Dish Network has filed lawsuit against Univision over the Spanish-language channel’s plan to livestream Mexican professional soccer games, in English, on Facebook Live. The news site Cablefax wrote that it had seen a heavily redacted version of the complaint, which was filed in New York’s Southern District federal court earlier this month; the crux of […]
Israel-based Pixellot and Atlanta-based PlayOn! Sports are set to bring automated live and on-demand coverage of non-televised high school sports to audiences around the country. Through their new partnership, PlayOn!, one of the nation’s leading high school sports media firms, and Pixellot, a top provider of automated sports-focused production solutions, hope to provide high schools an […]
Sling TV will offer its first pay-per-view event with a live stream of UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2 on Saturday from the Honda Center in Anaheim. Pre-orders for the event are available for $59.99 to new and existing customers of Sling TV, as they can watch it directly on the Sling TV app. By […]
Wearable technology startup ActionStreamer, which is co-founded by former NFL player Dhani Jones, offers television viewers an on-field perspective of sports action and received $1.88 million in an oversubscribed seed financing round. The camera weighs less than two-tenths of a pound and is fully self-contained — with no exposed cords, wires or belt packs — […]
Monday afternoon’s intracity interleague rivalry meeting between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs will be broadcast on Facebook Live, as part of a Cubs partnership with with ABC 7 Chicago and Facebook Live. For fans in the team’s home television territory, the game is available on the Chicago Cubs and ABC 7 Chicago Facebook […]
