Baseball’s most innovative franchise, the Houston Astros, triumphed over a Los Angeles Dodgers roster assembled by a front office with several Ph.D.’s in what was undoubtedly the most data-driven World Series to date. Their sensibilities were an appropriate capstone to a 2017 Major League Baseball season full of advancements. Here are SportTechie’s starting lineup of […]
After announcing in August that CBS was looking to launch a sports version of its over-the-top service CBSN, company executives expanded on that vision and divulged additional detail about the service on CBS’s November earnings call. The 24/7 live-streaming sports channel will be called CBS Sports HQ and launch “in the coming months,” according to […]
British telecommunications giant BT has launched a competition to find startups that can help to improve sports broadcasts on its BT Sport subscription TV channels. This is the second time this competition will be run for BT Sport and will be handled by BT’s Infinity Lab. The application to enter is now open and the […]
College sports can arguably be some of the most exciting sports to watch, however they are not always accessible — especially the Olympic and non-revenue sports. Now, the Big Ten Network is trying to do something about that and has partnered with FloSports on a four-year agreement that provides the subscription-based streaming sports platform with […]
Amazon’s stream of NFL Thursday Night Football games saw a total of 7.1 million views in its first four games, with its reach extending to 187 countries and territories. After reporting at the end of September that the first game it streamed — between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears — drew an average […]
