“25 billion for a piece of the big cake? That’s wrong! You can not sell out football. Football – the most popular sport in the world – belongs to the people. #Fifa #Uefa @Infantino #FIFAWorldCup.” — Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter railing against the proposal by investors to pay $25 billion for the commercial rights […]
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Market Watch: Top five social content ratings (March 31-April 1)
1. LA Galaxy vs. LAFC, MLS (1,987,000) 2. Michigan vs. Loyola, Ill., NCAA men’s basketball (1,596,000) 3. Kansas vs. Villanova, NCAA men’s basketball (1,480,000)4. Notre Dame vs. Mississippi State, NCAA women’s basketball (1,129,000) 5. Houston Rockets vs. San Antonio Spurs, NBA (1,118,000)Data: TV sports events across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Source: Nielsen Social.
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Chicago Fire moves local broadcasts to new ESPN streaming product
The Chicago Fire became the first MLS team to entirely eschew a local or regional broadcaster, signing a three-year rights agreement with ESPN for 27 Fire games in 2018 to be available in both Englishand Spanish on ESPN-Plus, ESPN’s soon-to-launch streaming product. Fire fans will have to pay a $4.99 monthly subscription but it will […]
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Twitter to stream 24 Univision MLS matches in English in 2018
Beginning this weekend with the Real Salt Lake-LAFC game, Twitter will stream live MLS matches broadcast by Univision and made available in English in the United States. The agreement tostream 24 games is part of a three-year deal MLS signed with Twitter. MLS will also provide Twitter with a package of content each week. Twitter will […]
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Fox Sports will partner with Twitter and Snapchat on World Cup content
As video has exploded on social media platforms, networks are looking to expand their reach, especially to younger audiences. Fox Sports, which holds English-language rights to the 2018World Cup in the USA, will work with Snapchat and Twitter to provide extensive content for them during the tournament. FOX Sports will produce a 30-minute live show […]
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Fancy Bears, Russia and the World Cup cybersecurity threat
Cybersecurity has been an issue in our lives since the Internet took off in the mid-1990s. It became a central issue in the 2016 presidential campaign — from Hillary Clinton‘s famouse-mails to the DNC hacking — and introduced us to the term “trolling farms,” a key part of Russia’s efforts to manipulate public opinion leading up […]
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What They're Saying: Bruce Arena
“I’ve never been on Facebook in my life. I would do Twitter; they [federation staff] would have to do it, though. I wouldn’t do it. I don’t think it works for our president,even though he can reach millions of people rapidly. I don’t think it’s a good way to do business.” — U.S. national team […]
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What They're Saying: James Savage
“The Local’s staff neither wrote, published nor removed the article in question and The Local can therefore not vouch for any of the claims made. Our investigation so far indicates the articleappeared on a fake site designed to look like The Local, and never appeared on The Local’s own site.” — James Savage, co-founder of […]
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What They're Saying: Toon Gerbrands
“The behavior that Kok has shown online is so far from the core values of PSV that a continuation of our cooperation is impossible. This was a hopeless and embarrassing situation for him and forus.” — PSV general manager Toon Gerbrands after the Dutch club’s foray into esports blew up in its face when it […]
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Streaming: Fox Sports will air UCL games on Facebook
UEFA became the latest organization to start streaming on Facebook, teaming with U.S. broadcaster Fox Sports to air Champions League matches via Facebook Live — in English on the Fox Sports FacebookPage and in Spanish on the Fox Deportes Facebook Page — during the 2017-18 season. The breakdown: — Two live matches per match day […]