Streaming News
Big East announces three-year rights extension with FloSports
"FloSports has been a fantastic platform to showcase our women’s basketball and Olympic Sports programs, as well as the original content our outstanding in-house digital team creates throughout the year."
ESPN+ subscriptions tick up to 22.8 million
Subscriptions are slowing, but still increasing.
NFL launches NFL+, announces pricing and features, including local/primetime streaming to phones and tablets
NFL+ will cost $4.99 a month for the basic version, or $9.99 a month for the premium version.
In Paramount+ soccer documentary ‘The Only,’ Briana Scurry gets her due
Viewers may get a greater appreciation for the Hall of Fame goalie.
FloSports signs “largest NCAA Division II media rights agreement to date” with South Atlantic Conference, covering all games and championships
"The South Atlantic Conference significantly bolsters our collegiate programming. We’re committed to providing SAC member schools and athletes with a robust digital platform to connect with their communities and fans."
Monthly price of ESPN+ jumping to $9.99 in August
This is a tough sell, to be honest, even if there's an obvious motivation.
Roger Goodell: Sunday Ticket’s streaming destination will be announced this fall
Apple, Disney, and Amazon are the bidders here, and the winner will be announced in just a few months.
Which smaller sports streamers could be swallowed up by larger ones?
When will we start to see consolidation in the streaming landscape?
Sinclair’s Bally Sports+ OTT service will soft launch Thursday, CEO Chris Ripley says they’ll have linear/DTC hybrid “for years to come”
"You can’t just be solely reliant on a direct-to-consumer product. That would be a really problematic situation for everybody in the ecosystem, if that’s all you had."
Bill Simmons looks back at his HBO show “Any Given Wednesday”: “Podcasts have replaced shows like that.”
"The 40 raw minutes were better than the 12 edited minutes. So stuff like that made me think, “What is the upside at this point of a TV interview show versus a podcast?"
MLB.TV keeps doing announcers dirty with hot mics and bad camera shots
"You can be that way, I don’t give a shit. Go ahead. Now I know where I’m at with you."
MLS signs 10-year, $2.5-billion-plus global deal with Apple for all MLS matches, with some available in base AppleTV app and some requiring a...
This is the biggest league shift to an all-streaming deal we've seen so far.
Anonymous Disney exec cites The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers and Big Shot renewals as questionable Peter Rice decisions
"A senior Disney official cited Mr. Rice’s decision to renew two struggling shows on the Disney+ streaming service—“The Mighty Ducks” and “Big Shot”—as examples of questionable deal-making. Both shows cost more than $50 million and neither had shown the type of success that merited additional seasons."
