“It has that thrill of a 100-meter dash or horse racing.” Yes, Nicholas Horbaczewski was referencing drone racing to the New York Times, a non-traditional sport that has received more public recognition and visibility on television over the last nine months than ever before. Yet, it wasn’t until last year that Horbaczewski even knew what […]
ESPN has decided to enter one of the next frontiers in the sports industry: drone racing. The “The Worldwide Leader” which has been at the forefront of other non-traditional programming like eSports announced a multi-year agreement with the Drone Racing League on Wednesday. ESPN will have distribution rights in North, South and Central America in addition […]
Sports Illustrated and ESPN photographers set aside their big camera lenses and published some of the first photos that were taken using the unreleased iPhone 7 Plus on Sunday. Get The Latest Sports Tech News In Your Inbox! The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which will be released by Apple on Friday, feature upgraded […]
After parting ways with ESPN, NFL analyst Cris Carter is teaming up with Twitter to provide live analysis on Periscope for Thursday Night Football games. Carter announced the partnership on Twitter on Wednesday. A Twitter spokesman later confirmed that Carter would turn to Periscope for commentary on Thursdays, declining further comment. Twitter will live stream […]
The Walt Disney Company has announced they are acquiring a 33 percent stake of BAMTech. The deal will see Disney leverage BAMTech’s streaming and over-the-top (OTT) services to help launch an ESPN-branded “multi-sport” streaming service by the end of 2016. Disney will pay a total of $1 billion to acquire this one-third stake. They will pay in two […]
