NBA commissioner Adam Silver raised some eyebrows in the month before the start of the season when he brought up Twitch. At Recode’s Code Conference, Silver again highlighted Twitch, describing it as a place where the streams are filled with the chatter of fans and all sorts of information appearing on the screen. He did so […]
Pedro Martinez was never ejected from a major league game for arguing balls and strikes, but the Boston Red Sox’s Hall of Fame pitcher admits he should have been once. In a start against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on July 25, 2003, Martinez began his tirade by wagging his finger at home […]
Facebook Watch debuted in the U.S. in the beginning of September and is making waves in the crowded Internet video sector. One of the first shows on the Watch lineup is “Outside the NBA.” Just like the TNT postgame show “Inside the NBA,” the show features host Ernie Johnson with NBA personalities Shaquille O’Neal, Charles […]
DraftKings will now try its hand at live streaming sports. The daily fantasy sports giant announced Tuesday that users will be able to live stream select EuroLeague Basketball games through its app, marking the company’s inaugural foray into the streaming world. Starting in 2018, users in the U.S. and Canada will have access to one […]
PHILADELPHIA — Is the six-second commercial the future of televised live sports? Fox Networks Group’s Bruce Lefkowitz thinks it could be. The network’s executive vice president of ad sales said as much during a panel about the future of sports consumption at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Sports Business Summit on Friday. Those six-second ads […]
