Twitter has live streamed its first Thursday Night Football game as part of its 10-game package with the NFL. For industry executives and a majority of fans, it was a success. Viewership numbers rolled in Friday and told a similar story. According to the NFL, 2.3 million viewers watched the Buffalo Bills-New York Jets game […]
NTT DATA Corporation and Rakuten Baseball announced Wednesday they will launch a virtual reality baseball coaching system in Japan that the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are scheduled to begin using next season. Could the VR system being used in Nippon Professional Baseball soon come to Major League Baseball? Rakuten, the team that MLB pitchers Hisashi Iwakuma […]
The “world’s greatest bar,” as Twitter is commonly referred to, had one of its biggest tests Thursday night. As part of a live streaming partnership with the NFL, Twitter will broadcast 10 Thursday Night Football games over the course of this season. The first opportunity to showcase the live NFL product came as the New York Jets […]
The NFL announced yesterday that it plans to spend another $100 million on concussion research and the development of new technology, including potentially safer helmets. The announcement comes four months after a congressional investigation concluded that the league improperly influenced a major government research study on football and brain disease. It also comes less than […]
ESPN has decided to enter one of the next frontiers in the sports industry: drone racing. The “The Worldwide Leader” which has been at the forefront of other non-traditional programming like eSports announced a multi-year agreement with the Drone Racing League on Wednesday. ESPN will have distribution rights in North, South and Central America in addition […]
