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Tackling Tech: NFL Game Change – Thursday Night Football & Beyond
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- Published on 27 November 2015
If you think Thursday Night Football (TNF) is the only opportunity the NFL has to change and expand its live game viewing options for fans, think again.
With the league's TNF deal due to end with this season and the addition of regular season games to be played across the pond in U.K. venues; the league is considering many game delivery options that won't disrupt longstanding relationships with its broadcast TV network partners.
Tackling Tech: The 49ers & Ntek Deliver 4K Football Content
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- Published on 19 November 2015
Though the days of watching live NFL games in 4K on ultra-high definition (UHD) sets seem far away, at least one team has invested in the cameras and more to shoot a weekly pre-game show as well as an original series created by an internal group of producers for wide scale viewing.
Tackling Tech: NFL Sunday Ticket Online - One Year Later
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- Published on 12 November 2015
After years of limited availability and unclear eligibility requirements that frustrated many fans, it appears that the light at the end of the tunnel is no longer an oncoming train but rather wide scale and simplified access to no-dish NFL Sunday Ticket online as promised this past summer.
Tech: A Closer Look at the NFL's Instant Replay Camera Work
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- Published on 05 November 2015
2015 is quickly shaping up as the year that defines the future of instant replay for the NFL. Why? Consider these two concurrent efforts:
Yahoo Scores a Huge Data Win from its NFL Game Stream
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- Published on 29 October 2015
It was really never about audience size numbers.
Whether you loved it, left it, or slept through it, the most important takeaway from the first global streaming of a live NFL game by Yahoo Sunday morning was the demographic, network performance and ad data collected during the event, which drew 15.2 million unique viewers from 185 countries.
Acing the NFL-Yahoo Live Game Streaming Test
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- Published on 22 October 2015
The NFL is calling this Sunday's first ever global streaming of a live game "a test." It's a historic one that the league and partner Yahoo need to score high on with an international audience watching to make a good first impression.
With that in mind, I've asked a hardcore NFL fan in France, Ludovic Boisseau, who watches games streamed live as part of the league's GamePass service (the international edition) to share his keys to victory for the event Sunday – and for live game streaming beyond.