Facebook has announced that it will introduce Watch, a new platform for users to watch shows consisting of episodes with live or recorded content. For some television viewers, that will mean the addition of yet another alternative place where they can find sports content. Watch will have plenty of live sports and sports-related video on-demand […]
Disney will launch an ESPN-branded sports streaming service early next year that will feature roughly 10,000 events from Major League Baseball, hockey, soccer and tennis, as well as college sports. The media giant announced the subscription-based service Tuesday alongside a slew of other updates that stemmed from its quarterly earnings report and a $1.58 billion […]
The Walt Disney Company announced plans on Tuesday to acquire a majority stake in BAMtech, a technology and video streaming company previously owned by MLBAM, for $1.58 billion. As part of the deal, Disney said it will launch an ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018 and a new Disney-branded direct-to-consumer Netflix-like streaming service […]
CBS isn’t too worried about competition from digital media companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter when it comes to vying for future sports rights, even as sports streaming continues to grow in popularity and rights continue to pour into Silicon Valley. On a call with analysts following the company’s second-quarter earnings report late […]
CBS has announced plans to launch a 24/7 live-streaming sports channel later this year, as the broadcast company works to better compete with digital rivals and a loss in subscriptions stemmed from cord cutters. On a call Monday with analysts following the company’s quarterly earnings report, CBS Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said the company […]
