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S.F.-Based Digital Sports Outfit Names Brett Favre To BOD06 / 18 / 13S.F.-based startup digital sports outfit Sqor has named former NFLer Brett Favre to its BOD. Sqor is a sports social platform that seeks in part to forge a niche with unfiltered, original content from pro athletes. The alignment was brokered in part by Favre's agent, Bus Cook , who also is c... |
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MLBAM Releases Spring Training At Bat App
MLBAM late last night released the Spring Training versions of its '11 MLB.com At Bat mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android platforms. Each app, priced at $14.99, will be further updated just prior to Opening Day, and carry through the '11 season. But within a matter ...
Showtime's Giants Series To Be In Docu Form
The upcoming Showtime series featuring the MLB Giants will be a "documentary, and not 'Hard Knocks' or '24/7'-type reality series," said team President & COO Larry Baer. The cable network and MLB Productions last month announced plans to run a series on the Giants this year chronicling ...
Tags: Media, Showtime, San Francisco Giants
MLG Signs Deal With IMG For Global Expansion
Major League Gaming has struck a broad-based partnership with IMG Worldwide in which IMG Media will lead global expansion efforts for the popular, N.Y.-based competitive video gaming league. IMG will pursue a variety of programming, distribution, licensing and marketing efforts for MLG aro ...
Active.com Files With SEC For IPO
Active.com, the San Diego-based developer of online participatory sports content and event registration services, has filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission for an IPO worth up to $150M. The IPO funds are aimed primarily at retiring current debt and funding future corporate acquisi ...
MLBAM Signs Fantasy Deal With CBSSports.com
MLBAM has struck an exclusive, multiyear partnership with CBSSports.com to include in-game player video highlights and live game audio into CBSSports.com's Fantasy Baseball Commissioner. The pact replaces a similar, now-expired one MLBAM held previously with Yahoo to insert baseball video conte ...
SI Announces Digital Subscription Plan
Sports Illustrated on Friday announced "All Access," a digital subscription plan in alliance with Google in which digital-only and digital-print combination plans will be sold for Android-based tablets and smartphones. The "All Access" applications will be priced at $48 annually or $4.99 per month f ...
CSN Planning Big Coverage Of Spring Training
Comcast SportsNet will send about two dozen digital and TV correspondents to Spring Training, the most in company history. The reporters on-site will be in addition to roughly 30 live Grapefruit and Cactus League games planned on CSN outlets. Coverage will be similar in CSN markets where t ...
Tags: Media, Comcast-Spectacor
SI To Offer New Digital Subcription
Time Inc. is expected to announce a partnership with Google to create a digital subscription offering for Sports Illustrated on some Android-based devices, according to sources.
MLBAM Marketing Subs For MLB.tv
MLBAM has begun to market '11 subscriptions to MLB.tv, its out-of-market-game package that is the flagship of its paid content offerings. Pricing has remained flat from '10 -- $119.95 for a premium-level version with elements such as home and away team broadcast feeds and DVR-type controls ...
DuPuy Rejoining Foley & Lardner Firm
Former MLB President & COO BOB DUPUY is rejoining his former law firm, Foley & Lardner, serving as partner with its sports industry practice in N.Y. DuPuy is also joining Evolution Media Capital, CAA's investment banking affiliate, as a senior advisor working on "opportunities across the s ...
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