Over-the-top digital network 120 Sports aired the first episode of ‘The Rally’ on Twitter on Wednesday. It is the first daily interactive highlights show exclusively on the social media platform. Its partnership with 120 Sports is all part of Twitter’s continued push into live streaming sports content and disrupting the traditional sports viewing experience. No longer is the second […]
The Walt Disney Company has announced they are acquiring a 33 percent stake of BAMTech. The deal will see Disney leverage BAMTech’s streaming and over-the-top (OTT) services to help launch an ESPN-branded “multi-sport” streaming service by the end of 2016. Disney will pay a total of $1 billion to acquire this one-third stake. They will pay in two […]
We have extensively covered Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) here at SportTechie, and we have slowly seen it turn from just the online branch of the MLB to a behemoth in the world of online content, streaming and over-the-top content (OTT). The MLBAM has provided backend online service for organizations like the NHL, ESPN, […]
