UPDATE: the company officially announced closure… more details in the follow-up post, here. Exclusive: [by Rafat Ali & Staci Kramer] We have heard from numerous sources that MobileESPN, the ambitious…

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-- Walt Disney Q3 Earnings: ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment -- Some More MVNO Math -- MobileESPN MVNO Revenue Modeling Estimates -- Merrill Lynch Analyst:…

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We mentioned Mobile ESPN’s new plans to stream full-length college football games last night...more details now: it will kick off with Florida State vs. Miami, on Monday, September 4. Mobile…

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Mobile ESPN, the MVNO from Disney, is upping the stakes after a lackluster launch: it will broadcast full-length college football games on its service...it plans to carry as many as…

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Walt Disney has done its 2006 Q3 earnings call...the financial highlights are in this Reuters piece. Of relevance to mobile is that Disney sees “enormous potential” for internet and mobile…

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Jupiter Research analyst Julie Ask has done some back-of-an-envelope calculations and estimated there are 500,000 Americans looking for an entertainment oriented mobile device in any given year. Helio apparently wants…

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I’ll get in trouble for posting this, but what the heck...if they ask to take it down, I will. Anyway, following on the Merrill Lynch research note yesterday, asking Disney…

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Bear my hyperbole during this post, but that’s the treatment it needs: I think this is preposterous...even though ESPN’s mobile service MobileESPN has not done that well since it launched…

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Christopher Brush has joined ESPN as VP of marketing for its MVNO MobileESPN. In his new role, Brush will focus on the marketing and advertising efforts of the company’s mobile…

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Mobile ESPN has launched a new handset from Samsung, dubbed Ace. The handset has “a large QVGA display and stereo speakers...The user interface features easy-to-read icons that instantly link users…

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So discover WSJ, or they could have just read us...a front page story about the teething troubles U.S. MVNOs like MobileESPN and Amp’d Mobile are having, something we’ve documented in…

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Besides BestBuy, the MobileESPN MVNO service from ESPN, which had an initial exclusive deal with BestBuy, is now being retailed in about 575 Sprint stores in U.S. I would be…

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Queried about Disney’s MVNO strategy during this afternoon’s Q2 earnings call, Disney president and CEO Bob Iger admitted that initial results for Mobile ESPN were “lower than hoped”—prompting the change…

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[By Staci D. Kramer] The question from a colleague came up enroute to the Las Vegas Convention Center for Disney Mobile’s unveiling: Wasn’t Disney making a mistake by not including…

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Better late than never ... no understatement to say Mobile ESPN has yet to take off and one of the reasons—among many, including the high entry price for the Sanyo…

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Hollywood Reporter: A good round-up story on what hollywood studios, TV networks and other entertainment companies are doing for the handheld content market. Although there are’nt any proven economic models…

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Mobile ESPN is touting its content line up for the forthcoming basketball season...it includes: “Comprehensive scoreboards with game status information and real-time scores for every Major League Baseball game; State-of-the-art…

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ESPN is expanding its business internationally, targeting Canada, Europe and Latin America. “Mobile ESPN Publishing Worldwide distributes ESPN content to more than 200 handsets and 30 carriers in 20 countries…

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Big Pimpin’, they call it...at the Disney shareholders meeting today at the Arrowhead Pond near Disneyland, Disney-owned Mobile ESPN phone service and phones were on sale for 10 percent discount…

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[by Staci Kramer] ESPN execs have said all along that Mobile ESPN is designed for the hard-core sports fan and, as Walt Mossberg found out, they were telling the truth.…

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This year will see how successful the much touted MVNOs in the US will be… “The companies say that as the big national cell phone carriers try to gobble up…

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[By Staci D Kramer] ESPN’s push to sell itself to advertisers as a multi-platform company is paying off, George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports, told the UBS lunch…

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Already in four test markets, Mobile ESPN is working on six charter sponsorship deals said to be worth $350,000, according to Sports Business Journal. At that rate, the total for…

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