TW Brings Back Fantasy-Football Interactive Service
By R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 9/19/2006 12:23:00 PM
Fantasy-football fans in Time Warner Cable’s Green Bay, Wis.; Columbia, S.C.; and San Antonio and Austin, Texas, systems will be able to track their favorite players through the MSO’s Cable Fantasy Football Tracker interactive service.
The service, which launched last year in Green Bay (www.multichannel.com/article/CA6284304.html), gives fantasy-football players the ability to track their entire team’s roster with a touch of a button on their digital-cable remote while tuned to any channel.
Powered by BIAP Systems’ interactive-television software, fantasy-football fans will be able to input their teams via remote control and keep track of player performances onscreen while viewing another channel.
Time Warner officials would not reveal how many Green Bay system subscribers used the service last year, but the MSO said approximately 560,000 digital subscribers can currently access it.
Along with fantasy-player stats, information from around the league; game scores; passing, rushing, receiving and kicking leader boards; injury updates; player headlines; and other information of interest to fantasy-football players are also available through the service.
“Fantasy football is growing by leaps and bounds,” Time Warner Cable senior vice president of on-demand Bob Benya said in a prepared statement. “What better way to empower our football-loving customers than with the ability to track their own fantasy players while watching their favorite team play on Sunday without having to run back and forth to their computer?”
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