NFL to stream games to overseas fans with Yahoo
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The National Football League said on  Thursday it will stream a full season of live games over the  Internet to gridiron fans outside of North America.
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The National Football League is  planning to test live broadcasts of Thursday and Saturday night  games over the Internet to some customers of Verizon  Communications Inc.  and DirecTV Group Inc , NFL  Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.
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The New York Giants will face the Miami Dolphins at London's Wembley Stadium this year in the first regular season NFL game to be played outside North America, commissioner Roger Goodell announced Friday.
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Sport: Top teams clash at home of English football as US game seeks a global audience.
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The NFL Network yesterday spurned as a âgimmickâ Time Warner Cableâs proposal to offer the league-owned channelâs eight regular-season games on pay-per-view. Time Warner said the league could have set the price and collected the revenue from the service. Robert D. Marcus, a senior executive vice president of Time Warner Cable, wrote to the network saying that the proposal would guarantee that âno interested fan is unable to watch these games on our systems.â The network and Time Warner have been unable to reach an agreement for full-time coverage of the channel on digital basic. In a letter to Time Warner, Steve Bornstein, the president of the network, wrote, âUnfortunately, it seems that TWCâs content acquisition department cannot grasp that the NFL Network is more than eight games.â.
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On Thanksgiving, the NFL will air the first of eight live pro football games on its own network. But it won't be available to many viewers across the country because the league hasn't reached carriage agreements with several major cable operators.
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Yahoo says the acquisition of Rivals.com will expand the community offerings and open publishing capabilities of Yahoo Sports.
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The NFL will air the first of eight live pro football games on its own network on Thanksgiving. But they won't be available to many viewers across the country because the league hasn't reached carriage agreements with several major cable operators.
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NEW YORK  - The NFL Network said Monday it would accept Time Warner Cable's offer to carry the channel on a digital tier for a week beginning Christmas Eve.
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Yahoo Inc. plans a new integrated  marketing campaign in U.S. and overseas markets that includes  television, radio, cinema and online advertising, the Internet  media company said on Monday.
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The National Football League's choice of where it will play a regular season game outside the United States has been narrowed to five cities, one of which could be home to an NFL franchise in the next 10 years, its commissioner said on Wednesday.
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The National Football League plans to broadcast Thursday and Saturday games live over the Internet to some customers of Verizon Communications Inc. and DirecTV Group Inc, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.
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Comcast Corp. on Monday said it plans to launch the National Football League Network this month as part of a plan to bolster the operator's video-on-demand offerings.
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(InfoWorld) - On Feb. 5, at about 7 a.m. local time, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. For those of us living in foreign lands where football means a round ball, the NFL doesn't get primetime coverage. Despite growing up as an NFL fan, when I say "football" now to anyone except my mother, I'm talking about soccer. When I watch football on any given weekend, it's the glorious exploits of my beloved Arsenal Football Club I'm enjoying, not those of the New York Giants. During almost 11 years in China, I have slowly seen those vestiges of the U.S. unavailable here in Beijing disappear. The Internet changed the way we live overseas. Letters became e-mails. Amazon.com became the Berlin Airlift to the book-deprived, with CDs and DVDs following soon after. But regular National Football League coverage was one of just two remaining treats that eluded me. That changed on Sept. 13, 2006. On that day, I discovered Ben & Jerry's ice cream at my supermarket, for about $9 per pint. That morning, I watched an NFL game, live via the Internet, in my home. NFL Enterprises embraced the Internet for the 2006-07 season. Previously the NFL did not allow webcasting of its games, except for text and graphic-based commentary such as GameCast. But this year, international fans could buy a GamePass from YahooÂ to view games live and streamed, at either $249.99 for the season, or $24.99 per week. Apple's iTunes Music Store sold season passes for fans to watch their favorite teams, uploading each game after its completion. I took a different route. I downloaded TVUplayer , which seems to be a mass re-broadcast from a Slingbox MediaÂ device in San Jose, California. There was the NFL, complete with American sportscasters and commercials ("This is our country..."). I ignored that it was 8:30 a.m. and made popcorn. I don't understand how TVUplayer is legal, but if they ever become a paid service, they can have my money. ESPN and ABC disappeared midway through the season, so I lost the Sunday and Monday night games that I used to watch on Monday and Tuesday mornings, respectively, but Sunday night remained sleepless as I watched the day games. If living overseas teaches us anything, it's that in the Internet world, content distribution and licensing methods are grossly obsolete. I would have paid to watch the NFL live years ago -- but they wouldn't take my money. Cinema and DVD release dates seem equally ludicrous when you live in a market where they're meaningless. Piracy makes a lot more sense when you realize that the guy down the street can offer you "Casino Royale" on DVD today, but Hollywood thinks you should wait eight months. Next season promises to be even better for football fans here. On Aug. 8 -- exactly one year prior to the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- China will host to its first-ever NFL exhibition game, with the New England Patriots playing the Seattle Seahawks. But when the regular season begins about three weeks later, it will be first down and 10 on the Internet.
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Yahoo to purchase website geared towards creating online competitions.
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By Carolyn Shapiro, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 1--Hey, all you local Redskins fans: You can now watch your NFL team in high-definition on cable TV.   After at least two years of talks, cable television provider Cox Communications Inc.
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Yahoo Inc.  said on  Wednesday it would acquire Rivals.com, a site for fans of  college and high school teams, bolstering the Internet media  company's place as the top U.S. sports site in audience terms.