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Author: Troy Dreier, Contributor, Streaming & Digital
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Professional Squash Association and Facebook team up to stream Team Championship worldwideOne of the biggest events in the squash world is coming in mid-December. The 2019 World Squash Federation Men’s World Team Squash Championship will take place 15-21 December in Washington, DC, and viewers across the world will be able to...
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How ESL Gaming streams big events on small budgetsESL Gaming travels the world to bring fans the biggest eSports competitions, and it does so with a minimal approach that would make traditional pro sports leagues shake with fear. The company has learned a few things about streaming over...
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NBA takes multiplatform approach to engaging fansEvery social media platform is a tool that sports teams and rights owners can use to engage with fans. The trick is understanding each platform’s strengths and speaking to its users in a tailored way. Speaking at the recent Hashtag...
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How CBS Sports HQ delivered the NBA DraftThe team at CBS Sports HQ must have been in a generous mood on Thursday night (20 June) because the free streaming network delivered all the excitement from the NBA Draft live with a multi-location setup and expert analysis. The...
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Digital P Media live-streams bass fishing competition for Fishing League WorldwideFishing League Worldwide (FLW) has special live-streaming challenges that other sports organisations don’t have to deal with. For one thing, its competitors aren’t all on one field. Instead, they’re scattered across large lakes, often miles apart, and nowhere near a...
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Fox Sports and Caffeine team up to present FIFA19 Global SeriesWhere do eSports fit on a traditional sports network? Fox Sports is trying to work that out, with a little help from online platform Caffeine. The two will co-present live broadcasts of several events in the FIFA 19 Global Series...
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Super Bowl LIII: CBS Sports HQ bets big on the big gameThis is the first Super Bowl for CBS Sports HQ. The 24/7 streaming sports network, which launched in February, will be all over Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. All this week CBS Sports HQ is offering four daily shows that...
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Limelight looks to the future of live sports streamingLive sports streaming took off in 2018, but viewers still found plenty of issues holding it back. While viewers liked having easy access from any device, they didn’t like the quality concerns that often went along with it. Content-delivery network...
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Pac-12 Networks goes all-in with AWS and cloud workflowThe US sports digital, cable and satellite service Pac-12 Networks is on course to produce 850 matches during the 2018-19 season and has found what it considers to be the perfect production partner in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using a variety...
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Inside GolfTV, the PGA Tour, and Discovery’s international expansionIn June the PGA Tour and Discovery announced a 12-year partnership to create a streaming service for the international market but included few details. Now they have unveiled GolfTV, available to viewers in every country except the USA starting 1...
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Snapchat looks to be the home of sports for the next generation“SportsCenter has been a huge success: over 17 million people a month tune in to SportsCenter on Snap,” said Nick Bell, vice president of content, Snapchat. “What’s more impressive actually is that, of the 2.5 million people that watch every...
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Turner Sports expands featured group coverage at PGA ChampionshipFor the PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis this week, viewers both at home and on the course will have all the golf they can handle. Turner Sports, which manages the digital platforms for the PGA, views...
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United Soccer League uses AI to create clips in near real-timeWith more than 550 games in the regular season alone, creating clips for all the United Soccer League’s various social platforms is daunting. When hiring additional video editors stopped being a feasible solution, the USL went looking for a different...
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