGA display and stereo speakers…The user interf… Read more »
Big 10 & Fox Will Launch New Cable Net; Deals With Fox, ESPN/ABC Include New Media
In a sign of how thoroughly complicated sports programming deals have become, the Big 10 Conference new rights package includes a deal for a… Read more »
U.S. MVNOs Having Teething Troubles; MobileESPN Back on Drawing Board
By Rafat Ali
So discover WSJ, or they could have just read us…a front page story about the teething troubles U.S. MVNOs like MobileESPN and Amp’d Mobil… Read more »
MobileESPN’s Retail Distribution: Now in Sprint Stores
By Rafat Ali
Besides BestBuy, the MobileESPN MVNO service from ESPN, which had an initial exclusive deal with BestBuy, is now being retailed in about 575… Read more »
Earnings: DIS Earnings Beat Street; Online, Mobile Investments Offset Some Gains
The Walt Disney Company earned $733 million, up 12 percent over the $657 million in the same quarter last year. (It’s Disney’s FYQ2.) Dilute… Read more »
Iger: ESPN MVNO Initial Results “Lower Than Hoped”
Queried about Disney’s MVNO strategy during this afternoon’s Q2 earnings call, Disney president and CEO Bob Iger admitted that initial resul… Read more »
@ CTIA: Mobile ESPN Expands Retail Outlets To Sprint Stores
Better late than never … no understatement to say Mobile ESPN has yet to take off and one of the reasons — among many, including the high… Read more »
Hollywood Sees Not Just Money In Mobile, But Also Ways To Increase Loyalty
By Sahad PV
Hollywood Reporter: A good round-up story on what hollywood studios, TV networks and other entertainment companies are doing for the handhel… Read more »
ESPN Unveils Plans For MLB 2006
By James Quintana Pearce
Mobile ESPN is touting its content line up for the forthcoming basketball season…it includes: “Comprehensive scoreboards with game status… Read more »
Mobile ESPN Goes International
By James Quintana Pearce
ESPN is expanding its business internationally, targeting Canada, Europe and Latin America. “Mobile ESPN Publishing Worldwide distributes ES… Read more »
Mobile ESPN Phones on Sale At Disney Shareholders Meeting
By Rafat Ali
Big Pimpin’, they call it…at the Disney shareholders meeting today at the Arrowhead Pond near Disneyland, Disney-owned Mobile ESPN phone s… Read more »
Mossberg Not Too Enthusiastic About Mobile ESPN
ESPN execs have said all along that Mobile ESPN is designed for the hard-core sports fan and, as Walt Mossberg found out, they were telling… Read more »
NATPE 2006: Interview: Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Interactive Group
: [Staci D. Kramer] I had the chance to sit down with Steve Wadsworth for a few minutes after he appeared on a NATPE panel with other top di… Read more »
Online, Mobile Sports Sites Not Always In Sync For NFL Playoffs.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been wandering around with review versions of a Verizon LG9800 and a Verizon broadband wireless card. I put bot… Read more »
The MVNO Battle
By James Quintana Pearce
This year will see how successful the much touted MVNOs in the US will be…
“The companies say that as the big national cell phone carriers… Read more »
Mobile ESPN Signs Six Exclusive Category Sponsors
We’ve already written about some of this but here are the official details: Cisco Systems (information technology), Coors (beer), General Mo… Read more »
NASCAR Returns To ESPN; Deal Includes Some Online, Wireless Rights; TNT Extends Pact, Adds Rights
George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports, assured me the other day that the new NASCAR deal would have broad multimedia rights a… Read more »
@ Media Week: Bodenheimer: ESPN’s Multi-Platform Strategy Is Paying Off In Sales and Deals
ESPN’s push to sell itself to advertisers as a multi-platform company is paying off, George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports, t… Read more »
Industry Moves: Lacey New Marketing Head Of ESPN; Maitra To Top Content Post At TiVo; Brown Joins Bo
Katie Lacey, SVP-Marketing, ESPN: After a lengthy searchj, ESPN is turning to Pepsi-Cola vet Lacey to head marketing across the multi-platfo… Read more »
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