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 […]
YouTube announced Tuesday it is entering live television. For cord cutters and cord shavers, the Google-owned video entity will be offering select TV channels for $35 a month, including sports stations ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN News, SEC Network, NBC Sports Network, BTN, FS1 and FS2. Get The Latest Sports Tech News In Your Inbox! […]
(USA TODAY Sports Images) First thing’s first, the National Football League is in a class of its own and cannot be viewed through the same lenses as the NBA, MLB, or NHL. Unlike the aforementioned, the NFL is not a professional sports league; but a cultural empire that dominates the nation’s consciousness for six months a year. It is an empire that was built on television ratings. So after nearly a half of an NFL season’s worth of Thursday Night Football games produced less than impressive ratings on the NFL Network, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the NFL has begun to explore the idea of expanding Thursday Night Football to an online media outlet such as Google or...
