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FanDuel Group recently rebranded its 24-hour cable and satellite television network, TVG Network, as FanDuel TV and introduced a new OTT service, FanDuel TV Plus. The…
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A once-dismissed antitrust lawsuit brought in 2015 by a collection of NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers against the NFL and DirecTV—the subscribers claim they were…
ICC Cozies Up to U.S. Broadcasters Ahead of Cricket World Cup
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Turner Sports Finds Studio Success With a ‘Treehouse’ of Personalities
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Deloitte Purchase Foreshadows Hyper-Personalized Sports Broadcasts
Deloitte Consulting recently announced the acquisition of a company called National TeleConsultants (NTC), a company that builds, maintains and modernizes broadcast…
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Step aside, SpongeBob. Move over, Mannings. During Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and the rest of the Inside the NBA crew will be the…
Rushing Out to Buy a 4K TV for the Super Bowl? Slow Down
NBC will not be broadcasting Super Bowl LVI in 4K Ultra High Definition, instead opting to air the big game in 1080i HD. An NBC Sports spokesperson said the network’s…
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Peyton Manning’s MNF Show Just the Latest Step in Multicast Revolution
Starting this week, Peyton Manning will be calling Monday Night Football for ESPN. Sort of. Technically, Manning will be co-hosting Monday Night Football with Peyton and…
Media Execs Rein in Talk of Sports’ Exodus from TV to Streaming
While all the rapturous talk about the rise of direct-to-consumer streaming platforms likely won’t die out until some app developer tosses the last shovelful of…
‘It’s not an 8K camera, it’s an $8k camera’: Meet the Man Behind FOX’s Broadcast Sensation
The so-called “megalodon” camera rig returns Sunday, when the Sony-DSLR-on-a-Ronin-gimbal will get its biggest audience yet during the Packers and Buccaneers’ NFC…
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‘NFL Live’ Crew Headlines First ESPN+ Football Multicast Feed After Groundbreaking Year
NFL Live castmembers Laura Rutledge, Mina Kimes, Dan Orlovsky and Marcus Spears will host an alternative stream of Sunday’s Tennessee Titans-Baltimore Ravens playoff…
College Football Hits 100 Games Disrupted By COVID
More than 100 games have been cancelled or postponed during this college football season, a grim milestone that shows the cost of the sport’s top tier pushing forward…
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