By Kim Owens, Liz Graves In 1958, the New York Times ran a review of the film, The Defiant Ones, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, “a remarkably apt and dramatic visualization of a social idea – the idea of men of different races brought together to face misfortune in a bond of brotherhood,” wrote […]
Bounce TV announces a new live streaming app for Brown Sugar, AT&T’s highly-anticipated DirecTV Now service is getting ready for its blast off, China’s Suning pays big bucks for the English Premier League rights, and more in this week’s ICYMI Streaming Buzz. Brown Sugar Streaming App, “Just Like Netflix, Only Blacker” Forty-plus years after […]
This week in Streaming Buzz, Hulu announces plans to launch Live TV, Comcast says no to delivering a cable-less live streaming TV service, Twitter announces #WhatsNext for their core business, and Facebook takes targeted ads to OTT. There’s more, so read on… Live Streaming TV Competition Heats Up as Hulu Joins the Fray Last week […]
In the past week, Twitter live streamed HIGHLY varied content, from Salesforce’s Dreamforce event, led by ringmaster and CEO, Marc Benioff, to the NFL game between the 49ers and the Cardinals. Sunday night it was the presidential debate, which broke the record with over 17 million Tweets sent over the 90-minute political ride (which may […]
Earlier this year I complained about the weaknesses of NBC Sports’ live streaming platform, that it would freeze or just not work altogether. Back then I was hoping the networks’ digital team would take the timing of SXSW 2016 and their sponsorship of SXsports, which turns Austin’s Four Seasons into an NBC-branded sports conference, to […]
