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New Report: What’s Next for venues in the face of Covid-19; plus profiles of Globe Life Field and Dodger Stadium
STADIUM TECH REPORT is pleased to announce the Summer 2020 issue of our STADIUM TECH REPORT series, the ONLY in-depth publication created specifically for the stadium technology professional and the stadium technology marketplace. Our stories for this issue include our first comprehensive look at how venue owners and operators, and teams and schools, might find a way back to live action and fans in stadiums Read More>>
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Big Ten, Pac-12 move to conference-only schedules for fall sports
In what may eventually be just an interim step before outright cancellations, the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences both announced this week plans to move to conference-only schedules for fall sports, which in immediate news meant that a significant number of non-conference football games are now canceled. Both the Big Ten statement from Thursday and the Pac-12 statement from Friday contained Read More>>
Chiefs, Ravens unveil limited-capacity seating plans for 2020 season
While there's still no guarantee that the NFL will play games at all this fall, or allow fans to attend if they do, two more teams -- the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens -- have announced plans for limited-capacity stadium seating if the games take place. While the Chiefs' statement did not announce a number, the Ravens' announcement did say that if fans were Read More>>
Ivy League cancels all fall sports due to Covid-19
Is it the first domino, or just a separate case? Wednesday's decision by the Ivy League to cancel all fall sports -- including football -- due to the pandemic may either be just the first of many such actions, especially if the current rise in coronavirus cases continues to climb. In a press release, the league said: The Ivy League Council of Presidents offered the following joint statement: Read More>>
PGA scrubs idea for fans at Memorial Tournament
The PGA canceled its idea to have a limited amount of fans at the upcoming Memorial Tournament, "due to the rapidly changing dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic." In a release posted Monday on the tournament's website, the much-ballyhooed plan to have fans tracked by wearing RFID-equipped badges and another series of related planned safety procedures turned out to not be enough in the end for the Read More>>
Commentary: What’s Next in the Return to Venues
By Bill Anderson, president, AmpThink On March 11, 2020, a full house of fans had filled Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, in anticipation of an NBA game between the Thunder and the visiting Utah Jazz. But just before tipoff, the referees convened at midcourt for a discussion. Soon after that, the teams were sent back to the locker rooms, and eventually an announcement was made that the Read More>>
Dodgers up the ante with new Wi-Fi 6 network
Professional sports may have put games and exhibitions on hold, but a handful of IT executives from Major League Baseball teams have been using pandemic downtime to upgrade Wi-Fi and DAS systems in their stadiums. Case in point: The Los Angeles Dodgers just completed the league’s first Wi-Fi 6 overhaul along with adding new 5G cellular antennas to ensure Blue Believers stay seamlessly connected Read More>>
Perform Path launches to bring UV disinfection technology to sports venues
Will ultraviolet light be part of the disinfection solution for sports venues as they build an infrastructure that can deal with the Covid-19 pandemic? That's the bet behind Perform Path, a Lake Mary, Fla.-based startup built to sell UV-disinfection solutions to teams and venues that the company says are "effective at killing up to 99.9% of harmful bacteria and viruses." Though no certified Read More>>
Expanding our scope: Welcome to… Stadium Tech Report!
Welcome to the strangest time ever for sports. For venue technology professionals, it’s even tougher, since they need to not just deal with the present but also must plan for the future. And that would be an incredibly uncertain future, with uncertain needs, perhaps fulfilled by untested technologies, which need to be paid for at a time when no money is coming in. All that makes it tough to show Read More>>
