As Major League Baseball kicks off its new season, SportTechie is offering its preview of the top technology storylines for the next seven months, from first pitch on Opening Day to last out of the World Series, with an assist to MLB executive vice president for strategy, technology and innovation, Chris Marinak, who appeared on the […]
Major League Advanced Media is working on a “Catch Up” feature to help fans joining a broadcast in progress to quickly review the action they missed. If, say, an MLB.TV subscriber logs into the livestream of a game in the fourth inning, the app can play a reel of the key moments from the first […]
NEW YORK — The origin story for Bleacher Report Live — Turner Sports’ soon-to-launch OTT platform offering a personalized live sports hub — dates to finding a solution for a very real Saturday afternoon need. A group of friends a few years ago were out at a lakehouse scouring the dial for an SMU football […]
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 […]
YouTube TV continued its aggressive play into the sports streaming market with a presenting partnership of the NBA Finals, the first such sponsorship in the league’s history. The logo for the championship series will read, “The Finals presented by YouTube TV,” and the multiyear agreement includes backing of the WNBA and G-League title-crowning series as […]
