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Eight of the National Pastime’s most recognizable and honored voices have been named as the finalists for the 2018 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The eight finalists for the 2018 Frick Award are: Buddy Blattner, Joe ...

As we get more and more into the business of disruption in media, two companies hell bent on figuring out the disruptive model for properties big and small are forming a partnership that will be able to deliver custom, snackable bites of content to you anywhere any time, almost in ...

The inventors of the Human Bobber line of multipurpose personal flotation devices will make their national television debut Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC’s Shark Tank. Florida-based Justin Rietema, 34, and Doug Schultz, 38, will pitch the Sharks on the Bottoms Up, a dual-purpose life vest that can be ...

On Wednesday night, the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF)—the leading authority on the participation of women and girls in athletics — hosted the biggest night in women’s sports at its 38thAnnual Salute to Women in Sports awards gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. WSF Founder Billie Jean King and WSF President Grete Eliassen were among ...

This past weekend, hundreds of action sports influencers, tastemakers, adventure seekers, executives, content creators and entertainment personalities gathered in Culver City to celebrate the official launch of EDGEtv’s adventure lifestyle entertainment network. Now available on over 20 million devices, EDGEtv set their sights on expanding their reach to over 5 ...

One of the big questions about Virtual Reality is how fast will it adapt to the masses. Is it a training tool or is it experiential, and once you try it is it a must have? That’s a question marketers, especially around sports, are asking every day. Is it viable ...

While the rising sport of rugby in the United States continues to look for widespread brand support, one thing is for sure; if you are involved in the fast paced Olympic version of Rugby Sevens and are in the collegiate space, you will know Penn Mutual. The 150 year old ...

The Atlantic 10 Conference announced today the addition of 22 men’s basketball broadcasts on the Stadium network, the new, fully programmed, 24/7, multiplatform sports network with distribution across both the linear television and digital space. Stadium will air 20 regular season A-10 men’s contests nationally. Games will appear in over ...

Time Inc.’s (NYSE:TIME) Sports Illustrated has teamed up with Minute Media, parent company of digital publishing brands 90min, 12up and DBLTAP, for a new content collaboration to enhance SI’s global coverage of soccer on its digital platforms. Under the deal, 90min, the world’s largest and fastest-growing digital football (soccer) platform, will ...

As the new NFL, NBA, NHL – and fall TV – seasons get underway, fuboTV, the leading sports-first live streaming TV service in the U.S., passed the 100,000 subscriber milestone in September. Originally launching in January 2015 as a streaming soccer destination, fuboTV has – in less than a year ...