Vivid Seats will not be in NFL Ticket Exchange; others expected to join
Vivid Seats has withdrawn from its preliminary arrangement to join the NFL Ticket Exchange after talks ended between the two sides in the last few weeks.
Thuuz Sports Expands Into Automated Sports Video Highlights
California-based tech startup Thuuz Sports is expanding from its original legacy business of measuring excitement levels for live games into automated sports video highlights production. Leveraging its automated technology, the company last year tested various efforts with Fox Sports during coverage...
Global Sports Outlets Will Invest More Than $6.8B In OTT Tech By '21
Deltatre has developed a new research study projecting that more than $6.8B will be invested by global sports content distributors in OTT technology by ’21, representing 15% of their total budgets. The study also shows that $39 is a monthly cut-off point in what consumers are willing to spend for OT...
Manfred: '26 MLB All-Star Game Defied Typical Bid Process
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred today said the league’s typical process of awarding All-Star Games “went out the window” with the move to award the '26 game to the Phillies. Manfred has sought to make competitive bidding and sequential awarding of All-Star Games key tenets of his tenure since his '14 e...
Armed Forces Day Added To MLB's Holiday Uniforms Slate
MLB on Friday is unveiling its ’19 set of holiday and special event uniforms, continuing special commemorations for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and July 4th that have been held in recent years. One difference is this year’s set will include a recognition of Armed Forces Day on May 18 to honor militar...
Ichiro's Opening Day Farewell A Home Run For Viewers In Japan
MLB said the March 21 Mariners-A’s game at the Tokyo Dome that was the final game for Ichiro Suzuki attracted 2.4 million TV households in Japan, representing the league’s most-watched game of any type in the country since the ’04 Opening Series that was also played in Tokyo. The total is additional...
MLB Signs Perform As Another Authorized Data Distributor
MLB has struck a data partnership with Perform in which the company has gained non-exclusive rights as an authorized data distributor for the league to sports betting operators in the U.S. The agreement is MLB’s second data deal to service sports betting operators following one the league finalized ...
Judge Rules MASN Dispute Can Head To Arbitration Association
A New York state judge today ruled the Orioles can have their MASN profit distributions dispute heard by the American Arbitration Association and formally blocked a move by the Nationals to have this part of the ongoing dispute resolved by MLB. Judge Barry Ostrager of the state’s Supreme Court said ...
MASN Case Takes Turn As Orioles, Nats Feud Over RSN's Profits
The long-running MASN dispute between the Orioles and Nationals has hit another flashpoint as the two clubs have now added a legal skirmish over profit distributions from the RSN to the existing one surrounding rights fees that has been ongoing for nearly eight years. The Orioles-controlled MASN has...
