New base-runner and player card profile features make it a
must-have iPhone app for fantasy managers
TORONTO,
April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Score
Media Inc. (TSX: SCR) today announces the launch of a series
of exciting baseball-related updates to ScoreMobile for iPhone,
making the app the ideal companion for fantasy league managers
wanting to track their rosters in real time.
With more than 3.6 million unique users every month, ScoreMobile
is already considered one of the leading free sports apps in the
world.
And now the best sports app just got even better, with iPhone
users able to access some great new user-friendly features
including:
- Brand new "base runner diamond" feature, where users can get a
snapshot of who's on base, how many outs and the score from every
game that day in one quick snapshot
- The new "Player Card Profile" feature which carries all the
recent news articles from Rotowire about their featured stars,
keeping them on top of the latest injury and selection news in real
time
- The new "Team View" will keep users up-to-date with every
strikeout, homerun, or win and browse team specific news, rankings
and recent performances
Dale Fallon, VP Digital Products,
Score Media Inc, said: "With the addition of fantasy news for each
player and the ability to add your entire fantasy teams to follow
along in real time, ScoreMobile has become an integral fantasy
sports tool. These features make it the perfect app for the
baseball season."
ScoreMobile is also available on BlackBerry,
Android and Windows Phone devices and can be downloaded from the
Apple iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World or Windows
Marketplace. For more information visit www.scoremobile.com.
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About Score Media Inc.
Score Media is a media company committed to delivering
interactive and authentic sports entertainment. Score Media's
primary asset, theScore Television Network ("theScore"), is a
national specialty television service providing sports news,
information, highlights and live event programming in more than 6.8
million homes across Canada.
The Company's digital media assets include theScore.com and the
industry leading mobile sports applications ScoreMobile,
ScoreMobile FC and SportsTap which reach over three million unique
users per month. Growing from a team of 60 in 1997 to over
290 employees in 2012, Score Media is a revolutionizing interactive
media company.
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Image with caption: "An example of the base runner diamond
feature - one of the new updates to ScoreMobile for iPhone. (CNW
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