Disney's Mobile ESPN to close
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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN   cable sports channel said on Thursday it will shut down its   Mobile ESPN wireless telephone business operations later this   year and aims to license the brand to existing providers.
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ESPN is relaunching its shuttered cell phone service through Verizon Wireless, this time delivering its flashy feed of sports scores, news and video highlights through a top industry player instead of competing for subscribers with its own full-blown wireless brand.
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Mobile ESPN is back on  the line. After hanging up its branded cellular phone package  in September, the Walt Disney Co. is re-entering the wireless  business with a pair of deals announced Thursday with Verizon  Wireless and MediaFlo USA.
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Carriers will start shutting down the country's oldest cellular network, for analog devices, in February. How to know if you will be affected:
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NEW YORK &#151; ESPN is relaunching its shuttered cell phone service through Verizon Wireless, this time delivering its flashy feed of sports scores, news and video highlights through a top industry player instead of competing for subscribers with its own full-blown wireless brand.
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ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports, and Verizon Wireless, operator of  the nation's most reliable national wireless  broadband network, announced today an exclusive multi-year agreement to  deliver an unmatched ESPN mobile sports content line-up to Verizon  Wireless customers.
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The National Basketball Association said on Wednesday it has reached eight-year agreements to let Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and ESPN television networks and Time Warner Inc.'s TNT broadcast league games through 2016.
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Cingular Wireless on Tuesday closed its &#36;41 billion cash purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. , creating the biggest U.S. mobile service with more than 46 million customers.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Taking the bails off the ESPN-Zee legal wrangle, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suddenly cancelled the bidding process for the four-year domestic cricket telecast rights.
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Major League Baseball has  limited ESPN&#39;s access to Tuesday night&#39;s All-Star Game after  the network broke an embargo and broadcast news of the players&#39;  selections a few minutes after an exclusive, rain-delayed  telecast on TBS.
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By David Ranii, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 9--Sports talk radio station WDNC 620 AM, which bills itself as "the Bull," has cut a deal with ESPN Radio to broadcast the network's sports programs beginning Friday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Mobile ESPN is back on  the line. After hanging up its branded cellular phone package  in September, the Walt Disney Co. is re-entering the wireless  business with a pair of deals announced Thursday with Verizon  Wireless and MediaFlo USA.
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NEW YORK  -  Major League Baseball has limited ESPN's access to Tuesday night's All-Star Game after the network broke an embargo and broadcast news of the players' selections a few minutes after an exclusive, rain-delayed telecast on TBS.
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Sports fans rejoice. ESPN announced today that next year it will become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and launch ESPN Mobile, a mobile phone service specifically targeted to hardcore sports fans.
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ESPN will launch its own branded wireless phone service next year, the first in a series of branded cell-phone services planned by Walt Disney (DIS), which owns the cable sports channel.
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InfoWorld - Frontline Wireless, a startup that had planned to bid in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's upcomingÂ 700MHz spectrum auction, has "closed for business," a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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The network that has been the home of college football&#39;s four major bowl games since the current system for crowning a national champion was implemented in 1998 has pulled out of contract negotiations with the BCS.