“We anticipate we’ll have our live streaming games available on iPad in the fall,” NBA Digital SVP and GM Bryan Perez told our paidContent Mobile conference on Tuesday. Perez said the NBA is now ready to consolidate its mobile strategy, after initially rolling out a wide array of apps.

The World Cup is over—and the final digital numbers are in from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Univision, both of which made big plays for online and mobile viewers during the tournament; ESPN, for instance, live-streamed 54 of the World Cup games on ESPN3.com, while Univision streamed all 64 matches on…

We all have personal soundtracks. Mine started playing Maybe This Time soon after I got off the phone with the top executives responsible for crafting the Turner/SI.com deal between Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings Time Inc. and Turner Broadcasting—and for making it work. Not that Mark Ford, Terry McDonell and…

Before everyone had the AOL-Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) merger to kick around, there was Turner and Time Warner—the combo that was supposed to provide brilliant print, cable and online synergies in entertainment, news and sports. You all remember CNN/SI? Well, maybe not. After all, the plug was pulled on the…

Let’s hope broadcasters have got their CDNs in order - this summer’s World Cup is proving a genuine watershed for live online TV streaming. Look at these stats… —BBC.co.uk served a peak of 800,000 concurrent live streams during yesterday’s England-Slovenia match; Wimbledon was also streaming, but the BBC said the…

Over a third of visitors to the leading World Cup-related sites in the U.S. are going to Yahoo’s site, according to Hitwise, which monitors 10 million U.S. web users. Here are its numbers on a self-selected list of 15 such sites…

London 2012 Olympics organisers aim to make money from their online operations, including capitalising on a domestic commercial straitjacket around the host broadcaster. “It’s part of my department’s mission to be revenue-generating and deliver positive cashflow,” new media head Alex Balfour told the Social Media Influence conference in London on…

“It’s an appropriate time to compare what we’re doing against the World Cup,”  Alex Balfour, the new media head of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games said, presenting these stats to the Social Media Influence conference in London on Tuesday…

Former Fox Sports Interactive exec Brian Grey has left venture firm Polaris Venture Partners to take on the CEO post at sports content site Bleacher Report. Grey starts in July and be based out of the company’s San Francisco offices. Bleacher Report partners with CBSSports.com and produces co-branded online local…

It will be a while before we get the full stats for online and mobile viewing during the FIFA World Cup 2010 but we already know some of the highlights from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Univision—and a couple of moments ITV (LSE: ITV) would rather forget: —Online: More ammunition for…

Here’s how the 2010 World Cup in South Africa plays out by the numbers online… —Five million UK adults will watch matches online at home (source: Starcom MediaVest). —2.6 million will watch at work (source: Starcom MediaVest).

Introduced as the man who brought baseball into the digital age, Major League Baseball Advanced Media CEO Bob Bowman had a message to drive home to the audience at the IAB’s Innovation Days conference about how this era is evolving: content publishing will get more portable, and If you think…

With minimal additional investment and no extra hires, fan-based SB Nation is launching 20 new regional sports sites during the next few weeks. The first six went live after midnight: New York, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Arizona and DC, where the startup is based. The look is similar; all are based…

Fantasy Sports Ventures, which counts more than 600 owned and affiliated sports sites in its network, has now added popular sports blog The Big Lead to its roster. The NYT says Fantasy Sports Ventures is paying in the “low seven figures” to buy the four year-old site, which was co-founded…

Our six-month trial for Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) expired May 24—and the company’s flawed customer service may keep it dark. My own experience with Sirius XM’s efforts to convert trial subs that come with new cars into paying customers already if had me wondering if the company could do better…

In the age of transparency, one workers’ union leader has already ruffled feathers by tweeting updates from negotiations with employers. Now, some soccer sides participating in this summer’s upcoming World Cup 2010 don’t want their tactics similarly laid bare for all, including opponents, to see.

ESPN (NYSE: DIS), which has already notched more than six million downloads for its free ScoreCenter app, continues to expand its digital presence on devices with six new mobile apps announced at today’s upfront. Five are actually localized versions of the same one, a free ESPN Local app that will…

Roku’s 500,000-plus customers already have access to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), MLB.TV, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) VOD and MMA’s Midwest Cage Championship, among other channels. Now the streaming-video player, which has talked of a 2011 IPO, is adding the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which airs on Spike TV and Versus in the U.S.…

Verdicts may not be expected until next week on the BBC-proposed Canvas connected-TV standard - but home electronics makers are already bringing such devices to market, and this summer’s soccer World Cup in South Africa could be the boost the technology needs… Yesterday, whilst exploring Sony’s PlayStation Home virtual world,…