David Kaplan
Jan 13, 2011 7:27 PM
Two of AOL’s new content partners, The Sporting News and Everyday Health, are both counting on the portal to deliver major traffic numbers in return for providing AOL (NYSE: AOL) with ad sales. In a conversation with execs from both The Sporting News and Everyday Health, it is revealed that…
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David Kaplan
Jan 13, 2011 4:32 PM
AOL (NYSE: AOL) organized a hasty after-market call to announce three content deals designed to buttress its push towards premium content. The most prominent involves a content sharing arrangement with The Sporting News. CEO Tim Armstrong, taking the lead on the call, noted that AOL’s sports blog FanHouse will remain…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 8, 2010 5:00 AM
Sporting News Today has been on the iPad for months via the Zinio newsstand. But Sporting News is trying to expand the discovery—and revenue—potential of its daily online magazine with a variation on the theme: a branded iPad app offering hundreds of pages of sports coverage for $2.99 a month.
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 17, 2010 2:19 PM
More details on the The Sporting News switch from free to paid for its digital daily Sporting News Today, which was first announced by Publisher Jeff Price at our paidContent2010 conference last month. The Sporting News is partnering with its current digital publisher Zinio for the April 1 launch. A…
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Amanda Natividad
Mar 11, 2010 10:01 PM
Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And what’s the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010’s The Truth About Subscriptions, who…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 15, 2010 10:24 AM
Jeff Price is back in the sports media biz—and this time his responsibility stretches across all platforms. Price, who left as president of SI Digital last April during a series of changes at Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX), joins The Sporting News as president and publisher. He’s on his way to…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 29, 2008 12:42 AM
Sporting News Today debuted Wednesday with about 35,000 advance subscribers; less than a week later, publisher Ed Baker told paidContent, the number of people getting free delivery of the digital sports daily has more than doubled to 75,000. But it’s still not enough to achieve the critical mass Baker wants—at…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 10, 2008 12:04 PM
The day after US News & World Report announced its shift comes word that another magazine is slashing its publication schedule and increasing online reliance ... Stretching back to 1886, The Sporting News has one of the longest track records when it comes to sports journalism. In recent decades, it…
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