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Sports Updater Texting Service

Submitted by: Conor
Created: Mar 14, 2008, 8:57 am

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Most people whatever the scale, have got an interest in sport and in their particular team. Sometimes for whatever reason whether it be a work, travel a wedding etc.. cannot follow their particular team. This can be frustrating if its an important match, you might have a small bet on the outcome or any other number of reasons so you like to be informed on the latest goings on. The sports updater texting service would provide a service to which you could join for a subscription fee each season and with it you would get updates sent to your phone, specified by you, whenever something major happened, depending on what you have selected as information you would like to be made aware of. This could range from goals, to transfers, to other related teams performances etc.. and the user would select what and how much information they required.

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I thought of this idea when I was...

So many times over the years I have phoned friends to ask for results and have been with people who have done the same. And only a few weeks ago my friend was getting sent regular updates from the spurs chelsea cup final by a friend as we were both at work and it was then I thought this is definitely an idea that people would be interested in and find useful.

Comments Posted

vanhees Posted: March 17, 2008, 5:21 am

As far as I know this exists, they even send you the goals if you want.

micco Posted: March 17, 2008, 6:59 am

There are some legal issues with this if you do real-time updates during a game. I worked with a company that was going to do exactly this for basketball scores, but the NBA asserts full ownership of broadcast rights and claims that covers even periodic updates on the score during the games. As far as I know, there isn't any legal precedent on how much updating is allowed before you infringe on their broadcast. Obviously news channels do this, but the NBA might let them get away with more than they would permit from a startup. Recently, professional baseball claimed that live blogging from the game infringed on their broadcast rights if it updated more than once an inning.

Nickonomics101 Posted: March 19, 2008, 9:12 pm

AOL can do this, as can many other services. Doesn't seem profitable.

JelmerBV Posted: March 20, 2008, 1:34 am

Just like VanHees said; they will even send you a message when a goal is scored if you want them to do it.

vanhees Posted: March 21, 2008, 2:32 am

Want I meant: they sent even a little movie to show the actual goal...

wolfmann Posted: March 22, 2008, 10:44 pm

As Micco said, there is a huge issue with legality here.

If I remember correctly, to do play-by-plays during a professional sports game, you will need to have a license from that particular league. Check out discussions about YouCastr.com on TechCrunch for this..

Kevin_Cox Posted: March 22, 2008, 11:23 pm

Chose a sport and I bet you can get this all ready.

nick_mati Posted: March 25, 2008, 2:01 am

been done...

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