Walt Disney's ESPN cable sports channel said on Thursday it will shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone business operations later this year and aims to license the brand to existing mobile ...

Sprint got punked a bit when Verizon swooped in and scored mobile programming from the NFL, but they were awfully quick to hit back today with the announcement that they've just added ESPN Mobile TV ...

Mobile ESPN, which died less than a year after its launch, seemed like a good idea. Lease the network of massive telecom companies, go after a lucrative niche market--sports-loving 18-34 males--sell ...

ESPN's attempt to go from programmer to soup-to-nuts merchant in the mobile space has gone bust. The Disney unit said it would discontinue its Mobile ESPN service--a cell phone with abundant access to ...

Six months after pulling the plug on efforts to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), ESPN Mobile has agreed to make its video, game scores and other content available on the Verizon ...

Not really much of a surprise, but the ESPN Mobile cellphone and service plan is still in the hole. From Sports Business Daily, via our half-sister twice related, Deadspin: Mobile ESPN has lost $25M ...

Disney’s decision to pull the plug on its much-hyped Mobile ESPN cellular will cost the company $30 million, Chief Financial Officer Thomas Staggs said Monday. The sports network decided to call it ...

NEW YORK — A word of advice if you're fan enough to get the new Mobile ESPN cell phone: Spring for the extended-life battery. If you do, cellular sports nirvana may be within reach. If you don't, you ...

ESPN is relaunching their ESPN Mobile service, but this time it will sit happily underneath the Verizon megalords. One big possibility why the original ESPN Mobile flopped was because it was a ...

Mobile ESPN has decided to call it quits. They have declared that they will cease operations by the end of 2006. The Mobile network states that they will contact current customers with details and ...

For ESPN, the inexorable result of 26 years of feeding sports to millions of people and fueling fans' desires for ever bigger screens is surprisingly small. It is, in fact, really small, yet designed ...

BRISTOL, CT - ESPN digital media executives stressed that mobile is a key component of the sports network's overall multichannel portfolio of products and services and will only grow in importance ...