June 2007
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All-Star batting practice webcast
Taking B.P. becomes a whole new ballgame FoxSports.com and MLB.com will offer a two-hour webcast featuring the stars warming up and taking their cuts in the cage before the July 10 game. The webcast, hosted by Fox Sports’ Chris Rose and new MLB.com hire Harold Reynolds, will start three hours before Fox’s coverage of the All-Star festivities from AT&T Park in San Francisco.
(via DigiSpo by...
Tour de France rides YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/letourdefrance The Tour de France, the most popular cycling race, launched the official Tour de France channel on YouTube. The 2007 Tour de France will be the 94th Tour de France, taking place from July 7 to July 29, 2007. Tip of the hat goes goes out to the Tour de France Blog: Tour de France 2007: Tour de YouTube
The Tour organization continues its cautious experiments...
Leagues protective of digital assets
Los Angeles Times, Greg Johnson, has a brief overview of how major sports organizations, such as MLB, NFL, NASCAR, NHL, and NCAA, approach digital distribution of action footage. The landscape is quickly changing as broadcasters want more digital rights from the sports leagues. Some leagues are not so quick to give up these assets while the NHL, who is struggling to keep fan interest, is probably...
New NBA TV deal extends digital rights
New NBA Deal for ESPN/ABC, TNT a Multiplatform Fast-Break
For the total sports network, the deal will allow it to present games and other content, including NBA-related segments in SportsCenter and Pardon the Interruption, across 17 platforms. The lineup: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Classic; the networks’ respective HD channels; digital platforms ESPN.com, ESPN360, ESPN Mobile TV and ESPN...
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More european sports leagues join lawsuit
The list continues to grow against YouTube.
More European Sports Leagues Join Class Action Lawsuit Against YouTube
The Europeans are really starting to hate YouTube. The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) announced that it “strongly” supports the copyright class action lawsuit against YouTube and Google. Sheez, Google just can’t seem to stay out of lawsuit trouble when...
adidas goes online with Futbol Meets Football
adidas is running the “Futbol Meets Football” campaign online as the build hype as David Beckham heads into the U.S. sports scene.
Ad campaign helps fuel Beckham hype
Adidas has come up with its own way to hype global soccer icon David Beckham’s pending entrance into the U.S. sports scene: Show him trading sports for the day with rising NFL star Reggie Bush.
The athletic equipment and apparel...
Formula1.com redesigns, no ads
The official website of Formula 1, Formula1.com, launched a snazzy looking new site this week. The site has a very nice web 2.0 feel. Surprisingly the site has no ads or sponsorship. However, as nice as the site looks I don’t see any new content offerings that the old site didn’t have.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
MLB.com gets PR man
Now that MLB.com is as big as some of the teams within the Major League Baseball the site gets its own PR man, Matthew A. Gould.
Matthew A. Gould has been named Vice President, Corporate Communications for MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball.
In his new capacity, Mr. Gould will oversee all aspects of organizational communication and...
Eagles launch new site
Monday the Philadelphia Eagles launched a new site along with a new design and development partner, AmericanEagle.com. Previously, the Eagles worked with Epic Cycle Interactive but made a change this off-season. Americaneagle.com has been on the upswing grabbing two NFL clients this year. Probably even more interesting is the Eagles are not 100% tied to just one development partner, MyEAGLESWorld...
Greg Oden launches blog on Yardbarker.com
Soon to be NBA player Greg Oden, considered by many the NBA’s #1 pick in the draft, has launched a blog. Unlike Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling who started a blog on his own controlled domain name, 38pitches.com. Oden is blogging on Yardbarker.com, a social news site much like Digg.com focused on sports. My question, why would Oden blog on a lesser known, albeit cool, website such as Yardbarker?...
Photos a revenue oppertunity?
When a picture is worth more than a thousand words … Printroom.com, the engine behind many sport team’s photo sites, says some NFL teams have produced upwards of $50-100K in gross revenue over a single season. And some of MLB partners have realized over $700K in revenues in a single season. Printroom currently works with a number of NFL, MLB, NCAA, NBA, NHL, and AFL teams. Below are a few...
Joel Price: at the new remodeled apple store......
Joel Price: at the new remodeled apple store… Looking for a alt to the bluetooth apple mouse (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Joel Price: at best buy and they don't have any...
Joel Price: at best buy and they don’t have any bluetooth mice (via Twitter / Joel Price)
NCAA clarifies live blogging, sort of
Last week after a reporter was ejected from an NCAA baseball tournament for live blogging the NCA issues clarification on restrictions on bloggers. NCAA eases restrictions on live updates
The NCAA eased its restrictions on blogging and said live updates from its events are permitted as long as they are limited to scores and time remaining. “Any reference to game action in a blog or other type of...
Epic Cycle get’s aggressive with Multimedia Center
I attended a webinar yesterday hosted by SportsAdMarketplace, now part of San Diego based Epic Cycle Interactive, for a presentation showing off a new Multimedia Center they are launching to help NFL team’s monetize video. Even though the Multimedia Center is nothing special the tie-in with SportsAdMarketplace makes it interesting. Basically they would provides sales for pre-roll video and...
Sports in space
Mark Newman of MLB.com has a interesting article about astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and NASA working with MLBAM to get baseball audio to the astronauts while they conducting science experiments aboard the International Space Station. Few things I did’nt know: MLB.com: Were there bandwidth issues with being able to actually watch a full game broadcast?
Lopez-Alegria: They can send a video,...
Qualcomm and MLB.com partner
MLB Advanced Media is Qualcomm’s first BREW BrandXtend customer and would use it to offer baseball fans access channels of mobile content offered exclusively by MLB.com. Specifics of the service will be announced at a later date. Press release follows.
QUALCOMM and Major League Baseball Advanced Media Announce Agreement for First BREW BrandXtend Content Offering
Initiative to Mobilize MLB.com...
Rivals.com partners with Yahoo! Sports
Rumored for months Yahoo gobbles up Rivals.com for a reported $100 million.
Partnering with Yahoo! will help us build the next generation of Rivals’ products and services for hardcore and casual sports fans, and allow us to reach an entirely new fan base (after all, Yahoo! is the most-visited site on the Internet).
Yahoo Buying a High School and College Sports Network (NYT)
The move is...
“Glubble enhances Firefox so that your kids can see just the best of the web. As...”
– Features | Glubble
CineSport launches
Gregg Winik, CineSport founder, left the NBA in 2006 to start Winik Media. His first offering comes today with the launch of CineSport.com
CineSport is a online video sports news and highlights show for the web. The service is using brightcove for its video player and promises exclusive video highlights of NBA, NHL, NASCAR.
Watching a clip that highlights last weeks U.S. Open shows photos with...
Majority stake in FanFoto sold
Fanfoto was launched back in 2004 to create incremental revenue for the Clubs. Since then 13 MLB clubs have a Fanfoto operation.
Fenway Sports Group has sold its majority stake in FanFoto, a photo souvenir company formed three years ago, to Colorado-based SharpShooter Imaging LLC.
FanFoto takes pictures of fans at ballparks and arenas around the country and then directs those fans to a...
MLB.com the $400 million bling
In a time when the NFL is debating if it should bring club sites under NFL.com (Subscription) much like the current MLBAM model that is boasting $400 million in revenue. Ironically, the MLBAM model is much like NFL’s historic 1961 pact to distribute national TV revenue equally among all teams that is credited for making the NFL Americas top sport. With MLBAM revenues like this the NFL is certian...
NBC reveals Olympics digital media plans
In a presentation to analysts, NBC Universal sheds some light on it’s digital media plans for the Beijing Olympics.
On-air…NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Universal HD, USA HD & Telemundo
On-line…with first ever live streaming of 24 Olympic sports (over 1,200 hours)
On-demand…with first ever dailyhighlight packages of all Olympic sports…full rewind of key events
On the go…first ever wireless...
Yahoo! Fantasy Football open
Yahoo Fantasy Football is open for signups along with a few new features:
Easy drag and drop line-up management
Co-manager, manage your team with a friend or family member
Invite friends from previous leagues
Custom League URL, a permanent URL that is yours to keep
Display the results of previous seasons
(via Fantasy Sports 2.0)
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
U.S. Open on MobiTV
NBC struck a deal with MobiTV to distribute live video programming from golf’s 2007 U.S. Open Championship.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
Wallstrip talks GSI Commerce
My favorite video blog Wallstrip.com, a website that produces a daily financial video news, features Philly based GSI Commerce. GSI a provider of e-commerce solutions for professional sports organizations such as NFLShop.com, MLB.com, 49ers, and Reebok as well as many more non-sport sites.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
Watch6-13-07 GSI Commerce Inc. (GSIC) | Wallstrip
MLB still not a fan of Sling
Sling Hits, Misses With Pro Sports
With Sling Media last week announcing a partnership with the National Hockey League just days after a run-in with Major League Baseball over fans’ usage of the company’s device that lets TV viewers watch programs out of their homes, sports leagues must decide whether to fight or duck when it comes to technology that may threaten their business.
A lawyer...
“In 2000 MLBAM had revenue of $5 million. This year (2005) baseball says the...”
– MLB Advanced Media — baseball’s Most Valuable Player - Dec. 23, 2005
Reporter ejected for live blogging
Courier-Journal reporter ejected from U of L game
A Courier-Journal sports reporter had his media credential revoked and was ordered to leave the press box during the NCAA baseball super-regional yesterday because of what the NCAA alleged was a violation of its policies prohibiting live Internet updates from its championship events.
(via Geek, Sports and Nonsense! - Joel Price)
ESPN buys world’s biggest cricket Web site
“We don’t think of ourselves as an American sports television company. We think of ourselves as a large sports and media entertainment company that operates around the world,” Russell Wolff, ESPN International executive vice president and managing director told Reuters.
(via Geek, Sports and Nonsense! - Joel Price)
Apple Safari for Windows
Apple to release Safari 3 for Windows. Yet another browser to test for! Public beta available now.
Continuous WWDC keynote coverage | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
11:13–Jobs switches over to a Windows XP window. “This is strange,” he jokes. He demonstrates the Windows Safari browsing through various sites, showing off a new tabbing feature. The benchmark we didn’t catch is called iBench, and...
MyColts.net to go public
The long awaited Pat Coyle’s social network for Colts fans will go public this week. Pat and his team have invested heavily in mycolts.net hoping it “to be a leader in sports and entertainment social nets.” Pat says he not planning any hype around the launch, but he has been talking about it for well over a year, and I’m certain he can’t wait to allow fans to use it. My only suggestion for Pat is...
MLB.com gets exclusive with Alyssa
Actress Alyssa Milano, who is best known for her roles in the sitcom Who’s the Boss? and most recently Charmed, has designed her own line of clothing for female baseball fans, but she even keeps a baseball blog on MLB.com. Apparently she’s a big baseball/Dodgers fan.
Knowing she’s a Dodger fans would a Padre fan want to by her clothing? I know, that’s not really the point. I will give credit to...
Cameroid - Take photos with your webcam online! →
“The NFL is looking to revamp its Internet strategy in a move that would bring...”
– SportsBusinessJournal.com
Email solicitation
Today, I get an e-mail sent to the webmaster account from Bruce Rhone offering to pay the Chargers $50 to add a link to his site. At least it beats the link exchange emails we get all the time. The best part “We feel that a link to our site could add value to both yours and ours.” What about paying me $50 to post it on this blog? It would cover my hosting. Send me a check and the link will go...
Sling Media partners with NHL
It will be intersting to see if other leagues follw the NHL’s lead. One thing to note this services has yet to be launched and if it highly restricted on who the user can share the video with I’m not sure it will catch on. Being a Slingbox user I’ll be the first to test it out.
NHL, Sling Media partner on clip-sharing service
Sling’s “Clip Sling” service, slated to launch later this summer,...
Chron.com tries to avoid breaking NFL 45-second...
The Houston Chronicle’s blog pokes fun of the new NFL 45-second rule. Even funnier it appears the Texans are more than willing to help the newspaper accomplish this jab at the NFL. Funny stuff!
(via Geek, Sports and Nonsense! - Joel Price)
Joel Price: Recommendation on a good crash course...
Joel Price: Recommendation on a good crash course on RSS? (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Are you doing RSS well? Most are not
As we all fight to stay on top of the latest and greatest web technology. I wonder all time if I’m doing it right or just pushing it out the door to say “I’ve done it.” For example this study shows top news sites that have RSS feeds are not doing it well. The study concludes a user is better off using Google news then subscribing to a RSS feed. One RSS feed that drives me crazy is the U-T’s sports...
Joel Price: Had the forums updated to vBulletin...
Joel Price: Had the forums updated to vBulletin 3.6.7 (via Twitter / Joel Price)
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