NEW YORK — More than a year ago, NBA commissioner Adam Silver first broached the idea of letting fans purchase just the final minutes of an individual game rather than outlay for its entirety or even a full season-long subscription to League Pass. The league tested that idea on Friday by offering the fourth quarter […]
Peaceful protests following the shooting death of Stephon Clark disrupted a Sacramento Kings game last week, dwindling attendance at the 17,000-seat Golden 1 Center to just 2,400 fans and delaying the final round of the Kings’ March Madness-like Capitalize startup competition. This Sunday, the team held its own NBA-backed protest ahead of its game against […]
The masterminds behind a new artificially-intelligent soccer chatbot that will provide game updates and detailed player statistics for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia say their technology may one-day replace traditional TV commentators. In what Beijing-based artificial intelligence company Cubee Technology is calling the world’s first AI-driven football [soccer] chatbot, the product, named AIBALL, […]
Tennis Channel, a 24-hour multimedia platform devoted to professional tennis and the tennis lifestyle, has partnered with Verizon Digital Media Services to power the Tennis Channel app’s video delivery. “As we grow Tennis Channel’s app, Verizon Digital Media Services lets us deliver the exceptional streaming experiences our users have come to expect,” Tennis Channel’s SVP, […]
The PGA Tour has launched a free ad-supported streaming channel on video-on-demand service XUMO that will feature access to taped highlights, recaps, player interviews, tournament previews and live coverage of certain holes. The companies say this marks the first ad-supported PGA Tour over-the-top channel available on smart TVs. It’ll feature both live and on-demand programming, […]
