1. The NFL network is also available on DISH Network and several smaller Cable networks, i.e. those not named Comcast or Turner Cable.
2. The NBA does have its own channel. NBATV is available on Dish Network and DirectTV. Not sure if it is available on all cable companies. Interestingly enough, NBATV was broadcasting regular season and playoff games before the NFL network started doing the same.
Otherwise, the breakdown is dead-on. The MLB games that are downloadable are of extremely good quality.
Greg Spira
· 2 years ago
Following up on the previous comment, the NBA TV network is available on most cable systems on their digital sports tiers. Though due to the anemic subscriber totals of most digital sports tiers, they would like to move onto digital basic. MLB will be launching its own cable network on digital basic and on DirecTV in 2009. THE NHL has its own cable channel in Canada and will soon be launching it in he United States.
Steve O'Hear (editor)
· 1 year ago
@Danny
Thanks for the clarity. I've edited the post with ref to NFL.
PaulM
· 1 year ago
this article is useless and inaccurate (see prev. comments). thanks for making a list of the official sites of all the major sports. I may never have thought to type NFL.com into my browser to find NFL related video.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows how to watch sports online for money, thanks for wasting my time.
Steve O'Hear (editor)
· 1 year ago
@PaulM
The post is designed to give an overview of each sport's Internet offerings, including but not limited to their official homepages. We hope the table of each offering was of some use.
Rajj
· 1 year ago
i love NFL, wow thanks for sharing the links which is really worthy to me... Great post, author.
Rajj
Daniel Langendorf
· 1 year ago
@PaulM
Thanks for the comments. Yes, typing NFL.com into a browser is obvious. It's where one starts. But what struck me was how each league was using the Internet and new media. The Web offerings were not just video highlight clips but branded content around anything the league wanted to show, really -- interviews, types of highlights, fan recommendations, and so on. And for that reason, the post evolved from there. At this point, it became apparent that each league is so immersed in the Internet and new media that they are supplanting traditional media as the first-stop information source, at least at the league level.
Michael Vu
· 1 year ago
Daniel,
Great post. I came across this on ReadWriteWeb and left my comments over there. I figured it's best to leave them for you as well:
Thanks for sharing this article, I found it to be a very interesting post. To say that the internet has replaced television for sports coverage is a definitely a bold hypothesis. However, I don't think it's quite there yet...
For sports highlights, the internet just can't be beat. But sports coverage is not just about the highlights, but about live coverage of the games...and that has a long way to go. It's still too expensive for the average Joe to watch his favorite team live. The day we have live streaming games free to the fans is the day the internet beats television for sports coverage. It's still up to the fans to decide how and where they consume their sports entertainment.
Im surprised that ESPN.com's video section wasn't mentioned. It's particularly intriguing because they are the only sports video portal that allows embedding of videos into other sites. NFL.com, NBA.com, NHL.com, and MLB.com don't allow embedding, but if/once they do, sports media will be primed for a big boom.
My partners and I have been working on FantasySportsMatrix.com (FSM), which is a sports media portal driven by a social network of sports fans. As sports media continues to become more fragmented, it gets harder for fans to sift through it all and find the hottest content. From main sports media outlets such as ESPN to individual sports bloggers, there is just so much content out there. At the same time, combined with the fantasy sports phenomenon, sports fans are becoming smarter, louder, and bigger than ever. FSM is striving to provide a face and a home for the sports community, and connect them in a way that's never been done before. We're in public beta right now and have a lot of exciting things in the works...
It's refreshing to see ReadWriteWeb and last100.com cover sports media as well. Thank you for that.
For soccer followers, you can gain access to live and edited highlights services of UEFA Champions League and other UEFA competitions via uefa.com, Europe's football website
Matt D
· 1 year ago
I like the article. I've never seen each sport broken down individually like this.
Sue
· 1 year ago
i love NFL,
This is great idea,thanks for sharing the links which is really worthy to me…
Michael Goldstein
· 1 year ago
The value of perpetuating a brand through new mediums is necessary if they want to keep a fanbase (market). By competing with their own products might make some people upset, if they paid large sums of money to also have the airing rights.
My name is Michael Goldstein, and I have been working on the same concepts of getting the brand name noticed, by offering content. Check out my companies blog STUN MEDIA ( http://www.stunmedia.com/whois/michael-goldstein/ ).
eddie
· 1 year ago
yea lost dan lookin good buddy
Ellen Kane
· 1 year ago
I am So Pist I can Not. Watch any of MY HOCKEY Games IAm talking about MY Philadelphia Flyers have been A Fan since 1974/75 season !!!!
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1. The NFL network is also available on DISH Network and several smaller Cable networks, i.e. those not named Comcast or Turner Cable.
2. The NBA does have its own channel. NBATV is available on Dish Network and DirectTV. Not sure if it is available on all cable companies. Interestingly enough, NBATV was broadcasting regular season and playoff games before the NFL network started doing the same.
Otherwise, the breakdown is dead-on. The MLB games that are downloadable are of extremely good quality.
Thanks for the clarity. I've edited the post with ref to NFL.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows how to watch sports online for money, thanks for wasting my time.
The post is designed to give an overview of each sport's Internet offerings, including but not limited to their official homepages. We hope the table of each offering was of some use.
Rajj
Thanks for the comments. Yes, typing NFL.com into a browser is obvious. It's where one starts. But what struck me was how each league was using the Internet and new media. The Web offerings were not just video highlight clips but branded content around anything the league wanted to show, really -- interviews, types of highlights, fan recommendations, and so on. And for that reason, the post evolved from there. At this point, it became apparent that each league is so immersed in the Internet and new media that they are supplanting traditional media as the first-stop information source, at least at the league level.
Great post. I came across this on ReadWriteWeb and left my comments over there. I figured it's best to leave them for you as well:
Thanks for sharing this article, I found it to be a very interesting post. To say that the internet has replaced television for sports coverage is a definitely a bold hypothesis. However, I don't think it's quite there yet...
For sports highlights, the internet just can't be beat. But sports coverage is not just about the highlights, but about live coverage of the games...and that has a long way to go. It's still too expensive for the average Joe to watch his favorite team live. The day we have live streaming games free to the fans is the day the internet beats television for sports coverage. It's still up to the fans to decide how and where they consume their sports entertainment.
Im surprised that ESPN.com's video section wasn't mentioned. It's particularly intriguing because they are the only sports video portal that allows embedding of videos into other sites. NFL.com, NBA.com, NHL.com, and MLB.com don't allow embedding, but if/once they do, sports media will be primed for a big boom.
My partners and I have been working on FantasySportsMatrix.com (FSM), which is a sports media portal driven by a social network of sports fans. As sports media continues to become more fragmented, it gets harder for fans to sift through it all and find the hottest content. From main sports media outlets such as ESPN to individual sports bloggers, there is just so much content out there. At the same time, combined with the fantasy sports phenomenon, sports fans are becoming smarter, louder, and bigger than ever. FSM is striving to provide a face and a home for the sports community, and connect them in a way that's never been done before. We're in public beta right now and have a lot of exciting things in the works...
It's refreshing to see ReadWriteWeb and last100.com cover sports media as well. Thank you for that.
Cheers,
Michael Vu
CTO, FantasySportsMatrix.com
This is great idea,thanks for sharing the links which is really worthy to me…
My name is Michael Goldstein, and I have been working on the same concepts of getting the brand name noticed, by offering content.
Check out my companies blog STUN MEDIA
( http://www.stunmedia.com/whois/michael-goldstein/ ).