Amazon disclosed the season-ending viewership numbers for its 11-game Thursday Night Football NFL package and claimed victory over Twitter by average-minute audience. The numbers that Amazon provided to SportTechie indicated that the AMA tuning into NFL action on Prime Video for at least 30 seconds was more than 310,000, a number said to be 17 […]
NBCUniversal has acquired the rights to stream Sunday Night Football games to smartphones, expanding upon a previous deal that included tablets, desktops and connected TVs but previously excluded the primary mobile device consumers use to connect to the internet. Beginning with the 2018 season, NBC Sports will stream the games across all platforms through NBC’s […]
Twitch, the Amazon-owned social video service that’s popular among esports fans, is diving headfirst into the world of traditional sports with two major announcements this month that involve the NFL and NBA. On Dec. 7, the service began hosting Thursday Night Football games through twitch.tv/primevideo when the New Orleans Saints played the Atlanta Falcons. Then […]
The Apple TV app starting this week will support a sports experience that enables fans to keep track of games and favorite teams in real-time. Live sports in the Apple TV app is available as a free software update for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation), iPhone and iPad customers in the U.S., […]
After announcing in August that CBS was looking to launch a sports version of its over-the-top service CBSN, company executives expanded on that vision and divulged additional detail about the service on CBS’s November earnings call. The 24/7 live-streaming sports channel will be called CBS Sports HQ and launch “in the coming months,” according to […]
