With the World Cup final coming Sunday, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) provided us with an update on how much traffic its digital properties have generated from the tournament to date. In total, ESPN says that a staggering 110,000 people per minute have been using its online and mobile services to access…

How does ESPN (NYSE: DIS) keep its growing empire fed? With deals like the exclusive 12-year pact with the ACC announced today. In exchange for a serious chunk of change—SBJput it at nearly $2 billion or $155 million a year—ESPN gets more than 4,800 events to spread across its various…

ESPN (NYSE: DIS), which has already notched more than six million downloads for its free ScoreCenter app, continues to expand its digital presence on devices with six new mobile apps announced at today’s upfront. Five are actually localized versions of the same one, a free ESPN Local app that will…

In less than a year, *ESPN* iPhone apps have been downloaded more than 4.5 million times—more than 2.2 2.7 million of the free ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ScoreCenter alone since its June debut. Most of the downloads are for ad-supported versions but twice in the past couple of weeks the Disney…

The day it was announced that former head honcho Manish Jha left to join Vantrix as CEO, comes the news, via AP, that MobileESPN is relaunching, not as an MVNO but as a content application, exclusively on Verizon Wireless in a multi-year deal. The deal has not been finalized, this…

UPDATE: the company officially announced closure… more details in the follow-up post, here. Exclusive: [by Rafat Ali & Staci Kramer] We have heard from numerous sources that MobileESPN, the ambitious yet doomed MVNO effort from Disney, is in for a big change this week: either a phased winding down/transition, or…

Mobile ESPN, the MVNO from Disney, is upping the stakes after a lackluster launch: it will broadcast full-length college football games on its service…it plans to carry as many as 25 games a month in the 2006 season. That’s what this WaPo story says, but no more details. This is…

Bear my hyperbole during this post, but that’s the treatment it needs: I think this is preposterous…even though ESPN’s mobile service MobileESPN has not done that well since it launched officially during Superbowl (and we’ve been the first to report and criticize it), to say that 6-8 months is enough…

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 Mobile are having, something we’ve documented in detail on this site. Mobile ESPN: The company now has gone back to the drawing board after a botched entry…