NFL, Verizon plan Web game broadcasts
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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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By Jeffrey Flanagan, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 15--T he battle rages on between the NFL Network and Time Warner Cable, and the loser for now is clear: Any football junkie with Time Warner Cable.
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It should surprise no one if the NFL announces one day it plans to play two regular season games beyond Earth, one on Venus and another on Mars, both to be televised by the NFL Network. That would make about as much sense as discontinuing NFL Europe and then coming back two weeks later and announ...
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NEW YORK  - The week the regular-season   "Sunday Night Football" debuts, NBC Sports will transform its   Web site to include more fantasy sports and in-depth football   coverage with a new online editorial team.
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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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The National Football League on  Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television  networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games  through 2011 in deals worth a combined $8 billion.
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Verizon Wireless, preparing to open its network to devices it doesn&#39;t sell, will tell developers how to build products to run on its network at a two-day conference in New York in March.Late last year, the nation&#39;s second-largest carrier announced it would&#160;let consumers use equipment from third parties&#160;as long as it meets minimum technical standards for operating safely on Verizon&#39;s network. Verizon also said it would let them use any application on those devices. The move, expected by the end of this year, would represent a break from the traditionally closed networks of U.S. mobile operators. They typically sell phones themselves, with their own applications loaded, and only after dictating configurations and carrying out rigorous testing.Verizon&#39;s Open Development Conference, which will run March 19-20, will focus mostly on the requirements for devices that would run on the Verizon network, the company said. Verizon had said last year that it would publish technical standards for the developer community by early 2008. More information about the company&#39;s open initiative can be found here.Verizon&#39;s move was widely seen as anticipating the openness requirements attached to a part of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission&#39;s 700MHz spectrum auction, scheduled to begin later this month.&#160;Verizon is among the companies planning to bid&#160;on the prized frequencies, which are expected to reach longer distances and penetrate walls better than the cellular bands used in the U.S. today. Google, which has advocated more open networks, and Verizon rival AT&amp;T also plan to participate. Sprint Nextel plans to turn to third-party vendors for devices to run on its WiMax high-speed mobile network, due to launch in April.&#160;
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Players hope to connect their separate domains to form a 3-D Internet.
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Verizon Communications Inc. will use Microsoft Corp.'s software technology to deliver video services over high-speed data lines, the companies said on Friday.
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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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By early next year, viewers could be watching their favorite shows on their cell phones. Consider this: Fox is teaming with Verizon Wireless to create and distribute &quot;24: Conspiracy,&quot; 60-second
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In an aggressive bid to boost its broadband Internet offerings, Verizon Communications Inc. this week is launching a free service to let online gamers meet and compete.
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By Jeffrey Kelley, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 14--City of Richmond residents will be able to sign up for  television service from Verizon Communications Inc. by the end the month.
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NEW YORK -- The NFL has offered one free week of its network programming to two cable TV operators who do not carry the channel in hopes of breaking a deadlock.
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For those who tune in to the Super  Bowl just for the commercials, there's now a way to watch them  online shortly after they are shown, without having to put up  with all that football in between.
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Broadcasters are trying to persuade the FCC not to allow wireless Internet services in the white spaces of TV spectrum, plan ad campaign.
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Verizon Wireless it set to launch its mobile television service on Thursday. Specifics as to what cities will see the offering available at launch are unknown, although "many" major U.S. markets would come online by the end of next month.