In 2018, esports and traditional sports will continue to intersect, internet companies will double down on media rights, alternate realities will test how consumers watch sports and athletes train, and player-tracking data will be visualized in the NFL and NBA. If 2017 was the year that leagues started tracking player data, streaming companies started investing […]
While leagues and broadcasters doubled down on digital streaming this year, the vast majority of sports fans continued to pay for cable television. But their loyalty to cable may be waning as fans discover alternative ways to watch live sporting events. In a poll of consumer viewing habits taken this October by PwC, 81 percent 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 […]
More than eight months after the launch of DirecTV Now, parent company AT&T announced Monday it would begin to roll out CBS Networks on the growing internet-based television service and provide more sports for cord-cutters using it. CBS had been a glaring omission for DirecTV Now, and it brings to viewers the NFL on CBS — […]
Hulu is set to launch a live TV streaming service in the coming months, and it currently has something that recently-launched DirecTV Now does not — an agreement with CBS for its channels which include plenty of sports content. Hulu announced the agreement last week, giving its future streaming service the ability to carry both CBS […]
