Watching MLB games live on YouTube is now possible… if you live in Europe: The league is starting to stream two games per day on the video site, but not in key markets. Read more at GigaOM »
One thing that emerged from our media conference was that there is no single solution when it comes to the future of content, or the monetization of media — and that is probably a good thing. Read more »
MLB’s At Bat app was accessed 6 million times on Monday, the first day of baseball’s 2013 season. That’s more than double the app’s audience on Opening Day last year. Read more at GigaOM »
This year’s mobile app for iOS and Android app can be used on both platforms and has a new deal bundling GameDay Audio subscriptions for free. Read more at GigaOM »
MLB.tv is one of success stories of the online video streaming business. Thanks to rabid baseball fans across the globe, the service has signed up millions of subscribers, racking up mega-millions of dollars in revenues. And today, the service celebrates its 10th birthday. Read more at GigaOM »
After an intense series of live sports events online — from the U.S. Open and NBA playoffs to Wimbledon and the Tour de France — it’s odd to hit a black-out window for the All-Star Game. Everything is geared to sending fans to their TVs. Read more »
Major League Baseball is changing the rules for its contest to select the last two 2012 All-Stars, allowing tweets with official hashtags in the last four hours to equal browser or mobile votes. But can a tweet equal a site visit or SMS in value? Read more »
Last year, Major League Baseball fans cast more than 50 million votes for the last players to be added to the 2011 All-Star Game rosters. Voting is underway to do the same for the 2012 All-Star Game but should you chime in? Read more »
Traditional cable is no longer about choice; it’s about access. As an access provider for content, cable has the widest depth of content right now, but it also costs the most. So how long can it keep content and customers? Read more at GigaOM »
MLB’s office of Advanced Media has had the video streaming and mobile game figured out far longer any of its American peers in professional sports. And their mobile app is having a record-setting season in 2012, with 3 million downloads just a week into baseball season. Read more at GigaOM »
Another week, another media company experimenting with putting up high-profile video content on Facebook. Major League Baseball is letting f… Read more »
YouTube will be broadcasting all Major League Baseball games on its site in Japan next year, in what the company is calling “the largest par… Read more »
Wow…this one is a doozie. Bob Bowman, the outsized CEO of Major League Baseball Advance Media, has filed the required paperwork to explore… Read more »
It doesn’t look like the Yankees got a big win when it comes to the adoption of their in-market live game streaming offering this year. Spor… Read more »
Updated:Three weeks into the 2009 baseball season, MLB.com is doing a lot better than Major League Baseball’s other New York-based franchise… Read more »
“Would it be possible that digital media could do for baseball what national TV did for football?” Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB Advanced Media, as… Read more »
Fantasy sports companies like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), CBS (NYSE: CBS) Sportsline and others can now breathe a sigh of relief: the U.S. Supreme C… Read more »
For more than a year, we’ve been hearing threats to sue Sling Media over its place-shifting technology — and we’ve been hearing execs in sp… Read more »
This is the first season in my lifetime that KMOX radio isn’t the home of the St. Louis Cardinals, which explains why the CBS-owned station… Read more »