THANKS, BUD! Baseball’s Former Commissioner and Streaming TV
other popular sports leagues like WorldWrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the National Hockey League (NHL). (It even assisted HBO!)
You don’t become America’s national pastime without learning how to adapt — and Major League Baseball (MLB) made the ultimate pivot.
In 2017, one of the biggest players in movies, Disney, invested in BAMTech, claiming a majority stake, and began its transition into streaming services. Soon after, as The Hustle reported in July 2021, Disney announced a streaming platform whose features were similar to that of Netflix and BAM. In March 2021, Disney+ hit more than 100 million users, making it a powerhouse in streaming — all created because of BAMTech. Today, BAM and BAMTech are credited with being on the forefront of streaming services and continue to hold a power position over streaming and within entertainment companies. “Media companies are not good at tech and really struggle with large scale,” says investment analyst Rich Greenfield in The Verge. “They don’t trust companies like Google or Amazon, who want to displace them. BAM is seen as friendly.”
This October, MLB’s biggest stars and teams with the most wins all-time will take the field for the 2021 playoffs. The winners will be crowned champions of the world, but the league these champs call home already owns an equally prestigious title: the founders of streaming services. Their legendary reign started back in the early 2000s, when former MLB commissioner Bud Selig asked every team in the league to contribute $4 million for the creation of Baseball Advanced Media (BAM). At that time, the dot-com bubble had yet to burst, and Selig wanted America’s once favorite sport to “keep up with the times,” so to speak. BAM created a website for each team, but it soon took on other qualities that gave it an edge. The Hustle reports that BAM offered online video, multidevice watching services, and a large data and broadband structure before other major platforms even existed. BAM became such a smashing success that it soon became BAMTech and started creating platforms for
Does Your Car Have an Accident Survival Kit?
Important Items to Keep in Your Car
Car accidents can be terrifying; they come out of nowhere. What’s more terrifying is being in a wreck while you aren’t prepared for it. This is true for trucking accidents, OUI accidents, and general car crashes when you are not the one at fault. To keep from making a bad situation worse, make sure you keep the following materials in your vehicle at all times. They will help you in the moments after you get into an accident but can bring you comfort every time you get behind the wheel, knowing you’re prepared. Flashlight Sure, everyone has a flashlight on their phone but there is no way to know it will be available in the event of an accident. Your phone could be dead or lost during the accident, or even broken beyond use. Having a flashlight will allow you to assess the damage to your car and to check yourself and passengers for injury in the dark. A car accident is never good, but a car accident at night can be a nightmare. First-Aid Kit If you are seriously injured, you should always be checked by emergency medical services (EMS), but you should still keep a first-aid kit in your
car. Should you find yourself on a remote road when an accident occurs, a first-aid kit can provide much-needed supplies for small scrapes and bruises or for more serious injuries until EMS arrives. Pen and Paper If your phone is dead, lost, or broken, you may not be able to take pictures of the accident scene, but you can still get loads of information documented with pen and paper. Insurance information, license plate numbers, witness names, and contact information can all be recorded without a phone.
This list is by no means exhaustive, but it can be essential when a car wreck occurs.
After a car crash or trucking accident, please take care to ensure you and anyone else involved is alright. Then use the tools you have with you in the immediate aftermath of a collision with another vehicle. After everything is in order, be sure to contact our expert legal team as soon as possible. We will help you navigate the insurance process to cover any injuries you or your passengers may have sustained as a result of the other driver’s negligence.
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