Confirming a ten-year agreement, Amazon and NFL (National Football League) will begin their partnership from 2023 onwards. The exclusive streaming games to air are ‘15 Thursday Night’ football games and each year a pre-season game will air in the UK with the Amazon Prime Video platform. For the NFL this partnership will open doors for …
A new live streaming TV service called Philo has been launched and has been turning a few heads. Philo has a unique proposition with no sports and news content but is heavy on arts, home, and lifestyle channels. The service is a 35-channel package and costs only $16 per month. While most cable TV operators …
Subscribers of streaming video on demand (SVOD) are up 30% in Australia reaching 3.7 million at the end of June 2017 as per a new study by upcoming technology analyst firm Telsyte. According to Telsyte’s Australian SVOD Market Study 2017, almost half (49%) of Australian households either subscribe to Pay TV or SVOD services which …
Tonight the Off Broadway musical “Daddy Long Legs” will become the first show, on or Off Broadway, to live stream a full performance, free of charge on any computer or mobile device. In doing so, it’ll reap all the benefits that digital distribution can shower on live theater. Which are what, exactly? Good question. For …
Let’s assume that the Sunday morning’s NFL game between Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills was on TV. It would have been a soaring TV ratings hit. The real news is, it wasn’t. On TV. Yahoo, after its NFL live streaming deal, streamed the game for free, which we can see as a test drive to determine …
Amazon could eventually join Sling TV and Sony’s PlayStation Vue with the launch of its own live TV streaming service. The company has reportedly discussed such a product with both CBS and NBCUniversal. So far, Amazon’s video strategy has been all about on-demand programming; Prime Video, a perk of the online retailer’s annual membership …
England’s Football League, which includes the second tier Championship, is considering introducing pay-per-view live streaming service for their games for international fans. The introduction of new technology at the 72 stadiums across the three divisions of the Football League this season allows for real-time broadcasting from all games for the first time. “This technology would allow us to …
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 …