AI Play-by-Play Arrives as DCM, Marquee Back Translation Startup
Sunday’s Super Bowl was broadcast in some 30 languages around the world, an effort that likely required dozens of play-by-play teams and translators and plenty of…
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Giannis Antetokounmpo Leads Athletes Investing $13M in ScorePlay
Sports media management start-up ScorePlay has nabbed $13 million in investor money from a swath of athletes and well-known investors, including NBA star Giannis…
Bill Maher Has Beef With NFL Games Airing on Streamers
Bill Maher misses when NFL games only aired on cable television, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The host of Real Time went on a long rant during his latest…
Tiger Woods Helps PGA Tour Unveil Forward-Looking Studio
The PGA Tour officially unveiled its new media studios Wednesday. The 165,000-square foot building in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., will help the organization expand its…
PlaymakerPXP Offers a Pro’s Call of Your Kid’s Big Score
Parental pride is going pro. A health care executive watching a clip of his son catching a touchdown in his flag football game last year sparked an idea: Why not…
MLB Trademarks Joe Davis Grand Slam Call ‘Gibby Meet Freddie’
MLB Advanced Media has filed an application to trademark the phrase “Gibby Meet Freddie,” the language of Fox Sports announcer Joe Davis’ call of the walk-off grand slam…
Sports Equinox Offers More Games—and a Modern Tech Challenge
Monday night brought the only so-called “Sports Equinox” of 2024, with MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL teams all competing. My issues with the term aside, the occasion offers a…
Range Media Gets Verance Investment for Sports Arm
Talent representation and content production start-up Range Media has gotten a venture capital investment from Verance Capital, a sports and media specialist. The…
Sports Stocks Plunge With Market Over Interest Rate Cut Fears
Volatile global markets have pulled in sports stocks Monday as broad concerns about the U.S. job market and what that means for anticipated interest rate cuts sent the…
Ex-Netflix Exec Bruce Daitch Joins OneTeam Board
Athlete rights commercialization company OneTeam Partners has added former Netflix and Dreamworks executive Bruce Daitch to its board of directors, bringing modern media…
NFL Sunday Ticket Lawsuit Could Change How Sports Are Streamed
One of three resolutions likely awaits the NFL Sunday Ticket lawsuit. The boring option—a legal victory for the NFL. Last week, a jury ruled that the league acted…
Sports Were the Life of the Party for TV. Now They Just Might Kill It.
The state of the pay-TV business is a bit like the winding-down phase of one of those off-campus keggers that you maybe recall from school, the undergrad parties where…
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