Amazon has won exclusive rights to stream the ATP World Tour in the U.K., outbidding Sky Sports, according to the The Guardian. Amazon Prime will stream nearly all of the elite men’s tennis events with the exception of the four grand slams, according to the newspaper. The contract includes the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 […]
As another weak quarterly earnings report sends Twitter’s stock plunging, the company is attempting to assuage investor fears by playing up its 24/7 sports coverage as a last-ditch effort to grow its user base following the loss of Thursday Night Football to Amazon. Twitter reported 328 million monthly active users for the second quarter, flat […]
Dish Network has filed lawsuit against Univision over the Spanish-language channel’s plan to livestream Mexican professional soccer games, in English, on Facebook Live. The news site Cablefax wrote that it had seen a heavily redacted version of the complaint, which was filed in New York’s Southern District federal court earlier this month; the crux of […]
Netflix isn’t getting into live sports, and CEO Reed Hastings has a fairly simple way of explaining why an entertainment company wouldn’t look to do so. “Sports is really good in the moment. So you want to watch the game, but the afterlife of a given show is quite small,” Hastings said Wednesday at Recode’s […]
From its latest streaming partnership, Amazon is making it clear that it values sports and international sports, at that. Discovery Networks UK and the e-commerce technology giant signed a streaming partnership to bring major sporting events like the French Open, Tour de France and Olympic Games directly to Prime customers in the United Kingdom. The […]
