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Verizon again offering free NFL Sunday Ticket to customers
"Free NFL Sunday Ticket" always piques our interest.
Some clarity emerges on Disney’s ESPN strategic partner and DTC plans
Verizon offers customers 40 percent off NFL+ Premium, notable given rights history
Verizon reportedly talking to Disney about potential ESPN partnership
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg has "made no secret of his openness to such an arrangement."
Tech companies also rumored as possible ESPN strategic partners
Add a litany of tech companies to the list of possible “strategic partners” for ESPN. Per the New...
Verizon customers can get NFL Sunday Ticket for free this year
Anyone interested in NFL Sunday Ticket might be interested in this.
Verizon is out of the media business, selling Yahoo and AOL to Apollo Global Management
How Yahoo's sale will affect its sports properties is yet to be determined.
Verizon is exploring a sale of Verizon Media, including Yahoo and AOL, for around half of what it paid for those two companies
It looks like Verizon may sell Yahoo and AOL for far less than it paid for them.
Univision and Verizon partner for TUDNVision 5G 360-degree viewing app and enhanced AR analytics for Liga MX matches
Selected Liga MX matches will now come with 360-degree viewing options.
Verizon the latest provider to offer customers an RSN credit due to lost sports
Verizon will offer customers a refund of their RSN credit due to lost games this year.
Yahoo extends NFL streaming into the Yahoo Fantasy Football app
Fans can now watch NFL games inside the Yahoo Fantasy app as well as the Yahoo Sports app.
Verizon partners with Google to resell YouTube TV to its customers
YouTube TV will not be exclusive to Verizon customers.
Verizon and Disney strike carriage agreement, keeping ESPN and ABC stations on Fios, but there’s a Cox-Nexstar blackout looming (UPDATED)
While the Verizon-Disney dispute has been resolved, the Cox-Nexstar one is still ongoing, and has a midnight deadline.
beIN Sports has been pulled off Comcast, and it might be pulled off Verizon too
The dispute comes less than two weeks ahead of the start of the La Liga season.
Verizon shutting down its go90 streaming service, will focus mobile streaming efforts on live sports
Verizon's go90 is less than three years old, but it could never build an audience wide enough to attract sustainable advertising.
Twitter, Amazon, YouTube, and Verizon are bidding for Thursday Night Football streaming rights, multiyear deal expected
Four companies are still reportedly in the hunt for TNF streaming rights, which could give the NFL a big payday. But there are questions about just how interested Amazon is in retaining those rights.
Verizon streamed Super Bowl LII in virtual reality on a 5G connection, but only a few people saw it
Only about 20 people got to watch, and had to take turns doing so.
Verizon brings NBA League Pass out-of-market package to Yahoo and other platforms
The deal expands Yahoo’s portfolio of live sports.
Yahoo will stream NFL playoffs and Super Bowl to mobile users on all networks as part of new Verizon deal
Under the new deal, people with phones on other carriers can also access Verizon's NFL streams.
The year in sports media: 2017 was a big year for streaming and tech
There were a lot of streaming deals involving live sports in 2017.
The NFL’s new deal with Verizon is worth nearly $500 million per year, opens mobile streaming up to all carriers
Non-Verizon subscribers will have access to NFL games on their mobiles starting in January.
Verizon and NFL reportedly close to new digital streaming deal
Verizon customers will be able to watch NFL games on connected TVs and tablets, in addition to phones.
Like Disney, Comcast reportedly wants to buy 21st Century Fox’s non-news and sports properties
Talks are ongoing between Comcast and 21st Century Fox about a sale of Fox assets outside the U.S. news and sports realms.
Verizon’s online stream of Baltimore-Jacksonville led to complaints
So about that NFL stream....
