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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MLB.Com At Bat 12 Popularity Soaring
April 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Bad weather is always an unfortunate fact of life, even more so when it coincides with the start of the baseball season. The joys of watching your favorite team play can be severely dampened by an early season rainstorm. Yet fans are watching games in record numbers, by using MLB.Com At Bat 12, an app that baseball’s interactive media arm MLB Advanced Media, has been publishing for the last Read More>>
ESPN3 Provides College Football Fix this Weekend
April 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Missing college football, and to make matters worse, that huge pile of receipts and miscellaneous paperwork that represents your taxes adamantly refused to do itself? Well look to ESPN, specifically ESPN3 for a touch of stress relief as its starts broadcasting spring college football games. The channel will be hopping around the various conferences and will have games from the ACC, SEC, Big 12 Read More>>

The Golden State Warriors Continue Focus on Reaching Fans
April 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
While some believe that the Warriors are tanking in order to move into a potentially better lottery position and so keep the pick, the team and its new owners are definitely still working to connect with fans with the latest effort a mobile app. The team has launched an app, Golden State Warriors Mobile, now free at the iTunes store. The app pretty much does what you would expect by providing Read More>>

Watching Golf This Week: Plaid Ain’t Bad at the RBC Heritage
April 12, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Had your fill of all things Bubba? From pink drivers to soiled diapers to being on Letterman? Ready to watch golf again? Get ready to get bad in plaid because one week after the best jacket gets awarded the tour goes to the beaches and the Rodney Dangerfield memorial winner's jacket -- aka the big bad plaid that goes to the winner of the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island, S.C. If you think Read More>>

LiveU’s New Cellular TV Camera Modem Passes Super Bowl Test; LiveEdge Still MIA
April 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
Mobile TV camera modem supplier LiveU said Wednesday that its new belt-sized cellular modem was used for live camera shots at the Super Bowl in February, according to a press release issued by the company. We here at Mobile Sports Report expect cellular cameras to be a big thing going forward, to enable more sports content live from where it happens without the expense of a satellite Read More>>

Where’s My Hockey Game? NBC Has a Local Channel Finder for You
April 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
With the NHL playoffs starting today, NBC Sports has taken a great step to help hockey fans find the live broadcast of their team's games -- with an online channel finder and broadcast schedule. Given the poor interface of search on cable systems (I use Comcast and regularly use Tiger Woods language when trying to find obscure events via the remote and screen) this is a helpful trend we'd like to Read More>>

Wednesday Video Break: Bubba on The Late Show with Dave
April 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
In case you missed Masters champ Bubba Watson (and he was hard to miss Monday and Tuesday during his New York media blitz) here is a snippet of his appearance with David Letterman on the Late Show on CBS. Would like to hear more about how Bubba changed from being surly to being fun Bubba, but that will probably come out in the numerous post-Masters magazine articles. Anyway, since we missed Read More>>

U.S. Justice Department Charges Apple, 5 Publishers with Price Fixing
April 11, 2012 By Paul Kapustka
High flying Apple, whose market value recently topped $600 billion, has been hit by charges from the United States Justice Department alleging that Apple and five publishing partners have engaged in price fixing. The charges allege that Apple and five publishers: Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin Group (USA), and Macmillan conspired to end competition on ebooks and set a higher Read More>>