For the spring, millions of kids will be sitting home as teachers try to continue to deliver on hundreds of hours of classwork while learning themselves about the use of technology that can improve their efforts in education not just now, but into the future. We also have thousands of ...
Read More »MLB Partners with Broadleaf Commerce for Digital Entitlements and eCommerce Subscriptions
Five months prior to Opening Day, Major League Baseball needed to ensure the eCommerce platform and partner they chose would be able to handle the migration of millions of MLB.tv and At Bat subscribers off of a Legacy system. The solution needed to scale to thousands of concurrent service agents, ...
Read More »NTT Delivers Ultra Reality Viewing of Live MLB Postseason Game
NTT, a global technology and business solutions leader, and Major League Baseball last week successfully conducted a Proof of Concept (PoC) with NTT’s Ultra Reality Viewing technology (URV) as part of their recently announced multi-year technology agreement making the Japan-based company an official MLB partner in the United States. This implementation ...
Read More »Flexential, MLB Partner to Bring New Data Center Infrastructure Online
Baseball fans consume games in a variety of ways as they follow their favorite teams and player throughout a season, including across multiple digital platforms built and operated by Major League Baseball (MLB). Those unique digital touchpoint experiences will benefit from a new technology partnership announced today between Flexential, a ...
Read More »Glanville Returns to ESPN
After a two-year hiatus, Doug Glanville is returning to ESPN as a baseball analyst with recurring appearances on “Baseball Tonight,” “SportsCenter,” and other ESPN morning programming. Glanville will continue with his primary role as the baseball insider for the Chicago Cubs on NBC Sports Chicago where he provides color commentary ...
Read More »Sling TV Launches MLB Network and MLB Network Strike Zone
Sling TV on Thursday launched MLB Network and MLB Network Strike Zone, bringing more than 150 regular season MLB games in addition to original programming, highlights and analysis to the live streaming service, just in time for Opening Day. Both channels are now included in Sling TV’s “Sports Extra” add-on ...
Read More »Ichiro Retirement Topps NOW Cards Available Through Friday
Topps NOW has made cards celebrating Ichiro Suzuki‘s retirement today in Japan available to fans for 24 hours (until 1:45 p.m. PT/4:45 p.m. PT Friday). As with all Topps NOW cards, only the number ordered will be printed. There is also a version with Ken Griffey Jr. and a separate Yusei ...
Read More »MLB.TV Now Available on Prime Video Channels
Amazon today announced the launch of MLB.TV on Prime Video Channels, allowing Prime members to subscribe to MLB.TV and stream regular season out-of-market baseball games live and on-demand, all from the Prime Video service. With MLB.TV, Prime members have a convenient option to watch live out-of-market MLB games while at ...
Read More »MLB, Nike, Fanatics Form New 10-Year Global Partnership
Major League Baseball, Nike and Fanatics announced a new 10-year global partnership that makes Nike the Official Uniform and Footwear Supplier of MLB starting in the 2020 season. The new cooperation among the three organizations will provide Major League Baseball players with uniforms developed by Nike’s team of innovative designers ...
Read More »MLB, DAZN Announce Live Digital U.S. Rights Deal
Major League Baseball and global sports streaming platform DAZN have agreed to a three-year live digital rights partnership in the United States, set to begin with the 2019 MLB regular season, it was announced today by Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., and DAZN Group Executive Chairman John Skipper. Today’s ...
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