If you’re looking for the latest video clips from your favorite sports, you might soon find them on Twitter. The social media company has solidified a deal with ESPN that will let users check out the action via Twitter video clips. Read more at GigaOM »
Bosses of fast-growing online sports broadcaster Perform Group earned millions last week when they cashed out some shares. But their company remains focused on building up by bolting on global sports sites. Read more »
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 »
The 2012 Summer Games are the start of a new era for NBC Universal — an Olympics streamed in real time for fans who don’t want to wait for the packaged prime-time experience. For Mark Lazarus, it’s a grand experiment in a $1 billion laboratory. Read more »
For the first time in the digital age one U.S. network has complete rights across platforms. ESPN will live stream 800 hours+ on broadband network ESPN3, plus ESPN and ESPN2 via Watch ESPN, And it’s only for subscribers. Tennis Everywhere, as long as someone pays. Read more »
Golf fans beware: The U.S. Open are going down in San Francisco this week, and at least part of the competition will happen while most of us are at the office. But no worries: The prestigious tournament will be live streamed online and on mobile devices. Read more »
Fresh from its IPO, the increasingly good-looking online sports video and betting outfit Perform is buying big to add live match data to its services. Read more »
Organisers want to stop athletes and spectators from publishing photos, video and audio from this summer’s London Olympics, in an effort to protect Big Media rights outlay – but that doesn’t mean the Olympics doesn’t have a social media strategy… Read more »
How does a faded Major League Baseball franchise– one that hasn’t won a championship in 24 years and has fallen into disrepair under consec… Read more »
Manchester United football club is demanding that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) bar all Android apps that contain its logo. Read more »
This week, Major League Soccer introduced updated apps that let fans stream 230 live pro soccer games next season on iOS and Android mobile… Read more »
CBSSports.com is encouraging cubicle dwellers to turn their lair into a basketball temple and post photos on Facebook for a March Madness co… Read more »
NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Sports sold $25 million in digital advertising for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — and has more than doubled the amount for t… Read more »
Mark Phillip wants to save cable television. Well, kind of. He really wants to make life easier for sports fanatics like himself, but in doi… Read more »
With the emergence of new star guard Jeremy Lin driving regional cable ratings for New York Knicks games to new heights, and Governor Andrew… Read more »
Streaming March Madness tournament games next month won’t be as free and easy as it was last year, with broadcast partners CBS (NYSE: CBS) a… Read more »
Bleacher Report appears determined to prove that love of minutia-based sports fare has no bounds. Today, the upstart sports site announced t… Read more »
NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) will once again use its Olympics coverage to search for what it calls the “holy grail” of audience measurement. T… Read more »
He may have outplayed NBA superstar Kobe Bryant in the Garden Friday night, but the pressure keeps mounting on New York Knicks guard Jeremy… Read more »
It’s not the record average of 111 million viewers who watched the game on television, but NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) says it notched a digital miles… Read more »
In what is becoming a ritual akin to Superbowl Week itself, federal prosecutors today announced the seizure of 16 websites that offered live… Read more »
The BBC will on Wednesday morning refresh its BBC Sport site for the first time significantly since 2004, with a greater emphasis on live da… Read more »
Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
– ESPN: The sports network is seeing a reorg: John Kosner has been promoted to EVP, digital and print media, from SVP and GM of the divisio… Read more »
The ultimate “big game” will get its first live video presentation on personal computers, tablets and mobile phones when NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) a… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. has bought The Big Lead and a family of other sports blogs. The company hopes the acquisition, when combined with it… Read more »
TV and online exec Russell Stopford is the new head of digital for one of the world’s richest soccer clubs, Manchester City. Read more »
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire… Read more »
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more »
News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost ce… Read more »
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, an… Read more »
The NFL and NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) garnered a lot of attention yesterday with news that the Super Bowl (along with the Pro Bowl and two Wild Card… Read more »
Digital sports rights company Perform has bought out two online sports firms in deals worth almost £10 ($15.55)m. Read more »
Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations… Read more »
Illustrating how rival platforms are keen to attract quality apps from iOS to their stores, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are… Read more »
When baseball great Albert Pujols signed a staggering 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last week, he became… Read more »
The BBC is permitting use of its iPlayer mobile apps over 3G mobile networks, ahead of its big 2012 Olympic Games mobile push. Read more »
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport i… Read more »
USA Today is continuing to try to build up its digital side, as the print business struggles on, with another purchase designed to appeal to… Read more »
