NEW YORK — Alexa: May I have another beer? Imagine a future in-arena suite experience where Alexa by Amazon, through the Echo smart speaker, could take your beer or food order, communicate it to the kitchen staff and have it delivered to your seat within minutes. You wouldn’t have to open your phone and click […]
Disseminating high school sports scores has always been a chore — that is until ScoreStream came along. Since its founding in 2012, the company has worked to find new ways of getting you local high school scores. It has established relationships with the Associated Press, Snapchat and a slew of local newspapers, restaurants, TV and radio […]
A newly-launched nonprofit is seeking to solve a dilemma faced by the many sports fans weighing whether to cut the cable cord: it’s offering to stream local broadcast stations in high definition to users’ smartphones for free. That includes the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Locast.org, founded by longtime communications attorney and Sports Fans Coalition chairman […]
High school sports are steadily coming back to the fore of America’s consciousness. Summer travel teams are packing up their equipment for the long school year ahead. And in the midst of all of this, SI Play is expanding its audience and becoming an all-in-one youth sports management platform. The Time Inc.-backed youth sports venture […]
The Walt Disney Company announced plans on Tuesday to acquire a majority stake in BAMtech, a technology and video streaming company previously owned by MLBAM, for $1.58 billion. As part of the deal, Disney said it will launch an ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018 and a new Disney-branded direct-to-consumer Netflix-like streaming service […]
