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ESPN is one of a dozen channels coming to Sling TV, a new live streaming service from DISH Network Corp (NASDAQ: DISH). Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) will also bring ESPN@, ABC Family and the Disney Channel to the service. USA Network (the second-biggest cable network) has not yet signed on to...

Earlier this week, DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) finalized a new agreement that covers linear networks and on-demand streaming content. The pact includes the launch of Fusion, Longhorn Network, ESPN, Goal Line and Buzzer Beater while also including the eight owned and...

Former Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO, Steve Ballmer paid $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. The amount represented a 400-percent premium on the next-highest price ever paid for an NBA franchise. Yet according to the Financial Times, Ballmer could receive...

Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) surprised investors Wednesday morning when the company announced that HBO Go, the online counterpart to HBO, would be available without a cable subscription in 2015. The monthly or annual fee has not been announced, but analysts expect a price between $9.99 and $15....

The National Basketball Association on Monday announced it signed a deal with ESPN and TNT, owned by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX), respectively, to extend its television deal through the 2024-2025 season. The $24-billion deal breaks down, on average, to $2...

U.S. stocks traded lower on Monday ahead of earnings season, which unofficially begins on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve will also release its minutes from its recent meeting on the same day. Major indices were trading in positive territory on Monday with the Dow up as much as 89 points before...

WWE Network (NYSE: WWE) has lost some of its luster after the highs of WrestleMania XXX. When the event debuted in April, WWE Network became the number-two live streaming site in the United States. As of April 7, the service had garnered 17.7 percent of all live streaming traffic (by volume)....

After a month of major announcements, the first week of July came and went without any Earth-shattering developments. This can be partially attributed to the holiday, but it may also be a byproduct of the numerous conferences that were held in June. Now that those are over, there aren't many...

The 2014 FIFA World Cup has become a temporary cure for ratings blues. On any normal day, ESPN's live video streams account for roughly 0.2 percent of all domestic video streams. In the United Kingdom, BBC Live accounts for roughly 0.8 percent of all video streams. When Portugal took on the United...

FIFA World Cup advertisers have a problem. Although the World Cup is the single most popular sports event on the planet, it features a game in which there are few opportunities for commercials. Soccer is played in two 45-minute halves, mostly without a break. Second, soccer is global. The...

College football has turned a little more digital. The former Beef O'Brady's Bowl will now be known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, ESPN Events and BitPay announced Wednesday morning. The game will be played December 26, 2014 in Florida. "It certainly serves to help further...

One of journalism's cardinal sins is “burying the lede,” the act of putting a key piece of headline-making information too far down in a story. Some financial writers are wondering if a recent ESPN posting deliberately buried the lede – when it nonchalantly dropped a big...

WWE Network (NYSE: WWE) is quickly becoming one of the hottest properties in streaming video. According to Dan Sahar, co-founder and VP of Product Marketing at Qwilt, WWE Network has quickly become the #2 live streaming site in the United States. As of April 7, the service had garnered an...

AT&T (NYSE: T) said it would join forces with the Chernin Group in a $500 million joint venture to create and launch a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)-style video streaming service. According to Gigaom this marked the first potential launch of an OTT TV service by a large U.S. ISP. AT&T is the...