The Athletic doubling women’s sports coverage through partnership with Google
Google is helping to fund a major expansion of women's sports coverage at The Athletic, an interesting bet.
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Roku launches centralized Sports experience on their TVs and connected devices, with Fox, TNT, Fubo, many streamers on board
"Watching your favorite teams should be simple, so we’ve made it a priority to build out a more seamless and streamlined way to discover and watch sports on our platform."
PFL launches FAST channel for weigh-ins, press conferences, highlights and more
“We are excited to launch the Professional Fighters League's first-ever FAST channel in the U.S. providing our young and passionate MMA fanbase with year-round access to PFL star talent, original content and fight library.”
Qatar requiring World Cup visitors to download apps researchers consider spyware
"It's not my job to give travel advice, but personally I would never bring my mobile phone on a visit to Qatar."
If complaining is ‘disruptive,’ then sure, Draymond Green is disrupting sports media
Green sounds like so many other powerful people who don't like to be criticized.
Clippers’ streaming play ‘ClipperVision’ combines RSN feed, alternate broadcast with former stars, Spanish and Korean feeds
“Starting in the year 2022, would somebody really say, ‘Hey, I want to do a new cable channel’? No. They’d say, ‘I want to do a new streaming service.’”
VS CEO Eric Frye talks soccer launch: “There could be a very unique fan experience around our conversational AI.”
"You think about Kelley O'Hara and what she brings to the table: she's so passionate, and that's what stands out about her, the passion to teach. And you think about a figure like Tim Howard that's accomplished a tremendous amount, he really brought a lot of leadership to the table."
Amazon confident Prime Video can handle Thursday Night Football traffic: ‘I don’t think there’s any company more prepared.’
“I don’t think there’s any company more prepared than we are to handle that type of scale and that type of challenge.”
Twitter edit button tests will include edit history and time lock, will start with Twitter Blue in one country
Edited tweets will come with their own label, and version history will be viewable.
Adam Wainwright talks VS conversational AI-powered sports edtech platform, and the appeal of sharing the baseball knowledge he’s gained
"There's knowledge that we've learned and lessons that need to be learned throughout time, but there's also lots of lessons that we wish we'd learned quicker, that someone would have just told us or showed us the right way to do things."
ESPN has a plan to solve Pac-12 broadcast fuzziness, going to a new vendor with Sony camera control units
"We took a look at this in the offseason and will be using a new vendor this fall."
Bally Sports+ has an official all-markets launch date
"This full introduction marks a key moment in the evolution of RSNs, but it is also a great moment for local fans who now have another viewing option for their favorite teams."
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."
