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Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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SendtoNews inks digital distribution deal with PGA Tour
Cloud-based digital sports media distributor SendtoNews has another feather in its cap as it has signed an exclusive multiyear deal with the PGA Tour that gives SendtoNews the rights to distribute PGA digital video to U.S. local news sites. This continues a slow and steady expansion of the multimedia digital sports distributor. It had signed a Canada-only deal to distribute NFL video and signed Read More>>
Winter Olympics Online offerings grow with Comcast move
If you are a subscriber to Comcast’s cable service and use its Xfinity TV X1 set top box and are a fan of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, there is great news for you as the carrier has agreed to live stream all of the events. NBC has been making a great deal of news with its big expansion of streaming Olympic events and extra programming, so this is really no real surprise since Comcast Read More>>
Why the NFL is blocking streaming at the Super Bowl: Blame the network, not the fans
In case you are wondering why you won't be able to watch the Super Bowl live on your phone while you're at the game, Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica has a good story about why the NFL is blocking streaming video inside MetLife Stadium. To quickly recap, NFL CIO Michelle McKenna-Doyle told Brodkin that streaming video takes up too much bandwidth, and that it could hamper overall wireless communications Read More>>
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Stadium Tech Report: Verizon, AT&T DAS upgrades at MetLife Stadium await Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl foes the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos have only had two weeks to prepare for each other. But Verizon Wireless and AT&T have been preparing for the roman-numeral date at MetLife Stadium for more than a year. Will the Verizon Wi-Fi and DAS, and AT&T's separate DAS be able to handle the wireless needs of the fans at the NFL's biggest game? Tune in Sunday to see! We might be Read More>>
Fox: We’re ready for big Super Bowl streaming audience
While nobody can predict how things like a stadium blackout or a polar vortex might affect the broadcast of an event like the Super Bowl, executives at Fox are doing all they can to prepare to make sure this year's online coverage of the NFL's championship game goes off as well as possible. With viewership expected to exceed last year's total of 3 million unique online viewers, the live stream Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: $1 Billion for perfect March Madness bracket?
Every year you hear, usually third hand, about somebody who correctly picked all of the winners in the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament. A side note is that they won an office pool with maybe a few hundred dollars in it. Well Warren Buffett is changing the stakes to the game, along with Berkshire Hathaway and Quicken Loans. They are offering an award of $1 billion for the person that Read More>>
Comcast to power free Wi-Fi at Niners’ new Levi’s Stadium
Who's got better Wi-Fi than we do? Nobody! Under terms of a 10-year deal announced today, cable giant Comcast will provide backbone services and free Wi-Fi to the San Francisco 49ers' new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., scheduled to open this summer. The wide-ranging agreement, which also will see Comcast providing in-stadium video and Internet services as well as voice services for the Read More>>
