FLAGSHIP SERIES: STADIUM TECH REPORTS
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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Would Proposed A La Carte Cable Bill Hurt Sports Channels?
Senator John McCain is introducing a bill that would enable cable companies to offer subscribers the ability to select which channels they would watch, and pay for and allow them to relegate the remainder to the waste bin. The push is not his first try at this, he had a similar bill back in 2006 that did go very far, and the new effort, called the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013 is Read More>>
WSJ: ESPN Thinking About Paying for Your Mobile Sports Jones
You have to fight your way around the paywalls to read it, but the Wall Street Journal had a story today about ESPN talking to wireless providers about paying part of the fees for people who watch sports via cellular connections. There's nobody on record, but when the WSJ uses the familiar "according to people familiar with the matter" dodge you know that somebody wanted this story to get Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: The Players Championship, with Bonus Online Video
Are you ready for the so-called "fifth major?" Do you buy any of that? I don't, but there is no denying that the money and exposure of the Tour's signature non-major event makes this a special weekend, maybe the biggest non-major weekend of the regular season. I tend to look at the Players as a sort of All-Star weekend -- comparing it to basketball days of yore, it meant something when Magic, Read More>>
MLBAM Teams with NDN to Deliver MLB Video to News Web Sites
A trip to your favorite baseball news site may soon be enlivened by video that matches up with the stories due to a new deal that has been struck between Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media (MLBAM) arm and Internet video provider NDN. While it may seem odd that MLB needs a partner on video, it has been producing highlights and videos that are available on the Internet for over a decade, the Read More>>
ESPN has Big Month of Tennis Broadcasts
With several important tennis events in the next few weeks ESPN will be featuring a total of 14 consecutive days of broadcasts as the tennis world ramps up for the big clay court event at the end of the month, the French Open. The preliminaries are the ATP World Tour event, the Mutua Madrid Open that is being held in Madrid, and which started this morning and run until Sunday, May 12. Of Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag- Major Apple iOS 7 Revamp on the Way?
Google has started providing its developers with the Glass Explorer edition of the product and they have started to create some of the first generation apps for the eyewear. It already comes with voice recognition software to help users navigate and display data but one developer has taken it a step further. According to a piece by CBS News an app has emerged that cuts out the need to inform Read More>>
Watching Golf this Week: Wells Fargo Championship
Bad greens! Bad greens! Want more proof that professional golfers have no idea what the real world is like? Witness all the big stars pulling out of this week's Wells Fargo Championship because... the greens aren't in top shape. On some level we can understand: The best players in the world, like Tiger Woods, play at a high level of perfection and hate it when they can't count on the conditions Read More>>
