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 […]
Part 3: The Current State of Live Streaming Sports
Part 1 of this Connected Sports Series looked at one particular TV Everywhere service from NBC Sports, it’s weaknesses and areas for improvement to prevent users from wanting to throw their computer or tablet out the window. Let’s now look at the mixed bag of TV Everywhere and virtual MVPDs available to live stream sports […]
Part 2: The Old Sports Network & Pay-TV Model Faltering in the Age of Cord Cutters
I stayed in the Friday night when Netflix’s Original Series,The Get Down, debuted, binge-watching all six episodes. The approximately six hours of viewing time was a priority for me (and a true joy) but nothing holds an urgency candle to viewing my sport, which was Arsenal’s first match of the Premier League season, on NBCSports.com […]
Part 1: Sports Networks Need to Get Their Live Streaming Game On
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 […]