live sports

Four live games on one screen sounds brilliant right up to the point where you divide a 55 inch panel by four. Each quarter is a window about 27 inches on the diagonal, and that is before you account for broadcast graphics that were laid out to be legible at full size. Anyone who has messed...

Someone put into words a thing I have been arguing with my brother-in-law about for two seasons: for football, the Atmos mix does more for the experience than 4K and HDR put together. Sharper grass does not stop you watching a game through a window. Crowd noise arriving from above and behind you...

Sky switched on a feature called Your Multiview over Premier League opening weekend, and it does what the name says: up to four live sports feeds on screen at the same time, across Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream. You can change the layout, pick which of the four you actually hear, and throw any...

Awful Announcing is reporting that ESPN hasn't abandoned the idea of putting the first hour of major WWE Premium Live Events on its linear channels, even though that hour went missing at SummerSlam. The stated reason is a scheduling conflict rather than a change in strategy. SummerSlam ran...

Seattle is running its preseason streams through Dolby OptiView with Dolby Vision this year, on the Seahawks app and on Seahawks.com, and locally over the air through KING 5 on ATSC 3.0 if you have a tuner that can take it. Press conferences and the other live digital coverage get the same...

The Guardian has Apple in early talks with the R and A about US rights to The Open Championship. NBC has had it since 2017, when it outbid ESPN on a twelve year package, with coverage shared out to Golf Channel under Versant. That deal runs to 2028 and the formal tender opens early next year...

Cox Media Group takes over as the Magic's local TV partner from 2026-27, and games land on WRDQ-TV 27 in Orlando with some on WFTV Channel 9. Jacksonville gets Action Sports Jax TV on WJAX 47.2, plus a few on CBS47 and FOX30. Free with an antenna, no regional sports network bill. The Hornets did...

The Guardian reported preliminary talks between Apple and the R and A over US rights to The Open, with the current NBC arrangement running to 2028 and a formal tender opening early next year. My reaction is not excitement. We have seen this movie. Apple signed a ten year, two and a half billion...

Formula E has signed a multi-year deal making Disney+ its global streaming home from the 2026-27 season, across 144 territories, with ESPN and ESPN+ handling the US. Every race weekend is included, practice and qualifying as well as the races, plus on-demand replays and the usual...

Apple put out the September Friday Night Baseball schedule and buried the interesting part in it. The Red Sox at Yankees game on August 28 is the first Friday Night Baseball carried live in Apple Immersive on Vision Pro. Angels at Pirates on September 4 and Giants at Dodgers on September 18 get...

Spectrum Sports Hawaii has shut down, and the reason is the interesting part. University of Hawaii athletics moved to Hawaii News Now from July 1 under a four year deal, with primary telecasts on K5. Free, over the air, statewide. The deal guarantees at least 110 home events a year, all...

This one is doing the rounds and the headline is wrong in a way worth flagging, because the real number is still interesting. The research comes from All About Cookies, surveying 1,000 US adults. The finding is that one quarter of VPN users have used a VPN to watch live sports, including...