Analysis for 'Fox Sports'

• VideoNuze Podcast #363: Interview With FOX Sports’ SVP Clark Pierce

  Friday, March 24, 2017, 10:40 AM ET

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  Posted by Will Richmond

  I’m pleased to present the 363rd edition of the VideoNuze podcast with my weekly partner Colin Dixon of nScreenMedia.
  
  This week Colin and I interview Clark Pierce, who is SVP, TV Everywhere and Special Projects at FOX Sports. Online delivery of sports has become a big driver of video consumption, as FreeWheel’s Video Monetization Report for 2016 highlighted earlier this week. As Clark explains, FOX Sports has fully embraced streaming sports, including 2 different Super Bowls, the World Series, multiple soccer tournaments, professional golf, NASCAR and more.
  
  Clark details how Fox Sports has focused on the authenticated TV Everywhere model for sports streaming to an ever-growing array of connected and mobile devices. He shares insights about how FOX Sports approaches delivery quality, with detailed modeling of live audiences. Clark also talks a lot about how FOX Sports is continuing to innovate the viewer experience, incorporating data, multiple streams, audio and much more.
  
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  Categories: Podcasts, Sports, TV Everywhere

  Topics: Fox Sports, Podcast

• VideoSchmooze [VIDEO] - Sports' Pivotal Role in Driving TV Everywhere's Adoption

  Sunday, December 21, 2014, 11:37 PM ET

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  Posted by Will Richmond

  This has been a significant year for TV Everywhere growth and no question, live sports has been the biggest driver. At the recent VideoSchmooze, one of our sessions explored how sports is playing a pivotal role in introducing TV Everywhere to millions of viewers and in turn, is creating a path to using TVE for entertainment programming as well.
  
  The session featured Brian Dutt (FreeWheel), Vito Forlenza (Comcast), Dina Juliano (NBCU) and Clark Pierce (FOX Sports), with Colin Dixon (nScreenMedia) moderating.
  
  The full session video is included below.

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  Categories: Events, Sports, TV Everywhere

  Topics: Comcast, Fox Sports, FreeWheel, NBCU, TV Everywhere

• FOX Sports Digital Taps YouTube Talent Pool to Find Next Big Online Show

  Thursday, January 30, 2014, 10:52 AM ET

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  Posted by Will Richmond

  FOX Sports Digital (FSD) partnered with YouTube to create the FOX Sports Digital VideoFest, a great example of how established media can tap into YouTube's vast online video talent pool. For the Digital VideoFest, YouTube selected 12 of its channel creators and brought them together for several days at YouTube Space LA. Creators were challenged to produce a pilot for a potential web series, with the winner chosen by a panel of 4 FSD executives. The Digital VideoFest was sponsored by Ford Fusion, with the winner receiving a $1 million development deal.

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  Categories: Indie Video, Sports

  Topics: Fox Sports, YouTube

• Are Live Sports Pay-TV's Firewall or Its Albatross?

  Monday, November 22, 2010, 10:24 AM ET

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  Posted by Will Richmond
  I've long assumed that live sports carried on cable TV networks (e.g. ESPN, Fox Sports, TNT, TBS, NFL Network, regional sports networks, etc.) would be a key firewall against cord-cutting since the games they air are unavailable online. In other words, if you're a sports fan, dropping your pay-TV subscription would be unthinkable. While I still believe that's mostly true, recently I've started wondering if it's possible that sports actually may also be an albatross for pay-TV operators, limiting their ability to effectively compete with online-only alternatives.
  
  I use the word albatross because pay-TV providers actually have very little flexibility to offer non-sports fans lower-priced packages that don't include sports-oriented channels. In fact, the most surprising aspect of last week's announcement by Time Warner Cable of a new lower-priced tier  called "TV Essentials" it's testing is that it will exclude ESPN, which is virtually unheard-of in pay-TV packaging. Because the underlying deals that cable networks have with sports leagues and rights-holders are so expensive, the networks try to get carried on the most popular pay-TV service tiers, thereby ensuring the highest number of subscriber homes (basic cable networks are paid by distributors on a per subscriber basis, so the more subscriber homes, the higher their revenue).
  

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  Categories: Cable Networks, Cable TV Operators, Satellite, Sports, Telcos

  Topics: ESPN, Fox Sports, NFL Network, TBS, Time Warner Cable, TNT