On Sept. 7, when the New England Patriots kick off the NFL season against the Kansas City Chiefs at Gillette Stadium, NBC will have its cameras trained on the field. But Fancam will have its own cameras focused on the 66,000-plus spectators packing every level of the stands. According to Fancam, the company has reached a […]
England’s High Court issued an order on behalf of the Premier League to require internet service providers in the United Kingdom to block servers illegally live-streaming matches. Such pirated content has apparently been rampant, with Kodi boxes and IPTV (internet protocol television) devices being used to circumvent the Premier League’s official broadcast partners. Sky Sports […]
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 […]
With the launch of a new app, fans of the Vodafone Warriors rugby league team will be able to livestream the game from the perspectives of the cameras spread throughout Mount Smart Stadium, where the team plays its home matches. The Warriors announced the app’s release on July 13, and it is available for free on iOS. […]
