YouTube’s addition of over 100 premium original channels is well underway. The latest group of channels to join comes from the action sports vertical, which will finally give skateboarding, surfing and other extreme sports fans a place to catch up on moves in the industry. Read more »
TV and online exec Russell Stopford is the new head of digital for one of the world’s richest soccer clubs, Manchester City. Read more at paidContent »
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire… Read more at paidContent »
Super Stickman Golf is a sports game that plays more like a platformer. Scoring is the same as in golf, but each golf course is designed more like a level from a Mario game than something you’d see on the PGA tour. Read more »
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010… Read more at paidContent »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more at paidContent »
News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost ce… Read more at paidContent »
Apple might be looking to expand its live sports offerings through a deal with the English Premier League, a new report says. It’s an interesting proposition but not a cheap one: Sky paid £1.6 billion (around $2.5 billion) for its current broadcast rights. Read more »
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, an… Read more at paidContent »
The NFL and NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) garnered a lot of attention yesterday with news that the Super Bowl (along with the Pro Bowl and two Wild Card… Read more at paidContent »
Digital sports rights company Perform has bought out two online sports firms in deals worth almost £10 ($15.55)m. Read more at paidContent »
Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations… Read more at paidContent »
Illustrating how rival platforms are keen to attract quality apps from iOS to their stores, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are… Read more at paidContent »
When baseball great Albert Pujols signed a staggering 10-year, $254 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last week, he became… Read more at paidContent »
The BBC is permitting use of its iPlayer mobile apps over 3G mobile networks, ahead of its big 2012 Olympic Games mobile push. Read more at paidContent »
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport i… Read more at paidContent »
USA Today is continuing to try to build up its digital side, as the print business struggles on, with another purchase designed to appeal to… Read more at paidContent »
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) pulled in a pretty solid fiscal 2011 and FY Q4, but a number of challenges have emerged that could threaten… Read more at paidContent »
When it comes to marketing, some things are obvious: Twitter is important. Facebook is more important (at least so far). Holding onto those… Read more at paidContent »
When it comes to live TV, sports still rule. That’s especially true for football as we take a look at DirecTV’s third-quarter earnings release. Thanks to an NFL Sunday Ticket promotion, DirecTV added 327,000 subscribers, even as competitors struggled to retain existing customers. Read more »
– *ESPN* Deportes: Freddy Rolón has been promoted to VP of ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Deportes Programming and Business Initiatives. He’ll lead the… Read more at paidContent »
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more at paidContent »
UK football fans will potentially be able to watch cut-price Premier League matches, after the European Union’s highest court ruled on Tuesd… Read more at paidContent »
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that w… Read more at paidContent »
Most of us have done some online shopping while watching a game. But what about watching online sports while shopping? A food market chain in London is testing out that concept by combining a shopping cart, an iPad and a streaming sports app. Read more »
One of the most unusual efforts to make money from a newspaper web site launches today in Boston, slightly less than a year after plans were… Read more at paidContent »
A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupe… Read more at paidContent »
ITV’s Rugby World Cup strategy for mobile was tackled in to touch Friday morning when its dedicated mobile app failed to materialise and its… Read more at paidContent »
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more at paidContent »
UK tournament rightsholder ITV (LSE: ITV) will try to reach rugby fans at the office and on mobile because this year’s Rugby World Cup in Ne… Read more at paidContent »
The world’s wealthiest soccer club will deploy RFID chips, augmented reality season tickets, online data toys, connected TV channels, Foursq… Read more at paidContent »
Online sports broadcaster Perform Group swung to a loss in its first year on the stock market after it spent out on more sports rights and a… Read more at paidContent »
Tremor Media executive chairman Jason Glickman is working on a new company called Connected Sports Ventures. While still in stealth, the startup looks poised to change the way people watch sports by connecting their social activity on second-screen devices with what’s happening on the big screen. Read more »
Tiger Woods is back! Well, back at the Atlanta Golf Club anyway, where he’ll participate in this week’s 93rd PGA Championship. The tournament will be broadcast live online with multiple streams, a 360-degree-camera and a nifty feature that will allow fans to share clips on Facebook. Read more »
YouTube is making its first foray into subscriptions for live streaming content with a cooperation with Willow.tv, bringing live coverage of the India tour of England to Willow.tv’s YouTube channel. This follows a first live pay-per-view event on YouTube, which aired at the end of May. Read more »
