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Foursquare launches events, teams with ESPN
Foursquare announced yet another new feature today — users can now check into events, like football games, movies and concerts (but no TV shows, at least yet). The mobile app has partnered with ESPN to help power the sporting events calendar as well as provide news around the events themselves. Screen grab of a sporting [...]
ESPN launches live TV app, WatchESPN
A new app called WatchESPN has hit the iTunes App Store, and does what it says it does — that is, if you’re a subscriber of participating cable/IPTV company. Using TV Anywhere for authentication, the iPad and iPhone app streams live programming from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. No frills, just the stream. But you [...]
ESPN gives social media star Bill Simmons his own site
He’s known as @sportsguy33, the most popular sports journalist on Twitter with 1.3 million followers — even more than @espn itself. So it’s no wonder that ESPN is breaking out Bill Simmons’ page on ESPN.com to its own website. The yet-to-be-named site is described as “about 70 percent sports, 30 percent pop culture, with less [...]
ESPN3 breaks new ground with live BCS stream
If you didn’t have ESPN on cable TV last night, there was a new way to catch the BCS Championship Game: via ESPN3.com. While the broadband channel has streamed many games before, this game was arguably the biggest live football event streamed directly to TV sets, via Xbox Live and the brand new Google TV. [...]
Watch ESPN bowl games by waving your hand
Watching bowl games on ESPN over the New Years has become a new experience for many Xbox Live subscribers, especially those equipped with a new Kinect. In many ways, it’s a sneak peek into the future of watching live TV. We cut the cable cord a few months ago, so we watch ESPN3 on Xbox, [...]
