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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‘Way harder, intense look’ at Mobile Sports Production Underway at Turner Sports, exec says
There’s a large enough audience for mobile sports to spark Turner Sports to take a “way harder, more intense” look at mobile sports production, according to a recently posted Beet.TV video. According to Michael Adamson, VP of Sports New Products, Turner Sports, the proof is the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament, which saw a 17 percent increase in online sports video consumption Read More>>
UFC Escapes Octagon with Bold Twitter Strategies
Credit Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) for breaking new ground in mobile sports broadcasting. The professional mixed martial arts circuit was a disappointment to pay-per-view audiences of the main card fights during its UFC 130 Championship event held Saturday, but innovative use of Twitter for two preliminary fights broadcast live on Spike TV and the remainder of the preliminary Read More>>
Mobile Sports Viewers Winners in AT&T ‘Sideloading’ Move
AT&T finally backed down, and not a moment too soon (for its own sake). The wireless giant said today it will allow AT&T smartphone customers with Android mobile devices access to sports and other applications through the Internet and well-stocked but unsanctioned app stores. Before today's move, AT&T had a long-standing policy to prohibit applications unless they were downloaded Read More>>
The Posada Affair: Wife’s Tweets To Make Baseball History?
Veteran New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada's decision to sit out the Saturday May 14 game against the Boston Red Sox sparked an after-game press conference, and the faithful at New Yankee Stadium toting mobile devices already had the means to know a much larger story was unfolding. Calling the game to a nationwide television audience, Fox Network broadcasters dubbed The Posada Affair an Read More>>
Score Media Beefs Up to Battle ESPN, Yahoo
Canadian Benjie Levy is committed to giving mobile sports consumers in North America choice. Chief operating officer and executive vice president of Score Media, Levy was the driver behind his company's May 12 deal to acquire SportsTap. The SportsTap acquisition means Score Media has the third largest U.S. audience of sports consumers on smartphone sports applications, trailing only Goliaths Read More>>
Review: ESPN Enhances ESPN Radio App
I do not know why, but it had never occurred to me to load a sports radio program into my iPhone. Now I actually have several radio apps, all part of my iTunes package, but I do not listen to them as I have so much music also loaded on the phone. I guess sports radio to me is something I listen to my car or at my desk, since both environments that are better suited for different broadcast Read More>>
NFL Seeks More Dollars for Mobile Access
There's a big battle brewing in the professional football world but it has nothing to do with players and owners. Instead, it's all about figuring out who pays how much to let mobile consumers watch football games on their new powerful portable devices, like the iPad or Android-based tablets. A report today in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) says the NFL and its NFL Network is Read More>>
NBA Pushes to Become Pro Sports Online/Smart Phone Kingpin
Online and mobile programming is packing the wallop of a Blake Griffin monster jam for the National Basketball Association (NBA), as traffic surged 69 percent during the first week of the 2011 NBA Playoffs, according to a report in the trade publication broadcastingcable.com. The spike in professional hoops traffic includes more than 7 million users visiting the standard NBA.com online portal, Read More>>
