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Facebook Remains Publicly Coy About Sports Rights But Hints Interest

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t directly answer a question about his company’s plans for bidding on sports rights but distilled their very ethos and mass appeal when describing the content he would like to include under the social media site’s Watch tab. “We’re going to focus our products on all the ways to […]

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How Instagram Aims To Change The Face Of Athlete Media

NEW YORK — Tennis icon Serena Williams is casually chatting about how she’s afraid of sharks. Golden State Warriors sharpshooter Stephen Curry is polling fans about which shoes to buy. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is orchestrating a scavenger hunt to find free tickets. These are just a sampling of a typical day on […]

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Facebook Weighs Premier League Rights Bid, Approach To Sports Live Streaming

Facebook’s entry to sports livestreaming, to date, has been piecemeal and tentative, either simulcasting a broadcaster’s feed of weekly Major League Baseball games or Champions League soccer matches or exclusively producing feeds for minor conference college football games or of sports outside the mainstream like snooker and surfing. Despite protestations from the company that a […]

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