SiriusXM will offer baseball fans comprehensive coverage of Major League Baseball’s 2018 All-Star Week, featuring live play-by-play of the 89th All-Star Game Presented by Mastercard, an exclusive SiriusXM Town Hall broadcast with Commissioner Rob Manfred, and numerous other live broadcasts from Washington D.C. On Sunday, July 15, SiriusXM will have the exclusive radio broadcast ...
Read More »Minor League Baseball, ISM Connect Partner For Fan Engagement
Minor League Baseball™ (MiLB™) today announced a long-term agreement with ISM Connect—a leading provider of data metric smart screen engagement technology built to promote enhanced live event experiences—to form a new digital network to connect MiLB teams, partners and fans across the country. ISM Connect’s network of high-definition LCD smart screens ...
Read More »ESPN+ Direct-to-Consumer Subscription Streaming Service Now Available on Roku Devices
Roku on Monday announced the availability of ESPN+ through the new ESPN channel on the Roku® platform, allowing Roku player and Roku TV users to access thousands of additional live events, on-demand content and original programming not available on ESPN’s linear TV or digital networks. ESPN+ is the first-ever multi-sport, direct-to-consumer premium ...
Read More »2018 Major League Baseball Season Airs Nationwide on SiriusXM
SiriusXM will again provide the most comprehensive national audio coverage available for the 2018 Major League Baseball season, offering subscribers access to live play-by-play of every regular season and postseason game, as well as 24/7 news, talk and analysis on the exclusive MLB Network Radio channel. MLB programming on SiriusXM, ...
Read More »MLB, Facebook partner for weekly broadcasts
Major League Baseball and Facebook on Wednesday unveiled a newly expanded partnership for the 2018 MLB season, highlighted by a historic agreement to produce and broadcast one game every week to a global audience on Facebook. This 25-game package of weekly broadcasts will be distributed exclusively on Facebook Watch in ...
Read More »MLB Network To Air Winter Meetings Coverage
With the pursuit of free agent Shohei Ohtani in full-swing and the Giancarlo Stanton trade rumors heating up, MLB Network is preparing extensive coverage of the 2017 Baseball Winter Meetings in Orlando, Florida next week, with insiders Peter Gammons (@pgammo), Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman), Ken Rosenthal(@Ken_Rosenthal) Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) and Tom Verducci reporting live across MLB Network’s more than 35 hours of on-site programming. ...
Read More »YouTube TV & Major League Baseball: A multi-faceted 2017 World Series partnership
YouTube and Major League Baseball today announced a multi-faceted partnership to drive fan excitement for the 2017 World Series, as well as showcase another way for baseball fans to watch the national pastime with a new cable-free, live TV service — YouTube TV. As part of the partnership, YouTube TV ...
Read More »2017 World Baseball Classic to be broadcast in 182 countries & territories
Fifty-one media outlets have signed on to broadcast the 2017 World Baseball Classic, which began earlier today in Seoul, South Korea. The fourth installment of the premier international baseball tournament, which features the world’s top 16 National Teams competing over a 17-day span, will be distributed via media platforms in 182 countries ...
Read More »Fitch: Long-Term TV Deals Strengthen U.S. Sports 2017 Outlook
Declines in TV viewership early in the NFL season have turned out to be little more than an election-related blip and will not adversely affect the stable outlook in place for U.S. sports finance next year, according to Fitch Ratings in its 2017 outlook for U.S. sports. The primary reason ...
Read More »WHOOP Announces Findings of Largest Performance Study Ever Conducted in Professional Sports
WHOOP, the human performance optimization company, today announced the results of a performance study involving minor league players from nine Major League Baseball (MLB) organizations. The landmark study, which was conducted with 230 minor league players from June – November, 2016, was designed to monitor the relationship between physiological status ...
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