Awful Announcing
The CAA is heading to FloSports, with over 300 events (including around 50 football games and 140 men's and women's basketball games) expecting to air there this year.
While the Game of Thrones premiere didn't pass big NFL games or many Winter Olympics nights, it did come awfully close to MLB and NBA final-game ratings in 2018, and beat the Kentucky Derby, the Masters and more.
This deal likely wouldn't have worked for both sides without ESPN+. Gaining Big 12 streaming content for that service allowed ESPN to pay more for these championship games than they would have otherwise.
While Huskies' officials are complaining that the new deal may see more of their games on streaming, that's not necessarily going to be the case.
Those surveyed by Deloitte averaged three streaming service subscriptions, but many weren't thrilled with the numbers of services they had to subscribe to get what they want. That's worth noting for sports, considering the fragmentation in the sports streaming landscape.
DirecTV wants customers to start buying its services online rather than buying the satellite dishes
Large numbers of younger respondents to this survey plan to stream the Super Bowl.
D.C. United joins two other MLS teams in streaming its games exclusively online.
The big question is what will it include?
You could spend as much as $200/month on streaming services to get everything you want, which really makes that cable package look appealing.
DirecTV’s last satellite was launched last month and older satellites won’t be replaced
The NASCAR media rights for the top three national circuits are locked up through 2024, but they might launch a OTT service anyway.
"Just as we will disrupt the way that we acquire the ability to watch sports through an app, we will disrupt the way that advertising works. We really will follow the Facebook/Google model — we will understand things about you that will allow us to target ads."
The new streaming service will reportedly launch next year with original content. Could sports be close behind?
Outages like YouTube TV's last night cannot happen with any regularity, but here we are.
