– Features include elegant new look and feel, speed-of-light access to breaking news, scores and stats, customizable alerts, and premium content from Sportsnet’s team of writers, insiders and analysts –
– Android app most recent in Sportsnet’s leadership in digital innovation –
TORONTO (April 23, 2013) Sportsnet today launched its latest digital innovation: the newly re-designed Sportsnet Mobile app for Android phones and tablets – available free in Google Play.
Designed with the serious sports fan in mind, Sportsnet Mobile for Android uses the latest in mobile technology, with the same look and feel as the recently released versions for both the BlackBerry 10 and iOS platforms. The leading-edge apps combine speed and functionality to provide greater access to stats, customizable alerts and up-to-the-second game scores from the biggest leagues from around the world.
Key features of Sportsnet Mobile for Android phones and tablets include:
- MySN: users can customize Sportsnet Mobile to fit their needs, including following specific teams, players and fantasy leagues simply and easily, as it happens
- Real-time alerts: provides up-to-the-second coverage on any game, including instant notifications of in-game moments like goals, touchdowns, end of a period, quarters, interceptions and more
- In-depth coverage: delivers the deepest stats, news, bios, player and team performance instantaneously, so users can manage fantasy teams with ease
- Horizontal Mode: allows users to see even more advance statistics on any player just by turning the device sideways
Sportsnet Mobile features a gateway to the fastest, most in-depth sports coverage on-the-go. The new functionality and enhanced user experience provides sports fans with all the latest news, stories and updates directly from their favourite sportsnet.ca writers, such as award-winning journalist Stephen Brunt, columnist Michael Grange, senior hockey writer Chris Johnston, Blue Jays Insider Shi Davidi, and many more – whenever and wherever they want.
In addition to the Android app, Sportsnet also recently launched its revamped website, becoming the first – and only – sports website in Canada to use responsive design. Sportsnet is also currently the first and only sports media company in Canada to launch a digital subscription video on-demand service. Sportsnet World Online provides sports fans with exclusive live and on-demand streaming of premium soccer, cricket, and rugby matches not available anywhere else.
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Sportsnet connects Canadian sports fans to their favourite teams and athletes, using five platforms: TV, Radio, Print, Online and Mobile. Sportsnet is Fuelled By Fans, and delivers storytelling on a local, regional, national and global level. The multiplatform brand consists of Sportsnet, sportsnet.ca, Sportsnet 590 The FAN, Sportsnet 960 The FAN, Sportsnet magazine, Sportsnet Mobile and the Hockey Central app on iPad and Playbook. Sportsnet is the Canadian leader in NHL and MLB television broadcasts and is home to 162 Toronto Blue Jays games, plus MLB Playoffs and the World Series. Sportsnet is an official licensed broadcaster of the 2014 FIFA World Cup BrazilTM and also offers an exciting sports lineup including the NFL, the Memorial Cup, Ultimate Fighting Championship®, Grand Slam of Curling, IndyCar, the Rogers Cup tennis tournament, and extensive soccer programming including Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, MLS Vancouver Whitecaps FC, CONCACAF and Canadian national team matches for men and women. Connected is the network’s nightly news program, providing regional and national coverage of the day’s events in the world of sports.