TV Sports: Made-for-TV Tale: The Exclusive Rights That Werenât
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How and when All-Star Game rosters should be released are concerns that led M.L.B. to tell ESPN that they could not use a studio set at AT&T Park for âBaseball Tonightâ and âSportsCenter.â
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This is not original reporting. All facts have been gathered from ESPN, the Associated Press, Fox Sports Net, The Indianapolis Star, and The Washington Post.
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Should we be able to watch the football how we want? Ofcom has launched an investigation today into whether consumers are being harmed by Sky's movie and sport rights-buying supremacy.â¦
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The NFL Network will be broadcasting the Patriotsâ pursuit of regular-season perfection to television viewers who are aware of the channel largely because they cannot see it.
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Plans to ease licensing restrictions would have won company plenty of fans, so why did it reverse course at the last minute? There's plenty of head-scratching and speculation.
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Not many did. The FCC, ABC, CBS and NBC all seem to agree democracy works best when no one is watching. One hour a night -- and not a moment on opening night.
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But keep that movie or game a week too long, and you&#39;ll own it (but can return it, for a fee). By MARK ALBRIGHT, Times Staff Writer.
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November, to write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and to 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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When it comes to time, it's all about perspective. Seven minutes of commercials will always seem longer than seven minutes of game action.
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Cricket&#39;s TV rights dispute has reared its ugly head again, renewing fears that Australia&#39;s tour of India will have to be cancelled.
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In a new twist to the telecast-rights battle, the Bombay High Court has observed that technically both Zee Network and ESPN-Star Sports would not be qualified to get the rights.
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Company rolls the dice on a broadcasting venture. Is it a smart move, or a hasty jump into a fad?
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Sometimes you have to wonder what the geniuses at the major network sports divisions are imbibing or inhaling when they make critical decisions about what we watch.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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I'm sorry to see that my blog entry on recent controversies over freedom turned into a thread about TiVo. But since TiVo seems to be such a hot button, I would like to address that issue directly. I made the point in the discussion that TiVo did not license its hardware under the GPL (duh, GPL is a software license, after all), or even a GPL-like license.  So all the fuss about what rights you have with respect to TiVo hardware is nonsense.  Sure, you have the right to modify the hardware because you bought it.  But you will void your warranty, and TiVo is under no obligation to provide you with the schematic, BIOS, or anything else to make it easy to modify the hardware.  Having said that, let's cut through all the posturing about what rights we have, and get to the real issue here, which is what motivated TiVo to use a digital signature, and what would motivate people to modify the TiVo software and run the modified version on a TiVo box.
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Negotiation is nearing its final stage for an international treaty that would give broadcasters control over who records or transmits their signal. Broadcasters back the treaty, but digital rights advocates worry it could set an ominous precedent. By Wendy Grossman.
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The good part about postseason baseball on TV: The games mean everything. But viewing comes at a price because the networks have taken over, and they call the shots. That means, far from adding to the viewing pleasure, so far, the postseason has been taking away.