March Madness is a go! Once again, games will be streamed online, but this time around, you will have to pay $3.99 to watch – unless you are a Comcast cable TV customer, in which case live streaming is still free. Confused? Check our explanation for … Read More »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Cycling fans have some exciting weeks ahead of them, with the Tour de France starting this weekend. Most of the races will happen during work hours in the U.S., but NBC is selling an all-access pass to watch the entire tour online and on your iPad. Read More »
Want to watch Wimbledon or the Women’s World Cup online? Well, looks like you’re out of luck: ESPN3, which has the exclusive online rights for both competitions, has been suffering an outage this morning. There’s no word yet on when the site will return online. Read More »
The Spanish company behind Rojadirecta.org has sued the U.S. government, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for seizing the domains of its website. Rojadirecta was used to trade links to live sporting events, but its former owners say the sites were legal. Read More »
Roku is boosting the amount of sports content it carries through a multiyear deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that adds live pay-per-view events and archived matches to its broadband set-top box. It’s the third major sports deal for the set-top box maker. Read More »
Cord-cutting sports fans that get their soccer fix through Chinese P2P apps are the new pet peeve of the U.S. Trade Representative, whose office publishes an annual report about countries with lax copyright enforcement called the Special 301 Report. This year’s edition, which … Read More »
Boxee scored its second major sports league partnership today, bringing hockey fans live NHL games through an officially sanctioned NHL GameCenter Live app — provided they’re willing to pay $19.95 per month or $79 per year, that is. The … Read More »
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