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BallHype and ShowHype Acquired for 3 million

Posted on July 15, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: |

BallHype and ShowHype have been acquired by Future US. Future US is a leading publisher of special-interest magazines and websites and one of the fastest-growing media companies in the US.  With market-leading publications in the Games, Music, Technology, Action Sports and men’s and women’s special-interest markets.  Well, it looks like they are getting into the [...]

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Bleacher Report Finalizing Deal with CBSSports

Posted on July 14, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: , , |

The hits just keep coming for Bleacher Report.  They sure have some great deal makers over there.  Right now they are finalizing a deal with CBSSports.  Dave Nemetz and his team are doing a great job.  I guess their 1 million unique visitors in June gives them the leverage they need to do deals. 
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Sports Reference Launches Olympic Stats Site

Posted on July 12, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: |

From the people who brough you baseball-reference.com, they now bring you the most comprehensive Olympics reference site on-line.  The site provides information for every athlete, country, sport, and event in Olympic history, all packaged in Sports Reference’s easy-to-use format.
Olympics at Sports-Reference.com was created out of a partnership with Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans, and Arild Gjerde, [...]

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Espn May Take Over the NFL Network

Posted on June 21, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: , , |

The Wall Street Journal (subscriber access needed) is reporting that the NFL and Espn are in talks about ESPN taking over the NFL Network.  The Journal said one scenario would be combining the NFL Network and ESPN Classic since ESPN Classic has a much wider distribution and would bump its ratings.
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Wazoo Sports Gets $2 Million in Funding for High School Sports Broadcasting

Posted on June 19, 2008. Filed under: High School Sports, STN News, Sportscasting, Venture Capital | Tags: , , , |

According to Paid Content, Wazoo Sports has raised $2 million dollars to fund their expansion in high school sports broadcasting.  They broadcasted 88 games last year.
WazooSports.com delivers video content to the user over the Internet using the latest in streaming technology, combined with professional broadcasting technology, to ensure a quality Internet broadcast like traditional television [...]

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CBSSportsline does deal with MLB Trade Rumors

Posted on June 15, 2008. Filed under: STN News, Sports Blogs | Tags: , , , |

Previously we did an interview with Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors and mentioned that his site was the top free agent when it came to independent sports content on the internet. It looks like CBS Sportsline listened to us and has snatched up MLB Trade Rumors and featured them on their site. [...]

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Fox Sports Partners with the Bleacher Report

Posted on June 14, 2008. Filed under: STN News, Sports Blogs | Tags: , , |

Next week, Fox Sports will formally announce that they are featuring Bleacher Report content on their site. This is an outstanding example of “fan journalism” being recognized by mainstream media as a source of quality insight. 
 
Bleacher Report is thrilled that Fox Sports views this fan-generated as strong enough to be positioned alongside that of its [...]

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Yardbarker Partners with Fox Sports

Posted on June 11, 2008. Filed under: STN News, Sports Blogs |

According to The Sports Dollar Yardbarker has partnered with Fox Sports.  The Partnership will allow Fox Sports to pull sports content from Yardbarker.
This a great move by Fox Sports as they will be able to get a ton of new content at bargain prices.  Bloggers will just be happy to get linked up by a [...]

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RSS Feeds for Sports

Posted on April 27, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: , , , , , |

After reading a post over at Mashable regarding why more people aren’t using RSS feeds we started thinking about it and they are right. RSS is marketed horribly though we guess no one actually makes money off the RSS brand so that is probably the reason. For those of you that don’t know [...]

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AOL Buys FleaFlicker

Posted on April 27, 2008. Filed under: Fantasy Sports, STN News | Tags: , , , |

AOL has purchased Fleaflicker for an undisclosed amount of money. Fleaflicker had one solo founder, Ori Schwartz, who built the site from the ground up. AOL and Ori have both been tight lipped on the purchase price but according to Roto Nation the price tag easily could of been high six figures [...]

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