LIV Golf teams with ReachTV for live Friday coverage and highlights on screens in airports and hotels
There's now a new way for travelers to watch LIV Golf's Friday action.
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Sports media luminaries hang out as Threads opens for business
Some of sports media's biggest names and most recognizable faces are already hanging out over at the newest social media haven: Threads.
Sports streaming app Buzzer is shutting down
Buzzer attempted to sell small parts of games to fans before transitioning into a tech provider.
Apple hopes that for $3,500, you will want to watch games virtually courtside or from the dugout
ESPN expected to launch full direct-to-consumer offering in 2025 or 2026
Consumers could perhaps buy access to ESPN's main linear feed over the top as early as 2025.
Mark Cuban blasts Elon Musk’s Twitter decisions: ‘He isn’t pushing free speech.’
"It's disingenuous to say Twitter is the home of free speech when he chooses to often put his thumb on the scale of reach."
DraftKings Network FAST channel launches with Dan Le Batard and more, announces two new Meadowlark shows
“In bringing together some of the most authentic sports and entertainment voices under one umbrella, DraftKings Network is the destination for ‘In on the Action’ sports fans and content they love.”
NHL digital ad technology continues to show its issues
This was a prominent spot for this technology to glitch, but it's far from the only glitch or wider issue it's had this season.
Top Twitter sports executive TJ Adeshola leaves after 10 years, adding to questions on their sports future
Adeshola made deals that saw Twitter involved with countless sports leagues and broadcasters, for everything from live games to highlights to specific shows.
Deion Sanders’ Colorado partners with Tempus Ex
“We’re excited to start this new era of Colorado football by investing in the best technology available for Coach Prime and his staff, student-athletes and our fans.”
Charlie Ebersol on Tempus Ex Machina-Chelsea partnership: ‘Our technology ultimately is infrastructure.’
IBM teams with the Masters for ‘generative AI commentary,’ says AI will provide ‘detailed golf narration’ for clips
A partnership between IBM and the Masters looks to create AI commentary for more than 20,000 clips from this year's tournament, which will be viewable on the Masters' app and its associated digital platforms.
MLBN and Apple TV+ national broadcasts to show Zoom Replay Operations Center live under new deal
A new partnership with Zoom will show the Zoom Replay Operations Center live on MLB Network and Apple TV+ national broadcasts.
Super Bowl streaming lag was worst in five years on average, as per Phenix data
The six streaming platforms streaming firm Phenix tracked this year averaged 56.9 seconds of lag, up from last year's average of 54.3 and a far cry from 2019's 37.7.
Tempus Ex Machina partners with Slate content creation/asset distribution platform
"Being able to provide access to our technology is paramount to what we’re building."
MLS and Apple announce 31 more on-air personalities, including Cobi Jones
We now know more of the figures who will be calling Apple's MLS coverage.
AWS teams up with MLSE for SportsX innovation program, building on augmented reality pilots
Two of the pilot projects that led to this deepened MLSE-AWS partnership involved augmented reality approaches for fans.
Curastory CEO Tiffany Kelly talks athlete commentary partnership with Pac-12 and Tempus Ex
"Audiences just love mic’d up content. They just love when the athletes are their own commentators."
TSN’s camouflaged on-ice camera at World Juniors owes a debt to Wayne Gretzky
"He said how much he loved the camera — he thought it was great — but the camera needed to be covered in white."
Flying camera hit South African cricketer mid-match
A Fox Cricket camera collided with South African bowler Anrich Nortje during Monday's match.
Atmosphere COO Blake Sabatinelli talks PGA Tour partnership, business-focused streaming TV
"Having PGA Tour highlights on Atmosphere Sports allows us to meet fan demand and to provide more long drives, incredible chips, and mind-blowing putts, supplementing our already popular sports coverage."
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.
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."
