Posts Tagged ‘ Sports ’

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 Sporting News. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

“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 Mobile conference on Tuesday.

Perez said the NBA is now ready to consolidate its mobile strategy, after initially rolling out a wide array of apps.

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 and mobile viewers during the tournament; ESPN, for instance, live-streamed 54 of the World Cup games on ESPN3.com, while Univision streamed all 64...
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We all have personal soundtracks. Mine started playing Maybe This Time soon after I got off the phone with the top executives responsible for crafting the Turner/SI.com deal between Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings Time Inc. and Turner Broadcasting—and for making it work. Not that Mark Ford, Terry...
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Before everyone had the AOL-Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger to kick around, there was Turner and Time Warner—the combo that was supposed to provide brilliant print, cable and online synergies in entertainment, news and sports. You all remember CNN/SI? Well, maybe not. After all, the plug was pulled on the expensive effort...
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What do Ronaldinho, Didier Drogba, Fabio Cannavaro, Franck Ribery, Landon Donovan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Roger Federer, and Homer Simpson have in common? Yes, they are all stars of Nike's "Write the Future" ad campaign and, with the exception of Homer Simpson, recently defeated athletes. Rumors of a sports curse around the ads are...
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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. Look at these stats…

—BBC.co.uk served a peak of 800,000 concurrent live streams during yesterday’s England-Slovenia match; Wimbledon was also streaming, but the BBC said the “vast majority”...
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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 10 million U.S. web users.

Here are its numbers on a self-selected list of 15 such sites…

London 2012 Olympics organisers aim to make money from their online operations, including capitalising on a domestic commercial straitjacket around the host broadcaster.

“It’s part of my department’s mission to be revenue-generating and deliver positive cashflow,” new media head Alex Balfour told the Social Media Influence conference in London on Tuesday....
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“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 Committee of the Olympic Games said, presenting these stats to the Social Media Influence conference in London on Tuesday…