Mobile ESPN to End Service Aimed at Sports Customers
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The company said it would focus instead on selling its real-time scores and video to existing cellular providers.
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November. He will write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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Sports cable channel ESPN will launch its own branded wireless phone service next year, the first in a series of branded cell phone services planned by The Walt Disney Co., which owns ESPN.
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ESPN Drops Yahoo Contextual Ads for Quigo AdSonar Brian Morrissey at AdWeek reports that ESPN has decided on dropping the Yahoo powered contextual advertising (think high profile Yahoo Publisher Network ads) from its ESPN.com site. According to Brian&#8217;s coverage, ESPN has decided on selling the advertising placements itself. ESPN.com will begin using the Quigo AdSonar system to [...]
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Since Dan Patrick announced on his radio show Monday he'll be leaving ESPN Aug. 17, rumors have swirled as to why he's leaving and where he'll end up.
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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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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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Sports media company teams with Sprint to offer a branded cell phone service.
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Sports fans will get another way to indulge their passion next year when ESPN launches ESPN Mobile, a telephone service offering everything from video highlights
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As promised, ESPN will re-launch its mobile brand through a major carrier, signing a multi-year exclusive agreement with Verizon Wireless. The feature will be available to subscribers of the company's V CAST service.
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The search provider has decided to end its music service, opting instead to send its business to Real.
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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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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN  sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile  phone service in a deal with Sprint Corp. FON.N intended to  lure new users with sports news sent over a next-generation  network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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After some hits and misses in creating content for cellphones, ESPN thinks it knows how to keep up with its fans as they go about their days.
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Walt Disney-owned sports channel ESPN is  holding talks with broadcasters in Europe about launching a  European version of its 24-hour U.S. channel.
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LOS ANGELES  - In a first for the U.S.   market, the struggling Mobile ESPN network is offering live and   complete football games for viewing on cell phones.
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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.