Verizon brings football to the tablet with iPad TV app

written by: Gianluigi Cuccureddu

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Published on Sunday, 12 December 2010 13:59

Verizon Communications launched a new NFL RedZone iPad app for their FiOS TV customers. The iPad app lets you stream RedZone content to the iPad in your home, assuming you are a FiOS TV customer that subscribes to the RedZone channel. Further, ConnectedPlanetOnline reports that the app actually was relaunched last month whilst its debut was earlier in the year.

It was pulled from the app store for unknown reasons and has now made a triumphant return, a screenshot of the app can be seen below.

TFTS on the abilities of the app:

ConnectedPlanetOnline further elaborates on the niche of this app:

This one is purely for the fantasy football freaks among us. If you are wondering why anyone would need to watch RedZone on an iPad while at home—and probably watching football on TV at the same time—than you are not a member of the target audience for this app. Perhaps that’s why Verizon didn’t bring out the trumpets for its launch. Such specialized iPad TV apps show how useful the tablet really can be as a TV accompaniment, though the big fanfare should be saved for the more broadly appealing iPad TV apps.