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For Team USA’s first Group Stage match — a 1-0 win over Australia on June 8 — Fox Sports registered 118,000 unique streams on its Fox Sports Go platform for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. That made it the most-streamed authenticated event ever on the app, beating out even Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. Read More …
Twitter, seeking to be a bigger player in live events, is planning a new product to curate tweets and other content about major sports contests, entertainment events and breaking news. As part of the push into live events, Twitter earlier this year bid on the right to the NFL’s first streaming-only broadcast, according to a Read More …
YouTube is getting more serious about gaming. This summer, the video streaming service will launch YouTube Gaming, a new app and website dedicated to video game content: Let’s Plays, livestreams, speedruns and more. Source: YouTube launching its own dedicated gaming app and website, YouTube Gaming | Polygon
The proposed settlement comes about a month after a New York federal judge agreed to certify a class action that contends that consumers have been forced to pay too much for out-of-market NHL and Major League Baseball games — and that telecasts get blacked out for in-market games thanks to restrictive agreements with the leagues’ Read More …
For those of us who attended EE’s trial 4G Broadcast demo at the FA Cup Final on Saturday afternoon, it was quickly apparent how the much-hyped new technology could have a significant impact on live sports (or live anything). Source: IP&TV News tries out 4G Broadcast at the FA Cup Final | IP&TV News