The National Football League and Verizon announced a multi-year extension of their agreement that allows streaming on mobile phones. Verizon currently has the rights to stream NBC’s Sunday Night Football, ESPN’s Monday Night Football and NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football...
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As we approach the 2012 NFL regular season, let’s take a look at the online streaming plans for the League’s TV partners. Believe it or not, online real-time streaming of games began back in 2007 when DirecTV released its Supercast...
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Ok, maybe you’re not jonesing for the linkage, but at least you can read them at your leisure. Sometimes I think way too long about the title of the post and this is the case today. Anyway, let’s get to...
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Let’s do some linkage on this Super Bowl Weekend. The Weekend Viewing Picks have my sports and entertainment suggestions. Time for your links. As you can imagine, many of the stories will deal with Sunday’s Super Bowl. National Michael Hiestand...
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We have the official announcement from the National Football League on the plans to stream NBC’s coverage of the postseason including Super Bowl XLVI online. All of NBC’s games which include its Wild Card Playoff Doubleheader on January 7, 2012,...
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Let’s do some links. May not be a full set. Depends on how much I can get done here. We’ll start with Alexandra Bruell of Advertising Age who says Penn State University has hired a public relations firm to help...
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Let’s do some Saturday linkage for you today. Since Wednesday, I’ve been trying to trying catch up here. John Ourand of Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal notes that the NFL and Time Warner Cable have ended carriage talks on NFL...
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Let’s do some links now. I have to write my recap of Blogs with Balls 4 while everything is still fresh in my mind. It really was a great event to attend and wonderful to meet so many good people....
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We have some linkage for you. It’s a bit late, but better late than never. First, Mike McCarthy at USA Today writes that former NBC Football Night in America analyst Tiki Barber is reportedly “devastated” that no NFL team called...
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A nice day here in Southern New England and I’m at home watching some good sports action as we have afternoon MLB games, the U.S. Open, a little CFL and some college football later. A good sports day for the...
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I’m linking in the middle of doing some badly needed DIY projects here at the Fang’s Bites abode so I might be a bit scarce today. I’ll do what I can on this lazy Sunday, the middle of the Labor...
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Received this press release from the National Football League regarding its NFL Mobile service that’s available only to Verizon Wireless subscribers. ESPN’s Monday Night Football becomes available this season adding to the library of NBC’s Sunday Night Football and NFL...
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As the Northeast battens down the hatches for the impending hit of Hurricane Irene this weekend and it’s not a matter of if it’s coming, but when, I’ll probably won’t be blogging much over the next few days. I’ll do...
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Let’s provide links while I can. Trying not to make this a week where links are scarce. Let’s get this done. First, Jessica E. Vascellaro and Darren Everson of the Wall Street Journal look at how infusions of TV rights...
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Announced this morning, Longhorn Network gets its first major cable provider pickup just a day before it officially launches on Friday. Verizon FiOS TV announces that it will distribute nationwide the ESPN-backed regional sports network devoted totally to the University...
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The Watch ESPN app which allows subscribers of Time Warner Cable/Bright House and Verizon FiOS systems to see the linear ESPN on smartphones and tablets. This announcement made in the last hour by ESPN. The app had been previously released...
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Getting a late start on the Monday links. Part of it was due to the Masters thesis I wrote on the NCAA Tournament earlier today. Let’s do the links for you. From USA Today’s Michael Hiestand, we have him saying...
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I have found a few more links today and instead of shoving them into the earlier edition, I’ll just a whole new set of links. First, Sports Business Daily says the overnight ratings for the NCAA Tournament Selection Show were...
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I wasn’t able to provide links during the day and I keep accumulating sports media stories and I don’t want to get into this pattern where I can provide links Monday through Wednesday, but not from Thursday through Sunday. That’s...
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Joining Time Warner Cable, Verizon Fios becomes the second cable provider to sign an agreement with Disney to offer the dedicated ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and Buzzer Beater college basketball channel online. These are the same networks that are available on...
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It has been a very busy Thursday into Friday. I worked all night into this morning and haven’t slept so I’m going on fumes here. But I still do the linkage because it is what you come to expect from...
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When ESPN through its parent Disney forged a long-term agreement with Time Warner Cable, it developed two new channels, Goal Line and Buzzer Beater with the idea of expanding it to other services. That time has come as both channels...
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Let’s do the Thursday links as I have to leave early to avoid Patriots traffic ahead of their preseason game against the Saints tonight. Onto the links. Steve Elling of CBSSports.com reports about a confrontation between Golf Channel’s Jim Gray...
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I thank Twitter follower sox1918 for sending me this release. This story is just coming out now, that the first NFL game to be produced in 3-D will be provided exclusively for Verizon Fios customers in New York, New Jersey,...
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