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>>
All MSR Blog Posts

New app features, streaming opportunities for March Madness
March 19, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
The NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball tournament, or as it is better known March Madness, has already started but there is still time for those that wait until the 13th hour to get their act together to both follow the tournament as a fan and your bracket as, well also a fan. First and foremost is watching and following the games and Turner Sports, along with NCAA.com and CBS Sports have Read More>>

AT&T running ads about DAS in stadiums… MSR approves
March 17, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
Sure this is an AT&T ad. But an ad about putting in DAS at a stadium? Who would run a copy of this except us? Enjoy all you antenna geeks out there. And... there's gotta be work for the fan, maybe conduit work? C'mon DAS dudes, let me in on the fun! You had me at "Do you know how to optimize a 9-beam multi-beam antenna system?" Read More>>

Google teams with NCAA, Turner Sports and CBS Sports for March Madness promo
March 17, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
Google is seeking to make waves during the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament in an effort that teams the Internet giant with the NCAA and its broadcasting and software development partners Turner Sports and CBS Sports. The effort will revolve around Google’s social network application called Google+, a rival to industry leader Facebook, and it will be interesting to see if Google Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: R.B.I. Baseball available in April?
March 14, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
Reports are emerging that R.B.I. Baseball 2014 will be available just in time for the start of the MLB season. According to a tweet from Darren Rovell the long-awaited renewal of the once popular game will be available on April 10. The game will be available on a wide number of platforms including PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, and Android devices. This is MLBAM’s first move into the video game Read More>>

Stadium Tech Report: Aruba, AT&T team up to bring Wi-Fi to American Airlines Center
March 13, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
After famously voicing his opinion that it just wasn't needed, Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, at least now grudingly agrees that stadium Wi-Fi is a must-have amenity for NBA arenas. Last week his team's home facility, the American Airlines Center in Dallas, formally took the wraps off a powerful new Wi-Fi network. Built by AT&T using 315 access points from wireless Read More>>

Jawbone UP24 support comes to Android
March 11, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
For the fitness band user and Android owner there are a few options not available to you as some products are only available for Apple’s iOS app platform. But in this emerging market but one of the stalwarts, Jawbone, has just made the transition to supporting Android in its most recent release. A few months after Jawbone released an Apple version it has released the UP 3.0 app that brings Read More>>

ESPN to live stream Cricket Championships
March 10, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
While the average American may only know of cricket as a game that some say partially evolved into baseball it has a huge worldwide following, particularly in parts of the British Commonwealth where England helped establish the game when it ruled a vast empire. For fans of the game ESPN will be presenting the biennial 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Cricket Championship as a multiplatform broadcast so Read More>>
Friday Grab Bag: 14 New ESPN Channels — mainly online
March 7, 2014 By Paul Kapustka
ESPN is launching 15 virtual networks for users of Apple TV and Roku boxes that provide Internet connectivity to their televisions as part of its ongoing WatchESPN initiative. The new channels’ programming will be culled from related conference programming from the network’s existing portfolio that includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU and others. Some of the programming will include select live Read More>>






