TBWA\C\D N.Y. President Gallo Leaves Agency
Another top exec at an Omnicom agency is leaving to join the National Basketball Association: Jamie Gallo, president of TBWA\Chiat\Day N. Y. , is exiting for a position at the NBA that could not...
View ArticleNew for Xbox: Look, they’ve un-mothballed WebTV!
Fifteen years after it paid $425 million to buy WebTV, Microsoft on Monday announced several new features for its seven-year-old Xbox 360 gaming platform aimed at letting users access the web on their...
View Article‘NBA Baller Beats’ tests skills and style with real basketball [with trailer]
Majesco Entertainment, streetballer Grayson “The Professor” Boucher , Deron Williams and DJ Skee are at E3 with "NBA Baller Beats," a game that uses Kinect and a real basketball to challenge a players...
View ArticleThe CW Wraps Upfront Deals; Turner Joins the Fray
The CW is the first network to finish writing its upfront business, taking in approximately $400 million to $410 million in advance commitments for the 2012-13 TV season. Volume was down slightly...
View ArticleLakers Beat Heat...in Social Media
The Miami Heat can’t win anything. OK, the NBA Finals are far from over, with the Oklahoma City Thunder only leading the Heat one game to none, but the LeBrons have already come in runner-up as the...
View ArticleTwitter’s role in delivering media grows with expanded Tweets
Twitter announced today that it will partner with a variety of online media companies to provide an enhanced version of “expanded Tweets,” which allow users to preview stories and videos linked to in...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: Kimmel Is Lifted to Late-Night Victory by N.B.A. Tie-Ins
ABC's all-out commitment to pushing "Jimmy Kimmel Live" during its coverage of the National Basketball Association finals paid off last week with the best ratings for the show in five years.
View ArticleNBA Social Media Awards are a first for pro sports [with full list of winners...
The NBA held its Social Media Awards, a first for any professional sports league, honoring players and teams who have made the most impact on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
View ArticleESPN’s live-streamed NBA Finals averaged 330k viewers
If you look at the NBA Finals viewing stats by comparing TV and digital, the temptation might be a shrug: the broadcasts on ABC averaged 16,855,000 viewers over five games compared with 330,000 unique...
View ArticleMiami Heat owner sues Google, blogger over ‘unflattering’ photo
In an act of childishness worthy of his championship players, a minority owner of the Miami Heat NBA team has filed a copyright suit against a blogger for posting a photo of him. He is also suing...
View ArticleTurner Sports and PGA Tour Digitally Part Ways
After six years, Turner Sports and the PGA Tour will move separate ways and end their digital partnership, effective at the end of the year.
View ArticlePGA Tour ends digital deal with Turner
The PGA Tour is ending its production partnership with Turner Sports and will take control of its own digital destiny starting with the 2013 season. Turner Sports has managed the PGA Tour’s online and...
View ArticleLin's departure to Houston already costing Knicks
The New York Knicks decision to let guard Jeremy Lin sign a free-agent contract with the Houston Rockets is already costing them money.
View ArticleYour logo here: NBA to accept ads on uniforms
The National Basketball Association has become the first of the four major sports leagues in the U. S. to accept sponsorships on team uniforms.
View ArticleNo, You Can't Have HBO GO Without a Cable Subscription
No, you still can't have HBO GO a la carte. During this morning's earnings call, Barclay's Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente asked Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes if consumer campaigns and increased...
View ArticleNuts for the Nets
In February, the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, Mikhail Prokhorov, appeared on a Russian television comedy show called Spotlight Paris Hilton, and offered a musical tribute to his co-owner, hip-hop star...
View ArticleTurner Acquires Bleacher Report
The San Francisco-based sports site Bleacher Report has been acquired by the broadcast arm of Turner for an undisclosed amount, according to reports.
View ArticleThursday August 30th Webinar – Big Data: Lies, damned lies or statistics?
On Thursday 30th August at 12pm GMT, Aly Richards (Idio, CXO) will explore the data which is becoming available and discussing what we have found to be truly effective and useful and what is just...
View ArticleVideogame players, the next Olympians?
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - It's not exactly an Olympic sport - not yet, anyway - but as the London Games drew to a close this past Sunday, thousands of professional videogame players geared up for an...
View ArticleKobe Bryant: NBA Champ, Gold Medalist...and Columnist?
Following in the footsteps of First Lady Michelle Obama, Kobe Bryant proves that the NBCUniversal shortlist for stand-in editorial talent is about as exclusive as it gets.
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