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.”
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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."
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."
