| | | | | #1 ESPN To Livestream WNBA Games | | ESPN announced today that it will livestream 11 regular season WNBA games during the league's current 2017 season beginning next Tuesday with the Indiana Fever-Dallas Wings game. Future live game streams will feature such teams as the San Antonio Stars, the Seattle Storm, the Chicago Sky and the New York Liberty, said network officials. | | WHY THIS MATTERS: The WNBA-ESPN streaming deal comes on the heels of a three-year streaming deal reached last week between the WNBA and Twitter. | THE TAKE: MCN
| | | | #2 Net Neutrality Supporters Claim Identity Theft | | More than a dozen people who say anti-Title II comments were submitted to the FCC under their names even though they did not submit them or authorize them have called on the FCC to investigate and remove all fraudulent comments, which they suggest could actually number close to a half million. | | WHY THIS MATTERS: The letter's signatories were identified through Fight for the Future's comcastroturf.com site, which was in the news earlier this week after Comcast first filed a cease-and-desist letter against the site. | 4 TAKES: B&C | Consumerist | The Verge | International Business Times
| | | | #3 Facebook Signs BuzzFeed, Vox, Others for Original Shows | | Facebook has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators BuzzFeed, Vox Media, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service. The social network will pay as much as $250,000 per episode for long-form original video, and up to $35,000 for short videos. | | WHY THIS MATTERS: The social network is looking to establish its own original video service and run ads to generate profit. Facebook is planning two tiers of video entertainment scripted shows with episodes lasting 20 to 30 minutes, which it will own, and shorter scripted and unscripted shows with episodes lasting about 5 to 10 minutes, which it will not own. | 5 TAKES: Reuters | Variety | Salon | Fortune | Fierce Cable
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| | | | What's unknown is: Where's YouTube going to go? Where's Apple going to go? Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely. If enough of them decide they want to take over this business and they're willing to lose money to do it, they can just make as many shows as they want.
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| | | | Riding a Wave of OTT Options
By Mike Farrell, MCN
TPG Capitals agreement to buy Wave Broadband for a robust $2.36 billion could have some over-the-top implications going forward, according to the man who will be running the combined companies once the deal is closed later in the year. More
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