NFL-Like: MLB to Impose Online Content Restrictions

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THT Daily: News and notes
Published 2/26/2008 by Bryan Tsao at The Hardball Times
... - A's and Red Sox players making their season opening trip will make at least $40,000 extra a piece for their troubles. Live from the ballpark - Starting this season, news organizations will face increased restrictions on what content they can put on their websites or show from the ballpark. ...

The Biz of Baseball: Brown: NFL-Like: MLB to Impose Online Content Restrictions
Published 2/26/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Biz of Baseball: Brown: NFL-Like: MLB to Impose Online Content Restrictions NFL?...talking head material?... I Zebra! Last year, a hot-button issue was the NFL’s institution of what has been called the “45-second rule” whereby media outlets were restricted from airing no more than 45 seconds of audio or video online. Now, Major League Baseball is following suit. According to Sports Business Journal, starting this coming season news organizations will be limited to no more than 120 seconds of audio or video from league facilities. To add to that, “with game highlights ...

You Will Only Enjoy 120 Seconds Of Off-MLB.com Baseball [MLB.com]
Published 2/26/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... League Baseball. (We actually wrote a story about this for the next issue of Fast Company magazine.) They've been smart enough to put the focus on video, to make the user experience as deep and vast as possible and, mostly, to make sure that they own everything involving baseball on the Web. ESPN.com doesn't cover MLB.com; it's its competition. This has now been taken to its logical next step. MLB wants journalists to know that their online baseball coverage is limited, at best. According to Sports Business Journal, starting this ...

MLB To Give Two-Minute Warning To News Sites
Published 2/26/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
DEADSPIN via THE BIZ OF BASEBALL gets out the stopwatch, as Major League Baseball is enforcing a new 120-second limit on online material . Starting this season, media websites cannot have more than two minutes of audio or video made from “league facilities”, and game highlights are “restricted only to rights holders that have a separate rights deal with MLB Advanced Media .” Also, the news sites can’t post more than 7 photos from a game and can’t create their own photo galleries. In addition, “non-text content created at MLB ballparks cannot stay up on a news outlet Web site for more than 72 hours .” The new policy is similar to the NFL’s 45-second ...

MLB Advanced Media Will Limit Web-Based Video Content
Published 2/27/2008 by PostmanR at FanHouse
Filed under: MLB Fans, MLB Media WatchBefore the beginning of this NFL season, the league decreed that Web news entities could only display 45 seconds of video when reporting on a team, practice and pretty much everything else. (This was chronicled somewhat humorously by John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. g2g byeee!) Following suit, the Sports Business Journal is reporting MLB Advanced Media is pulling a similar trick, limiting online video content to 120 seconds. The 120 seconds of MLB content cannot be streamed live, and like the NFL's rule, the cap does not apply to news outlets providing ...

Twins play a game
Published 2/27/2008 at Twins Nation Blog
The Twins played their first game of the spring, facing off against the Concordia College Golden Bears. It more more or less a fun competition in which Rick Stelmaszek was the home plate umpire and Ron Gardenhire umpired first base. I’m not sure an official box score exists for this game (as if anyone would care), but LaVelle and Joe Christensen each have their own recaps of the game. Most notably Phillip Humber allowed 4 of Concordia’s runs. The two other pitching prospects received in the Santana deal, Kevin Mulvey and Deolis Guerra also saw some time on ...