Tag Archives: sports

Amazon Signs Night Rights for Roland-Garros (Digital TV Europe)

Amazon has continued its reach into the European sports broadcast market with the acquisition of rights to Roland-Garros. Amazon is currently the exclusive rightsholder for the US ... More

Report: AI the Holy Grail for Enhanced Sports Viewing (TVB Europe)

A new report from NTT has found that sports organisations need to invest in artificial intelligence in order to create the best viewing experience for fans. The company surveyed 3,... More

NAGRA Report: Sports OTT Ramps Up

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, in partnership with MTM, a leading international research and s... More

Untapping the Opportunity in Sports OTT (Light Reading)

The media and entertainment space is evolving, with sports being a high-growth area that can provide immense opportunity for those that have a smart strategy and execution plan in ... More

Ex-Disney CEO Eisner Sees Big-League Sports Fleeing Broadcast TV (Bloomberg)

Longtime Walt Disney Co. chief Michael Eisner has a prediction: Major sports properties like the NFL and NBA will eventually leave broadcast television. That means waving goodbye t... More

Sports Operators to Spend $6.8B on OTT Tech (Rapid TV News)

New research has found that as demand for content increasingly extends beyond the living room, the freemium model will become more prevalent, sports OTT spend will hit a tipping po... More

Sports Leagues Must Act Now to Tackle Piracy (Videonet)

Simon Trudelle, NAGRA: With the 2018-19 football season well underway, live-streaming sports piracy continues to cause significant business challenges for the Pay TV industry. And ... More

Turner, Caesars Partner for OTT Sports-Betting Content (SportsPro)

Turner Sports has penned an agreement with casino operator Caesars Entertainment to develop sports-betting content and open a Bleacher Report studio inside one of Caesars’ Las Ve... More

Sports Service DAZN Lets You Stream Four Games at Once (Engadget)

Sports streaming platform DAZN offers a wide variety of live and on-demand matches across several sports. To help you catch as much of the action as possible, it's adding a multivi... More

MLB Eyes Giving Teams Streaming Rights Challenging Pay-TV Model (NY Post)

Baseball may be big on tradition — but that could change. Major League Baseball is discovering the upside of streaming and moving away from a pay-TV-focused model, according to s... More

As OTT Gains Ground in Live Sports, Traditional Broadcasters May Be Left Behind (ReadWrite)

As traditional broadcasting channels lose ground to emerging competitors, all signs point to over the top services as the future of streaming television. The $46.5 billion in reven... More

Amazon Bid for Fox Networks May Escalate Sports Rights Arms Race (THR)

Murdoch's 22 regional stations, valued at $25 billion, draw interest from Amazon, MLB, the Yankees and others as streaming deals heat up.... More

Tennis Tech: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Biggest Tennis Tournament (Forbes)

For the past few years, Wimbledon has worked with IBM to take advantage of its artificial intelligence platform - Watson - and bring some pretty impressive tech onboard. For instan... More

Tiger Woods Signs Deal With Golf Streaming Service (WSJ)

Tiger Woods has signed an exclusive deal to develop programming for the forthcoming golf streaming service Discovery and the PGA Tour are launching, a bet the sports legend will lu... More

DAZN Aims to Introduce Ad Model Without All the Repetition (WSJ)

DAZN, the ad-free sports-streaming service led by former ESPN President John Skipper, aims to score digital rights to major U.S. sports in the coming years and to introduce ad mode... More

Sports Channels Draw Interest From Private Equity, ‘New Fox,’ Ice Cube (WSJ)

Big media companies, sports teams, private-equity firms and a rapper are among those kicking the tires of nearly two dozen regional sports channels that Walt Disney is divesting as... More

English Football Dodges an OTT Bullet From La Liga, But Just for Now (MediaPost)

English football just dodged a bullet -- and I'm not talking about the uproar that would have occurred if Wembley Stadium had been sold off. No, we're on Eleven Sports here. It's t... More

What Does the Future Hold for OTT Live Sports Streaming? (NAGRA Blog)

OTT streaming infrastructures have drastically democratised how consumers access live sports content. And this is driving a rapid evolution in consumption habits and expectations. ... More

The Future of How We Watch Sports is in Limbo – Until 2021 (Quartz)

People aren’t ready to abandon watching sports on TV, yet. Internet streaming-video services for live sports are biding time, buying up the rights to sports like cricket, boxing,... More

Future of Spectator Sports: In the Age of the Photo-Finish, Data is Key (Verdict)

Spectators, organisers and referees rely on data to make sporting experience the best it can be, and with technology advancing, the future of spectator sports looks bright. The int... More