Nascar adds LiveLike interactive audience experience

Features including polls, predictions, a cheer meter, emoji sliders, and alerts will be available Nascar has added interactive audience engagement features to its app for the 2021 season. The organisation is working with LiveLike to provide interactive features such as polls, predictions, a cheer meter, emoji sliders, and alerts through the live sections of its […]

LaLiga sell SmartBank second division rights in UK & Ireland for first time

Three matches a week will be available on the LiveScore app Mobile app LiveScore has agreed stream three LaLiga SmartBank matches a week, free-to-air. This is the first time that the rights for the Spanish second division have been sold in the UK and Ireland. LiveScore is also a global sponsor of the top division, […]

COMMENT: Is your business ready for ‘The Great Compression’ of 2021?

Jean-Baptiste Lapeyre, Specialist at Rakuten DX, takes us through the opportunities and potential pitfalls ahead in 2021. Whether you’re a sports fan or not, 2021 is a business opportunity that is simply too big to miss. If you think about it, we’re squeezing two years’ worth of sporting events into one – you could call […]

Podcast: BT Sport and EE on BT Sport’s new Match Day Experience

Jamie Hindhaugh, COO at BT Sport and Sam Kemp at EE join Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton to talk about BT Sport’s innovative Match Day Experience features. Last month BT Sport rolled out the Match Day Experience on its app – a collection of complementary tools that enhance live matches with a series of immersive […]

LaLiga unveils LaLiga Xtra app with exclusive content and fan experiences

The subscription service will initially be available in the Middle East and Africa, before a global roll out. LaLiga has launched subscription-based mobile platform, LaLiga Xtra, offering fans exclusive content and ‘experiences.’ LaLiga Xtra’s content includes videos, images, articles and infographics as well as upcoming fixtures and in-depth player and club info. Users can also […]

DAZN launches worldwide for £1.99 a month, with high-profile boxing schedule

The sports OTT platform will now be available in more than 200 countries and territories. Sports streamer DAZN launches in more than 200 countries and territories today. It will cost an ‘initial’ monthly price of £1.99 or less and focuses on live world championship boxing and on-demand original programming. The content coming up on the […]

Dolby Atmos immersive audio comes to Premier League games on the BT Sport app

Immersive audio streams of Premier League matches via the BT Sport app begin on Saturday and will continue for all BT Sport’s midday Saturday kick offs. The BT Sport app will begin streaming weekly Premier League matches in Dolby Atmos, starting with the 12:30pm Brighton v Liverpool match on Saturday (28 November). Dolby Atmos immersive […]

OneFootball to broadcast Bundesliga matches for free in Brazil

Football app picks up the rights to air the German league to Brazilian football fans. The 2020/21 season of Bundesliga will be broadcast for free in Brazil exclusively by OneFootball. The OTT service will broadcast all Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 games for the next three seasons via the OneFootball app, up to and including the […]

BT Sport app rolled out to Fire TV, Android TV and Roku devices

The app can now be added to 4K-capable Fire TV and Roku devices for 4K HDR streaming of sports. The BT Sport app is now available on Fire TV, Android TV, Roku streaming players and Roku TV models, for the first time. This adds to its existing availability on Samsung smart TV, NOW TV, Sony […]

LiveScore extends free-to-air football coverage for 2020/21 season

The full list of football matches for the next season on LiveScore is below. Sports streamer and real-time sports updates service LiveScore has added to its free-to-air live streaming rights for the 2020-21 football season. In an agreement with rights holder, Premier Sports, LiveScore will stream 306 matches from Italy’s 2020-21 Serie A campaign for […]

BT Sport unveils £25/month Monthly Pass for Now TV

The pay-as-you-go option has been launched in time for the return of BT Sport’s Premier League matches at the weekend. BT Sport has launched a BT Sport Monthly Pass for Now TV devices. It costs £25 per month and enables owners of Now TV devices to watch BT Sport on a month-by-month basis. Existing BT […]

Optus Sport to show all remaining Premier League games

The broadcaster will show the return of the Premier League and also unveil a new OTT app. Australia’s Optus Sport is showing all 92 remaining live games of the 2019/20 Premier League season. In common with many other broadcasters screening live matches being played in empty stadiums, fans will have the option to watch games […]

Sky Sports and BT Sport unveil ‘watch together’ option to apps

Broadcasters both launch watch together services that will be available in time for the return of the Premier League. Sky Sports and BT Sport are both using the return of the Premier League to unveil new ‘watch together’ services. Sky Sports’ service is called Fanzone (pictured above), and will be available on the Sky Sports […]

SailGP reveals enhanced broadcast to be shown in 146 territories

It has teamed up with Whisper Films and others SailGP will be showing its second season in 146 territories around the world. In addition, the organisation has added analysis, graphics, app features, and more to enhance their broadcast around the world. It will be remote produced by Timeline from their Ealing Broadcast Centre, and use […]

BT Sport unveils enhanced video player for UFC fans

BT Sport has integrated its enhanced video player into its coverage of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) BT Sport has enhanced the way UFC content can be viewed via the BT Sport website and BT Sport app, through the introduction of its enhanced video player. Viewers of UFC will now be able to access full […]

Weavr esports project unveils first working prototype

Government backed esports consortium debuts mobile app at ESL One Birmingham Weavr, a UK Research and Innovation-backed consortium of companies spanning esports, education and entertainment, has demonstrated its first working prototype mobile esports app. Eight months after being founded in January 2019, the consortium has built a prototype of the first third-party analytics and viewing […]