Race cars zip around tracks at close to 200 miles per hour, but getting a real sense of that speed can be hard for viewers at home. To bring a better feeling of the velocity of NASCAR racers, Fox Sports is installing a rail cam along the second turn at Charlotte Motor Speedway for this […]
The NHL is embedding technology into its pucks that will allow it to track movement on the ice at a rate of roughly 200 times a second, according to David Lehanski, the NHL’s senior vice president of business development and global partnerships. The smart puck will aid in the league’s development of live data, which […]
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hailed the league’s live streams on Facebook as “a great experiment,” on Tuesday. He added that the audience for the exclusive Wednesday afternoon games has skewed about 20 years younger than traditional broadcasts. Speaking at the Leaders Sport Business Summit in New York City, Manfred said the move from weekly Friday […]
Brazil’s top league, the Brasileiro, will become the first domestic soccer league to stream games live on YouTube. The Google-owned video platform reportedly will broadcast 110 live matches in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A on a dedicated YouTube channel to 27 territories in Europe, Asia and Oceania. The agreement was brokered by third-party Spanish producer […]
FOX Sports will be streaming live 4K video from the U.S. Open’s seventh hole this year. Using 5G wireless technology, and thanks to help from the Fox Innovation Lab, Ericsson, Intel, and AT&T, that means fans at home will get ultra high-definition views of the players’ successes or failures on the difficult par-3 challenge at Shinnecock […]
