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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Mobile technology and the Tour de France: Good, bad, ugly, cool — and you still need to pay NBC to watch it live online
Ever wanted to know what the Tour de France looks like from right in the middle of the pack? You now can see what it looks like for yourself, thanks to some on-bike cameras being used on a trial basis at this year's race. Here is a link to a clip from Stage 1 that shows what it's like to see a crash happen right in front of you. Great stuff, the kind of smart use of mobile technology that we've Read More>>
Report excerpt: AT&T’s Donovan talks stadium DAS
Editor's note: The following excerpt from our exclusive interview with AT&T senior executive vice president John Donovan comes from our Stadium Tech Report for Q2 2014, which includes a wealth of information, research and analysis about the stadium tech marketplace. With a focus on Major League Baseball technology deployments, the report is available free for download so get your copy today. Enjoy Read More>>
Stadium Tech Report: Read why we think MLB is the sports digital experience leader
Is there any doubt that when it comes to the digital fan experience, Major League Baseball is in first place? That's the way we see things, and research we did for our second quarterly long-form STADIUM TECH REPORT issue bears that opinion out. Thanks to a far-sighted strategy that kept league control over all Internet content, and some innovative, forward-thinking technology leaders at several Read More>>
ESPN’s streaming World Cup: Record audiences, embarrassing crashes
Just like the U.S. Men's soccer team, ESPN had it both good and bad during Wednesday's World Cup game against Germany. On the plus side, ESPN recorded record audiences for its online broadcasts, easily topping any other sporting event ever, including Super Bowls. But the bad was about as bad as the U.S. team's somewhat lackluster shutout. By several accounts, including our personal viewing, Read More>>
Stadium for next U.S. World Cup game will have Ruckus-powered Wi-Fi available
Talk about luck of the draw: Fans of the U.S. men's soccer team who are on hand for the squad's next game on Tuesday, July 1, should be able to use a Ruckus Wireless-powered Wi-Fi network at the 51,900-seat Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil. As MSR reported last year, Ruckus Wireless won contracts to supply the Wi-Fi gear for at least two of the stadiums being used in the World Cup Read More>>
StadiumPark touts ‘EZ Pass for stadiums’ parking app idea
At first blush, it's an idea so simple you wonder why it hasn't been thought of before: Why not build a system that mimics highway EZ Pass functionality to make parking at sports events easier? That's the simple but powerful idea behind StadiumPark, a Rochester, N.Y. startup that has developed an app that will let fans pay for parking with their phones, in the hopes of curing one of the main Read More>>
AT&T: Hoops fans use more data than hockey fans
In a somewhat-not-surprising statistical revelation, AT&T said that basketball fans used more wireless data on its network than hockey fans at the respective arenas during both leagues' recent championship series. Using measurements of only AT&T customer traffic from the AT&T digital antenna system (DAS) deployments in arenas in Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles and New York, AT&T said that hoops Read More>>
NBC sets streaming records for Stanley Cup final
Call us biased, but we bet that the numbers would have been even better had the Chicago Blackhawks been in the Stanley Cup final instead of the Los Angeles Kings. Still, according to NBC, this year's Stanley Cup Final recorded record online streaming numbers "for virtually every metric," according to a press release out today. Here are the figures from NBC: "Live streaming for the five-game Read More>>
