– Turner Sports New Media Pacts With PGA Tour: The PGA Tour and Turner Sports New Media have agreed to a multi-year online and mobile deal. Turner, which already had a partnership with the PGA will produce and sell PGATour.com, its first interactive sports partnership without on-air rights. Turner also produces NASCAR.com. Release.
— NBC Sports and MediaZone launch sports web TV: Following a recent trial of live broadcasts from Wimbledon, the two companies have announced a joint online sports TV channel to cover everything from surfing to rugby. Most coverage will be for a fee though event-focused ads are also being explored.
— Yahoo, Intel partner on TV sports stats service: Yahoo is moving the other direction with an Intel project; the Yahoo Sports for TV service will pipe sports stats for fantasy team followers to TV screens via Viiv-powers PCs. Initially the service covers football but will expand to basketball, baseball and soccer. But the service only is for users with Viiv-branded PCs designed for digital music and video, which analysts say Intel is having trouble moving. Intel hopes efforts like this will help display the benefits of Viiv.
— Euroleague Basketball site relaunching: Euroleague.net is relaunching following a 66 percent increase in traffic last season. The official Euroleague basketball site will have better navigation, more multimedia, and an expanded results service. The 2 October relaunch coincides with the start of NBA Europe Live.
This article originally appeared in MediaGuardian.
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