As golf’s royalty returns to Augusta National Golf Club for the 2011 Masters Golf Tournament, to be held April 7-10, Masters Live will return, as well, adding three online channels to television coverage of the major event, available via CBSSports.com and Masters.com.
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CBSSports.com College Network teamed up with Thought Equity Motion to offer colleges and universities the ability to monetize their video sports libraries using the latter’s Hosted Video Management & Delivery Platform.
Its 175 or so member schools will be able to: digitize and preserve master, broadcast-quality assets in enterprise-class, geographically redundant storage facilities; search, preview, clip, and download games in multiple formats from any Web browser; use a Web-based portal to deliver content to partners, broadcasters, and other third parties in seconds; integrate more digital content into their websites; support rich-media experiences such as the NCAA Vault and the ACC Vault with content from their digital archives, including play-by-play metadata indexing, search, and social and sharing features; and license content via Thought Equity’s global sales force.
College-basketball fans who haven’t quenched their March Madness thirst when Sunday’s one-hour 2011 NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show ends on CBS at 7 p.m. ET can squeeze one more hour out of CBSSports.com, which will stream Bracket Breakdown, a live show featuring analysis and predictions for the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
CBSSports.com original video host Jason Horowitz will host Bracket Breakdown, along with former St. John’s men’s basketball coach Norm Roberts, and CBSSports.com senior college-basketball writer Gary Parrish.
Once the brackets are announced, CBSSports.com will also feature four games: Bracket Manager, sponsored by AT&T, allowing fans to organize bracket competitions with friends and co-workers; Bracket Challenge, sponsored by Infiniti, where fans can compete against entrants from around the world for the grand prize, a trip for four to the 2012 Men’s Final Four in New Orleans; the Round-by-Round Bracket Game for Coaches Against Cancer, also sponsored by Infiniti, in which fans make their picks during each round, with prizes including computer tablets and the same grand prize as the Bracket Challenge; and Facebook Brackets and Pick 4, sponsored by Lowe’s, for members of the social-networking site.
Just days after buying Clicker Media and naming its CEO, Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive, succeeding Neil Ashe, the television network’s digital division must now replace its entertainment-division head, as Anthony Soohoo is leaving the company, AllThingsD reported.
Soohoo said in an email to staff that he was planning on leaving before Lanzone’s hire, according to AllThingsD, and CBS Interactive said it has no immediate plans to replace Soohoo.
Much like the Clicker Media transaction, Soohoo joined CBS Interactive in 2007 when it purchased Dotspotter.com, which he founded, AllThingsD reported.
CBS Interactive clicked on acquire and reached an agreement to buy Internet TV guide Clicker Media, also naming its co-founder and CEO, Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive, overseeing all of its operations worldwide.
Clicker, a guide to legal broadcast programming on the Internet, launched in November 2009 and boasts more than 2.5 million monthly users, as well as proprietary recommendation engine Clicker Predict and integration with Facebook.
Lanzone succeeds Neil Ashe, who came on board as president of CBS Interactive under similar circumstances when it acquired CNET Networks in June 2008. Ashe announced in December that he would leave CBS Interactive when a successor was named.
Prior to Clicker, Lanzone was with Ask.com from 2001-08, ending up as its CEO.
Listen up, literally: CBSSports.com will add live game audio and in-game player highlights from MLB.com to its CBSSports.com Fantasy Baseball Commissioner service under terms of an exclusive, multiyear partnership announced Monday.
Players will have access, at no extra cost, to live home or away feeds for all 2,430 regular-season Major League Baseball games, with no blackouts, and the service’s live-scoring pages will also link to in-game highlights for each player.
In addition, each MLB player page will contain a highlight compilation to aid with drafting decisions
GetGlue is going to the Grammys, as the entertainment-based social network teamed up with CBS to create three stickers that can be earned by viewers checking in to the network’s telecast of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
GetGlue also previously announced a similar partnership with E! Entertainment Television for its Live from the Red Carpet, which will air at 5 p.m. ET/PT.
YouTube head of news and politics Steve Grove spoke with CBS News chief White House correspondent Chip Reid about President Barack Obama appearing on the Google-owned video site after the State of the Union address to answer questions from YouTube users.
Grove told Reid 10 times more questions were submitted this year than for Obama’s first State of the Union in 2010, adding that, much like last year, queries about the legalization of marijuana and the president’s drug policy dominated. Video courtesy of CBS News Political Hotsheet:
National Signing Day, when high-school athletes declare their college destinations, is set for Wednesday, Feb. 2, and CBSSports.com and CBSSports.com College Network are ready to sign their letters of intent.
The CBSSports.com 2011 Signing Day site will offer continuous coverage up to and through National Signing Day, including braking news, video, and analysis by experts including Tom Lemming, MaxPreps.com national football editor Stephen Spiewak, CBSSports.com recruiting expert Bryan Fischer, and MaxPreps.com senior writer and columnist Mitch Stephens.
CBSSports.com will also rank the top college recruiting classes, provide a state-by-state breakdown of signed players, track major players who remain unsigned, and offer a match-up tool allowing users to do head-to-head comparison of any of the 2,500 players in the MaxPreps.com database.
The site also includes a player-commitment database with a dedicated page for every Division I recruit, as well as a page listing signings for each of the 120 FBS programs.
As for CBSSports.com College Network, its roster of more than 175 official athletic school sites will offer live streaming of press conferences, exclusive on-demand video content, features, and individual recruit highlight packages.
The feedback about the new anchor team on CBS’ “The Early Show” is filling up on the show’s Facebook page. Someone from the CBS morning news program posted this on the show’s page around 12:30pm today:
We appreciate that some of you in this forum miss the previous line-up. They are moving on to other challenges, and the new team is working hard to put on a great program every day. Thank you for following “The Early Show” on Facebook.
It didn’t take long for fans to add commentary — 99 at last count, some supporting the new anchors, but most writing things like, ” I have moved on to GMA now” and “I miss the old team with such great camaraderie..”
Earlier this month, Chris Wragge, Erica Hill, Marisol Castro and Jeff Glor replaced Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez and Dave Price. Fans have also set up a ‘Save The Current Early Show Team’ Facebook page, which boasts 1,400 likes and continues to update. By contrast, the show’s main Facebook page has more than 37,000 likes.
