Fox Sports will be distributing this season’s Thursday Night Football NFL package in 4K UHD and HDR. Beginning with this Thursday’s matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Fox Sports’ production and operations team will produce TNF games in 1080p/High Dynamic Range (HDR) and upconvert the image from there […] More
The National Football League (NFL) has expanded its partnership with the sports data company Sportradar. The broadened deal gives Sportradar exclusivity to license the distribution of NFL official league data and content, most notably allowing the sending of real-time official play-by-play data and NGS data to sports betting operators in the US and internationally where […] More
Twitter grabbed the attention of many in the content creation game last week with the announcement of a new live video editing and distribution tool, LiveCut. The cloud-based web application allows quick editing and sharing of video highlights of a live stream occurring from one’s own Twitter account. It’s a move that the social media […] More
In another busy summer of international football for the sports broadcasting industry, US Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Deportes has its innovative eye fixed firmly on the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Promising more coverage and a greater use of technology than it has ever used at this event, Univision will have an onsite presence at all of the […] More
eSports is many things: lucrative, polarising, intriguing and even (at times) surprising. From a broadcast standpoint, eSports represents a whole new world of production experimentation. What makes for a good viewing product? How can this be different and (in some ways) better than watching traditional sports? It’s that exciting prospect that enticed Matt Arden, executive […] More
DAZN, the subscription-based live-streaming service, is building its reputation in the US as the home for fight sports, with more than 100 nights’ worth of fight cards throughout the year. However, it’s obvious how important a night like Saturday 4 May was for the breakthrough platform when its crown jewel, boxer Canelo Alvarez, entered the […] More
Twitter unveiled plans for a laundry list of new and expanded media partnerships at its Digital Content NewFronts held in the Terminal 5 concert hall in New York City earlier this week. Naturally, major sports entities were a significant part of the lineup, with noteworthy live video plans set to hit the social media platform […] More
FanDuel Group appears set to become the first US sports betting service to offer video streaming of live sporting events within a sports betting app. In an extension of its partnership with Sportradar, the global provider of sports data and content, FanDuel is taking the unique first step of marrying live video and betting odds […] More
For the first time ever, live Major League Baseball (MLB) games are coming to YouTube. On Tuesday morning (30 April 2019), MLB unveiled that it has struck a partnership with the video sharing website that will see 13 games of the 2019 regular season distributed exclusively on the platform. The 13-game package — which will […] More
It’s been only just over a year since Endeavor acquired the streaming technology outfit NeuLion for $250 million, and it’s only been three months (January of this year), that the result of that purchase – the launch of Endeavor Streaming – became official. So, needless to say, the industry is still getting a feel for […] More
