NBC Sports Digital celebrates its BEST YEAR EVER in 2016, highlighted by 15,000 hours of streaming coverage of more than 10,000 events, including the biggest digital media event in history - the 2016 Rio Olympic Games; setting a new sports category record by reaching 110 million uniques in August; launching new products such as end-to-end technology service Playmaker Media and direct-to-consumer streaming service NBC Sports Gold; and acquiring youth sports transactional business SportsEngine.
The NBC Sports App on Connected TVs: This year, the NBC Sports app widened its Connected TV distribution and became available satellite and telco subscribers with select Samsung devices, as well as on Amazon Fire, Chromecast, Roku, Win10, and Xbox. Users with these devices joined Apple TV, Roku, Apple iOS and Android users in receiving access to the vast portfolio of premier sports events streamed on the NBC Sports app. NBC SPORTS SCORES app: Built off the NBC Olympics: Rio News & Results app, NBC Sports Digital launched the NBC SPORTS SCORES app after Rio. It's a personalized sports guide that delivers the most up-to-date scores, notifies fans of important upcoming events or moments in sports, and contains on-demand news and information from more than 25 leagues. ProFootballTalk: In June, NBC Sports Digital extended its multi-platform partnership with ProFootballTalk, the innovative, NFL-focused football website created by Mike Florio. As part of the new long-term extension, ProFootballTalk increased video content, with Florio providing daily, short- form video reports to supplement PFT's extensive written coverage on breaking NFL news. As a result, ProFootballTalk is approaching 10 million video starts during the course of the current NFL season.Videos