The LA Clippers locked in new ties with FOX Sports Prime Ticket in an exclusive multi-year broadcast rights agreement that will see Prime Ticket broadcast all regular season games not selected by a national broadcaster for exclusive telecast, first-round post-season Clippers games, as well as selected pre-season games. All games televised by Prime Ticket will […]
ESL is taking its Brooklyn event where none have gone before, announcing a deal with Sliver.tv and WonderWorld VR to make ESL One New York the first-ever eSports event to be live streamed to fans worldwide in virtual reality using a platform agnostic method as it will be viewable through a website, on a mobile […]
Just six months after launching Yahoo Esports, recent weeks have seen the brand announce new alliances (such as ESL), partnerships with non-endemic brands (General Mills), as well as new series (Late Night League) in its coverage. This week, the division announced a move into collegiate eSports via a new partnership with Riot Games called uLOL […]
Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia yesterday, Les Moonves, chairman and chief executive of CBS Corp., outlined the company’s top drivers as global expansion and digital services including CBS All Access and Showtime Now, noting it was very possible CBS would best its 8 million subscriber target for OTT services by 2020. He also touted the […]
Holding the title of TV’s longest-running children’s animated series, Arthur kicks off season 20 on PBS Kids on October 10, with new episodes that give fans a glimpse into the past, present, and future of the characters. Some anniversary stats: Arthur is currently broadcast in more than 80 countries and draws 7 million viewers per […]
Soon enough, you may be switching over to Netflix on your cable box. According to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, the company expects to make Netflix available via its X1 operating system before Thanksgiving. “Our organization has made the conscious decision that we are going to aggregate other people’s content, some of which we will sell […]
Ah, that long-hoped-for moment when the ‘m’ becomes a ‘b.’ According to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), paid music streaming became a billion-dollar industry in the first half of 2016, generating over $1 billion in revenue and accounting for 30% of all music industry revenue. The trade group says […]
FOX Sports’ decision to pair a split-national MLS broadcast with an NFL game paid dividends, as the broadcast channel scored 1,298,000 viewers for its MLS presentations on Sunday, making it the most-watched MLS telecast of any kind and on any network in 12 years. The lineup of simultaneous MLS and NFL games marked the first […]
Sarah Spain is a keeper for ESPN, which signed the ESPN host and espnW writer to a multiyear extension. The deal sees Spain continue in her role as a featured reporter and columnist for espnW on multiple ESPN platforms as well as co-host a new national weeknight ESPN Radio show with Israel Gutierrez, entitled Izzy […]
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