Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » SB Nation http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 SB Nation Acquires SportsRadioInterviews.com http://pulse2.com/2010/11/09/sb-nation-acquires-sportsradiointerviews-com/ http://pulse2.com/2010/11/09/sb-nation-acquires-sportsradiointerviews-com/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:29:45 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=37488 Continue reading →]]>
SB Nation is already putting their $10.5 million Series C to use. The company has announced that they have acquired SportsRadioInterviews.com. SportsRadioInterviews.com is a streaming sports blog that discusses news, upcoming games, and sporting events from the perspective of a sports radio. The website was co-founded by Jimmy Shapiro and Dan Zucker. Below is the full press release:

SB Nation to Purchase SportsRadioInterviews.com

Leading Sports Radio Station Streaming Blog to Join Nation’s Preeminent Network of Online Sports Communities

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — SB Nation announced today that it has purchased www.sportsradiointerviews.com. SportsRadioInterviews.com (SRI) is a streaming sports blog which provides analysis of breaking news, upcoming games and sporting events from a sports radio perspective. Co-founded by Jimmy Shapiro and Dan Zucker of www.zuckermediagroup.com, SRI has developed a unique style of breaking national sports news by pushing out local and syndicated sports radio station interviews.

“Our goal at SB Nation is to provide sports fans with news, opinion and analysis, regardless of where the information happens,” said Jim Bankoff, Chairman and CEO of SB Nation. “There is so much great content on the radio, SRI will be a great asset and compliment the entire SB Nation portfolio.”

SRI co-founder Jimmy Shapiro commented, “Creating this site has allowed us to leverage our relationships in the sports media business to build a category leader quickly. We are looking forward to continuing to grow the brand under Jim and his teams’ guidance.”
Shapiro will stay on as the Executive Editor of SportsRadioInterviews.

About SB Nation
SB Nation is the country’s largest and fastest growing online sports media company. Based in Washington DC, SB Nation owns and operates nearly 290 team-centric, sport-specific and regional websites, creating the nation’s preeminent network of online sports communities. Working with only the most respected writers, editors and bloggers, SB Nation empowers passionate fans to engage in high quality sports conversation. Each SB Nation site boasts its own name, URL, branding, guidelines and staff, and collectively the network produces more than 40,000 monthly pieces of unique sports content per day, more than any other media outlet. The company’s national flagship site SBNation.com complements its team communities by covering sports news in real time with original content and the best sports news from across the web. For a full directory of SB Nation team and community sites log on to www.sbnation.com/blogs. The company’s investors include Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital, Allen & Company and Khosla Ventures.

SOURCE SB Nation

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SB Nation is a sports and news blog company that is based in Washington D.C. The company has raised a $10.5 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures. SB Nation previously raised $13 million in funding from Accel Partners, Allen & Company, Comcast Interactive Capital, and several angel investors.

In this round of funding Comcast and Accel will also be participating. This round of funding will put SB Nation’s post-investment valuation at over $30 million.

SB Nation now has about 21 regional sports websites in their network. This round of funding will go towards investments in the company’s technology platform, paying bloggers, integrating mobile content, and advertising sales.

[AllThingsD]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2010/11/08/sb-nation-raises-10-5-million/feed/ 1 Jim Bankoff’s SB Nation Receives Funding http://pulse2.com/2008/10/29/jim-bankoffs-sb-nation-receives-funding/ http://pulse2.com/2008/10/29/jim-bankoffs-sb-nation-receives-funding/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:50:03 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=6539 Continue reading →]]>
SB Nation is a sports startup that was started by Jim Bankoff, former AOL EVP of Consumer and Publisher Services.  Bankoff is also a Senior Advisor with Providence Equity Partners.  Bankoff was one of the AOL execs that pushed for the development of TMZ.com.

Although it is not known exactly how much SB Nation has raised, TechCrunch pegs it at around the “mid-seven-figure sum.”  The funding was provided by Accel, Allen & Co., and several other angel investors.  The other angel investors include Ted Leonsis (former AOL Vice Chairman and Washington Capitals owner), Brent Jones (former San Francisco 49ers player and MD of Northgate Capital), Dan Rosenweig, Jeff Weiner, and other executives from Providence Equity Partners.

SB Nation is short for SportsBlogs Nation.  About 150 team sites are linked together by local writers within the SB Nation network.  All of these bloggers share in advertising revenue.  SB Nation sites combined receive about 2 million unique visitors per month.

SB Nation is based in Washington D.C.

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