PGA Championship App Goes Free (Live Video Costs Extra)
PGA of America and Turner Sports are changing the pricing model of their PGA Championship iPhone app this year. The app, which features live… Read more »
EA Sports Strikes Interactive, Branding Partnership With Premier League
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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), which has long held many official national licenses for FIFA-endorsed soccer video games, is building on its s… Read more »
Verizon Wireless Hopes NFL Mobile App Will Drive Video On Demand
Leveraging its $720 million deal with the NFL, Verizon Wireless has rolled out a new app in time for the 2010 NFL football season. It is fre… Read more »
SB Nation Buys The Sporting Blog
Even while fan-based SB Nation is in the middle of launching 20 regional sports sites, the company has now acquired The Sporting Blog from S… Read more »
@ paidContent Mobile: Live NBA Games Coming To iPad This Fall
“We anticipate we’ll have our live streaming games available on iPad in the fall,” NBA Digital SVP and GM Bryan Perez told our paidContent M… Read more »
World Cup Stats: Records For BBC, New Territory For ITV
– The BBC World Cup site got an average 5.9 million unique UK users per week during the tournament, peaking at 9 million in week two (sourc… Read more »
Univision, ESPN: 25 Million-Plus Hours Of World Cup Games Watched Online
The World Cup is over — and the final digital numbers are in from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Univision, both of which made big plays for online a… Read more »
Turner, Time Inc. Execs Got The SI.com Deal Done; Now About Making It Work
We all have personal soundtracks. Mine started playing Maybe This Time soon after I got off the phone with the top executives responsible fo… Read more »
Updated: Time Warner Tries Again With Turner, Sports Illustrated Sans Cable
Before everyone had the AOL-Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger to kick around, there was Turner and Time Warner — the combo that was supposed t… Read more »
World Cup Goes Digital — Only For Some
As this year’s World Cup winds down with today’s semi-final game between Germany and Spain and this upcoming weekend’s final match, let’s re… Read more »
Facebook: No, We’re Not Sponsoring England’s Soccer Team
Mail Online’s exclusive is wrong and Telegraph.co.uk’s story is off, too, apparently.
Over the weekend, the latter reported Facebook is in… Read more »
BT Vision Undercuts BSkyB On Sky Sports
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By staff and agencies: BT (NYSE: BT) stepped up its push into the pay-TV market today by cutting the price of watching Premier League footba… Read more »
Stats: Five Percent Of English Soccer Viewers Watched Match Online
Let’s hope broadcasters have got their CDNs in order – this summer’s World Cup is proving a genuine watershed for live online TV streaming.… Read more »
Yahoo’s Winning The World Cup Contest In U.S.
Over a third of visitors to the leading World Cup-related sites in the U.S. are going to Yahoo’s site, according to Hitwise, which monitors… Read more »
London 2012 Olympics Plans To Profit Online
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London 2012 Olympics organisers aim to make money from their online operations, including capitalising on a domestic commercial straitjacket… Read more »
World Cup vs Olympics: How The Next Big Tournament’s Shaping Up Online
photo: Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
“It’s an appropriate time to compare what we’re doing against the World Cup,” Alex Balfour, the new media head of the London Organising Com… Read more »
ITV.com Claims 130k Live Viewers Per World Cup Game
ITV Live – the broadcaster’s info-laden, dual-screen viewing beta, which we reported about pre-launch – got an inauspicious debut during the… Read more »
Vodafone UK’s Overzealous Content Filtering Blocks World Cup
So much for the World Cup giving a boost to mobile video Read more »
Weekend Video: IBM’s Augmented Reality Wimbledon App
We reported on IBM’s first Seer app for Wimbledon last year. Now, with the tournament starting Monday, Big Blue has released an updated vers… Read more »
Bleacher Report Taps Ex-Yahoo/Fox Sports Exec Brian Grey As CEO
Former Fox Sports Interactive exec Brian Grey has left venture firm Polaris Venture Partners to take on the CEO post at sports content site… Read more »
Online, Mobile Video Scores In World Cup
It will be a while before we get the full stats for online and mobile viewing during the FIFA World Cup 2010 but we already know some of the… Read more »
World Cup In Numbers: Digital Stats For The Greatest Show On Earth
Here’s how the 2010 World Cup in South Africa plays out by the numbers online…
– Five million UK adults will watch matches online at hom… Read more »
World Cup Mobile TV May Miss The Goal
The BBC and London 2012 are planning to make mobile a significant feature of the Olympics in two years’ times. Until then, will this summer’… Read more »
@ IABIW: Bowman: Content Getting More ‘Personal’; Desktop Content Freefall
Introduced as the man who brought baseball into the digital age, Major League Baseball Advanced Media CEO Bob Bowman had a message to drive… Read more »
Yahoo Pulls Beckham From Sidelines For World Cup Campaign
Poor David Beckham. Injured out of this World Cup, England’s icon is relegated back to his more frequent role nowadays of selling his image… Read more »
SB Nation Launching 20 Regional Sports Sites; First Batch Includes NYC, DC
With minimal additional investment and no extra hires, fan-based SB Nation is launching 20 new regional sports sites during the next few we… Read more »
Mobile Expected To Be The Big Winner At World Cup 2010
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa will kick off on June 11, and many expect the series of games to be a tipping point for mobile — and mo… Read more »
Fantasy Sports Ventures Buys Sports Blog The Big Lead
Fantasy Sports Ventures, which counts more than 600 owned and affiliated sports sites in its network, has now added popular sports blog The… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Blinkbox Vids, STV App, Dave Series, The FA
– Blinkbox vids: The VOD service is nearly doubling growing its catalogue to over 1,400 4,000 hours (company clarification) by adding deals… Read more »
Why Sling — Not Sirius XM — Was My Stanley Cup Road Trip Savior
Our six-month trial for Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) expired May 24 — and the company’s flawed customer service may keep it dark. My own experien… Read more »
World Cup Soccer Players Stopped From Using Social Media
In the age of transparency, one workers’ union leader has already ruffled feathers by tweeting updates from negotiations with employers. Now… Read more »
ESPN Upfront: Free ESPN Local, Geo Apps, Social Games Deal With Playdom
ESPN (NYSE: DIS), which has already notched more than six million downloads for its free ScoreCenter app, continues to expand its digital pr… Read more »
Roku To Deliver UFC Live PPV, On Demand
Roku’s 500,000-plus customers already have access to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), MLB.TV, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) VOD and MMA’s Midwest Cage Championsh… Read more »
Nevermind 3D, Could This Be The Connected-TV World Cup?
Verdicts may not be expected until next week on the BBC-proposed Canvas connected-TV standard – but home electronics makers are already brin… Read more »
Univision To Live Stream All World Cup Games
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Univision will be live streaming all 64 games of this year’s World Cup, as part of an its online sports push to coincide with the event. The… Read more »
Fox Sports’ David Hill: ‘Leagues Will Kill Goose That Lays Golden Eggs’
David Hill stands in the crowded Fox Networks Booth on the opening day of The Cable Show 2010, scanning a series of video highlights, verbal… Read more »
Yahoo Strikes Premier League Highlights Deal
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By Mark Sweney: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has struck a deal with the Premier League for the UK online highlights for the 2010 to 2013 seasons.
Fro… Read more »
Daily Racing Form Powering Thoroughbred Section For NBCSports.com In Time For Triple Crown
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Just in time for the annual horse racing hype fest that comes out of the gate with the Kentucky Derby, racing’s “bible” and the network with… Read more »
Interview: Turner’s David Levy: All March Madness Games Will Still Stream Live
Caught up with a frenetic David Levy long enough to get some answers on the digital aspects of the blockbuster $10.8 billion 14-year deal Tu… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Absolute Radio, Premier League, Canvas On Freesat
– Absolute Radio: Monthly streamed online hours reached 7.9 million in March, says the broadcaster, which hates the fact that Rajar doesn’t… Read more »
