Soccer’s Premier League Gets ESPN Mobile Apps, U.S. Web Streams
With the world’s richest soccer league, England’s Premier League, kicking off this weekend, mobile and online are set to play a bigger part…
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New ESPN-ACC 12-Year Deal Includes ESPN3 Simulcasts, Live Games On Mobile
How does ESPN (NYSE: DIS) keep its growing empire fed? With deals like the exclusive 12-year pact with the ACC announced today. In exchange…
ESPN Upfront: Free ESPN Local, Geo Apps, Social Games Deal With Playdom
ESPN (NYSE: DIS), which has already notched more than six million downloads for its free ScoreCenter app, continues to expand its digital pr…
ESPN Mobile Thrives Despite No Ties To Ad Networks Or Android
ESPN’s mobile efforts had a stand-out year in 2009. Its ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ScoreCenter was downloaded more than 4.5 million times and was rank…
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ESPN Mobile’s 2009 Performance By The Numbers
It’s been just over three years since *ESPN* officially pulled the plug on Mobile ESPN (NYSE: DIS), its MVNO (service shut down on Dec 31, 2…
How One Company Survived the MVNO Implosion
Remember Visage Mobile? The San Francisco-based company was one of the unlucky few that got caught up in the MVNO heyday. Founded in 2001, V…
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Industry Moves: envIO Appoints Manish Jha CEO
Mobile social network platform provider envIO networks has appointed former Vantrix head Manish Jha as president and CEO of the company. He…
Visits From Mobile Phone Users Outpace PC Users At ESPN.com
Is ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) new mobile strategy paying off? For three days, ESPN.com has had more visits to its NFL content through its mobile pho…
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CTIA Audio Interview: John Zehr, SVP-Digital Media Production, ESPN
I caught up for a few minutes at CTIA with John Zehr, the ESPN SVP of digital media production. We talked about ESPN’s multi-year exclusive…
ESPN PodCenter Through IPhone — Exclusive Content Planned
ESPN has announced that its PodCenter service will be available on the iPhone from now, and “exclusive content for iPhone users is also in t…
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ESPN To Employees: You Can’t Get Verizon Phones
This is very funny, and true. ESPN, which closed down its MVNO and then relaunched again recently as a content app on Verizon and branded ES…
Big Plans For ESPN On Mobile
The New York Times has a comprehensive piece on mobile video/TV, although most of the info comes from ESPN (it also talks about CBS, Hearst,…
ESPN MVP Launches App on Verizon Wireless; Mirroring The MobileESPN Apps
This was announced in February, and is launching now: Verizon Wireless is launching ESPN MVP on its service, in a multi-year exclusive deal.…
Mobile ESPN Plans News In Tamil And Bengali; Content Providers Beefing Up Operations
Sricharan Iyengar, VP (Sales and Marketing) for ESPN has told the Hindu that ESPN is working on offering sports news in Tamil and Bengali, a…
CTIA: ESPN Mobile TV Lineup, Two Made-For-Mobile Shows
ESPN has announced the line-up for its new channel, ESPN Mobile TV, which will show on MediaFLO’s service, currently on Verizon’s V cast ser…
Interview: Salil Mehta, EVP, ESPN Enterprises
It’s a cliche, to be sure, but looking at Mobile ESPN, it’s hard not to think what a difference a year makes. This time last year, Mobile ES…
MobileESPN To Relaunch As a Content App Exclusively With Verizon; Dumps Sprint; MediaFlo Channel Too
The day it was announced that former head honcho Manish Jha left to join Vantrix as CEO, comes the news, via AP, that MobileESPN is relaunch…
Manish Jha Leaves ESPN Mobile; Joins Vantrix As CEO
Manish Jha, the high-profile head of the MobileESPN MVNO forays from Disney, as well as later the SVP of ESPN Mobile (the publishing arm) af…
ESPN’s Mobile Licensing Deals Soon
ESPN, still reeling from the announced closure of MobileESPN MVNO, is close to announcing some distribution/licensing deals on its content a…
The Mobile ESPN Patent
MacNN is reporting that Disney has filed a patent covering the delivery of ESPN content to mobile phones and devices, which he uses to argue…
Did Wall Street Kill Mobile ESPN?
This article puts forth the opinion that it was Wall Street’s short term focus on quarterly revenue that drove Disney to kill Mobile ESPN sh…
MVNOs Need To Play The Game Within Its Current Boundaries
Chris Ambrosio, director of Wireless Device Strategies Service at Strategy Analytics has used the collapse of Mobile ESPN to illustrate what…
Mipcom: ESPN Digital Doing Well – Just Skip The Sections About Profit, Pesky MVNO
ESPN is “very bullish” about its new media operations, said ESPN president George Bodenheimer, despite refusing to admit that ESPN’s new med…
MVNOs Stay Optimistic
The discussion over whether MVNOs are a viable business model continues, with this article citing most MVNOs as still being upbeat about the…
Adderton: “The Industry Is Not Broken”
Unsurprisingly Peter Adderton, CEO of Amp’d Mobile, is still upbeat about the potential of MVNOs, and Amp’d. He said Mobile ESPN was just Di…
Manish Jha On The New Mobile ESPN
Manish Jha, Mobile ESPN SVP and GM, has given an interview on the closure of the ESPN MVNO, and said a lot of things that other people have…
Industry Moves: MobileESPN VP Lands At Soapbox Mobile As CEO
You will probably see a lot of this happening over the next couple of months: MobileESPN executives landing at other mobile companies, as th…
Disney Will Spend $30 Million To Shut Down Mobile ESPN
This articles starts: “The Walt Disney Co. will spend about $30 million to shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone services, but remain…
Mobile ESPN: The Schadenfreude
Now that Mobile ESPN is closing, as reported first, everybody’s piling on with all kinds of “we told you so”, and none of them are far off t…
Major Change Coming At Mobile ESPN; Winding Down Likely, Possibly Being Sold
UPDATE: the company officially announced closure… more details in the follow-up post, here.
Exclusive: [by Rafat Ali & Staci Kramer] We ha…
Mobile ESPN’s History And MVNO Skepticism, In Links
— Walt Disney Q3 Earnings: ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment
— Some More MVNO Math
— MobileESPN MVNO Revenue…
More on Mobile ESPN’s Game Streaming
We mentioned Mobile ESPN’s new plans to stream full-length college football games last night…more details now: it will kick off with Flori…
Mobile ESPN To Stream Full-Length College Football Games
Mobile ESPN, the MVNO from Disney, is upping the stakes after a lackluster launch: it will broadcast full-length college football games on i…
Walt Disney Q3 Earnings — ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment
Walt Disney has done its 2006 Q3 earnings call…the financial highlights are in this Reuters piece. Of relevance to mobile is that Disney s…
MobileESPN MVNO Revenue Modeling Estimates
I’ll get in trouble for posting this, but what the heck…if they ask to take it down, I will.
Anyway, following on the Merrill Lynch resear…
Merrill Lynch Analyst: Time to Pull Plug on MobileESPN MVNO
Bear my hyperbole during this post, but that’s the treatment it needs: I think this is preposterous…even though ESPN’s mobile service Mobi…
Industry Moves: MobileESPN Appoints New VP, Marketing
Christopher Brush has joined ESPN as VP of marketing for its MVNO MobileESPN. In his new role, Brush will focus on the marketing and adverti…
ESPN Launches Samsung Ace
Mobile ESPN has launched a new handset from Samsung, dubbed Ace. The handset has “a large QVGA display and stereo speakers…The user interf…
U.S. MVNOs Having Teething Troubles; MobileESPN Back on Drawing Board
So discover WSJ, or they could have just read us…a front page story about the teething troubles U.S. MVNOs like MobileESPN and Amp’d Mobil…
MobileESPN’s Retail Distribution: Now in Sprint Stores
Besides BestBuy, the MobileESPN MVNO service from ESPN, which had an initial exclusive deal with BestBuy, is now being retailed in about 575…
Iger: ESPN MVNO Initial Results “Lower Than Hoped”
Queried about Disney’s MVNO strategy during this afternoon’s Q2 earnings call, Disney president and CEO Bob Iger admitted that initial resul…
@ CTIA: Mobile ESPN Expands Retail Outlets To Sprint Stores
Better late than never … no understatement to say Mobile ESPN has yet to take off and one of the reasons — among many, including the high…
Hollywood Sees Not Just Money In Mobile, But Also Ways To Increase Loyalty
Hollywood Reporter: A good round-up story on what hollywood studios, TV networks and other entertainment companies are doing for the handhel…
ESPN Unveils Plans For MLB 2006
Mobile ESPN is touting its content line up for the forthcoming basketball season…it includes: “Comprehensive scoreboards with game status…
Mobile ESPN Goes International
ESPN is expanding its business internationally, targeting Canada, Europe and Latin America. “Mobile ESPN Publishing Worldwide distributes ES…
Mobile ESPN Phones on Sale At Disney Shareholders Meeting
Big Pimpin’, they call it…at the Disney shareholders meeting today at the Arrowhead Pond near Disneyland, Disney-owned Mobile ESPN phone s…
The MVNO Battle
This year will see how successful the much touted MVNOs in the US will be…
“The companies say that as the big national cell phone carriers…
