NASA is currently the epicenter of internet jokes and memes on social networks for the erroneous live video streaming of a Mars mission. Internet users are wondering how the space agency so wells manages to find water on the red planet but is an epic fail at fixing buffering issues. However, NASA has dusted off …
A baseball or hockey fan with a subscription with Rogers in Canada? As you must be knowing, next year is gonna be a rookie season to remember and Rogers has announced today that it will broadcast every Toronto Blue Jays game in 4K, and it’s throwing in 20 “marquee” NHL games in 4K to boot! We have …
Sports media company Perform Group is taking steps to launch a live streaming service, saying it is positioning itself to become the “Netflix of sports.” The yet-to-be named subscription product, which will launch in 2016, is an over-the-top service that will allow users in Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Austria to live stream sports games …
In an attempt to lure millennials back to television, Turner Broadcasting Systems will begin live streaming video of gaming competitions during prime-time on Friday nights next year. The network, which created its own league with WME/IMG as part of the effort, aims to reach the rapidly expanding audience for professional gaming—which was over 200 million worldwide …
Ever since IMG, which owns NYFW, began live streaming shows in 2011, viewers have been tuning in in droves. “Streaming has become an important part of how consumers understand brands,” says Matt Edelman, IMG’s head of digital operations and marketing solutions. “It gives designers remarkable reach to audiences and helps build trust. It also …
YouTube Gaming is over another hurdle in its quest for live streaming service supremacy (or to simply catch up with Twitch). Playstation 4 announced yesterday that the next software update for the console will include, among other things, support for a YouTube Gaming app and for live streaming. YouTube Gaming launched last week as a platform to …
CBS will broadcast the second through eighth Thursday night games. These will also be simulcast on the NFL Network. In Weeks 9-11 and 14-16, including two Saturday games on December 19 and 26 the games will be televised on the NFL Network. These games will also be simulcast by CBS in the participating teams’ …
Live TV streaming over broadband is a small-but-growing phenomenon, and the Internet is ill-prepared for the giant wave of data about to sweep over it in the years ahead. At least that’s the view of Akamai, a top content delivery network (CDN) provider that works with a wide range of programmers and distributors. Despite …
When Harvard Business School launched the online education program HBX last year, the idea was to reach undergraduates who might want a basic grounding in business principles by learning fundamentals like financial accounting, business analytics, and economics. But there was a catch. Initially, the courses weren’t live, meaning they lacked a core component of …
All the talk may be about billion dollar deals for the free-to-air networks to broadcast the AFL and NRL, but the digital future is already taking shape and, with it, a threat to the networks’ supremacy. One recent threat comes from the clubs themselves, which are seeking to capitalize on the interest and loyalty of …