FLAGSHIP SERIES: STADIUM TECH REPORTS
Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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ESPN Practices Less Than Aboveboard Journalism? Say it Ain’t So!
Awful Announcing last week was the latest to take ESPN to task for its well known practice of piggybacking on someone else’s’ news stories and either portraying them as being broken by the WWL or as revealed by “anonymous sources.” It is becoming an increasingly common complaint among non-ESPN sports reporters that after they break a story ESPN will run with a similar story and attribute it to Read More>>
Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: Barnes & Noble Enhances Nook Color
OnLine’s new apps mean Tablets can be gaming consoles Cloud gaming developer OnLive has developed a set of apps that bring console gaming to tablet and mobile (i.e smartphones) platforms. The company said that this will open up top ranked, high performance games that were once only available on consoles to a market that is at least 500 million strong. The Universal OnLive Wireless Controller Read More>>
Frookie Speaks Out: NBA Should Sell Hornets to Telco Consortium
The solution to the National Basketball Association's most pressing problems, its ownership of the New Orleans Hornets and the disparity of balance among small market and large market teams, is in the palm of David Stern's hand. When he's holding a smartphone or iPhone. Today the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors were sold for $1.3 billion, and 37.5 percent went to rival Canadian Read More>>
Canadian Phone Companies Buy Maple Leafs — In Search of Mobile Content?
Reading through the BusinessWeek account of the purchase of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs by two of Canada's big phone companies I was struck by a quote that seems to signal that part of the motivation behind the purchase was to secure exclusive content for the carriers' mobile-phone customers. Here's a couple nut grafs from the story which spell this strategy out: The acquisition fits with Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: New Windy City Sports Blog This Spring
New Chicago focused Web site launches with solid cast While the review might be a bit over the top, Robert Feder in his column points out a new entrant to the world of sports blogging, and one focused on Chicago that will go by the name of ChicagoSide that is slated to officially launch on baseball opening day in 2012. Author and columnist Jonathan Eig is helping lead the charge. If you are Read More>>
ESPN’s NFL32 Turns to Social Media for Topics With ‘Facebook Faceoff’
ESPN will enable Fans to determine some discussion topics ESPN, Looking to increase the level of interactivity with its and the NFL’s fans, has developed a segment in one of its new NFL programs, NFL32, that will allow fans to submit questions via Facebook -- questions that will hopefully help the ESPN show create feisty debate in a segment called Facebook Faceoff. NFL32 is designed to be a Read More>>
Jerry Rice and Warren Sapp, Special Trending Units
Since I was away from the Internet most of the day Wednesday I was surprised as lots of people who saw Jerry Rice and Warren Sapp trending on Twitter, for no apparent reason. Maybe it serves us right to be so uninformed, or maybe we're just not following the right news breakers. Anyway, I was not alone in my confusion. Apparently there are plenty of folks out there now who look to see what's Read More>>
ESPN SportsCenter’s TebowTime programming goes No. 1 on Twitter
ESPN on Wednesday dedicated a full hour of SportsCenter to talk about Denver Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow, and the programming caused #SCTebow to achieve the No. 1 trend ranking on Twitter. TebowTime was the most successful effort to date by SportsCenter to tailor content to sports social media interaction, and could prove a template ESPN uses in the future to boost ratings during off-peak Read More>>
