Monday Sports Segment
We premiere a new feature today, a look at sports and social TV.
Monday Social TV Sports
Opening Day
After Sunday’s Opening Night action, baseball returns in earnest Monday, Tuesday
The action got under way on Sunday night when the Astros made their American League debut a winning one, beating the Texas Rangers, 8-2, at Minute Maid Park. It continues on Monday with 12 matchups and goes into Tuesday, when six more teams lift the lid on their 2013 campaigns.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130330&content_id=43555342&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
MLB’s Fan Cave
Follow the folks who will be following baseball all season long from Manhattan digs.
http://mlb.mlb.com/fancave/blog.jsp#fbid=17oUH0HO4Ul
A Space-Age Device for Delivering a Universe of Data to Baseball Fans
Mission Control is inspired by imagery from control rooms seen in the early days of space flight and created by Breakfast, a company known for masterminding experiences that connect the digital and physical worlds, It took six weeks to construct, one week to install at the MLB Fan Cave and then one more week was spent fine-tuning the machine, which processes a huge amount of information.
NBC Sports Radio Launches Live 24/7 Today
The NBC Sports Radio mobile app, created by Abacast, showcases a branded home page with rotating sponsorship panels and an integration system that syncs audio ads and rotating display ads–a feature that will help advertisers extend their brands. Among its many features, the mobile app also delivers programming content, Facebook and Twitter promotion, and a station information page linking to phone request lines.
http://tv.broadwayworld.com/article/NBC-Sports-Radio-Launches-Live-247-Today-20130401
San Francisco Giants ride Techball to the top
Within weeks, the Giants will open the first social-media cafe at their home, AT&T Park. Beyond the center-field wall, in what used to be a Build-A-Bear Workshop, fans will be able to sip Peet’s Coffee next to an interactive board with live tweets and Instagram photos. The Wi-Fi network will, as it has every year since the park opened in 2000, get faster and more robust. If all goes as planned, a new ticketing option will allow seat upgrades during the game.
http://www.lohud.com/usatoday/article/2013497
Basketball
Sports world reacts to Kevin Ware injury on Twitter with outpouring of prayers, encouragement
Famous faces throughout the sports world and college basketball used Twitter on Saturday to share messages of encouragement for Louisville’s Kevin Ware after he suffered a gruesome broken leg in the first half of the Cardinals’ Elite Eight victory over Duke. (Compliation)
Official NCAA Twitter feed posts Ware injury highlight before quickly deleting it
The official NCAA Twitter feed, @marchmadness, has been providing followers with quickly posted live highlights throught the NCAA tournament. Sunday afternoon, just after Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffered a gruesome leg injury in the Cardinals’ Elite Eight game, the feed followed suit by quickly tweeting a link to a replay of the injury, before quickly deleting the tweet.
Media
Game of Clones: SportsCenter vs. Fox Sports 1
Richard Deitsch Monday morning roundup
Hockey
Tradcentre ’13 Multiplatform Deadline Day Coverage
TSN hockey app and coverage plans for Wednesday (Canada).
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=419578
Nascar
Voting continues for Fan Driven 400
Walmart and Pocono Raceway have teamed up to give fans options like naming the June 9 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., and they can do so by visiting walmarturl.com/FanDriven400 on Facebook.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/voting-continues-fan-driven-400-130000261–nascar.html
Big Data
Automated Insights Using Big Data to Change How Fans Consume Sports
With this new insights platform, AI hopes to completely change how fans enjoy baseball games. Media companies can use these automated insights (hence the company name) to supplement live broadcasts in real-time by arming broadcasters with historically significant statistics and insights.
