NEW YORK — In hearing Amazon executives discuss the kickoff of its Thursday Night Football streaming package next week, a few insights emerged about how the tech giant envisions its NFL coverage and what customers should expect starting with the first game on Sept. 28: The game broadcast itself won’t be materially different but may […]
Major League Baseball’s revolutionary Statcast technology has earned a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its collection and broadcast of advanced tracking statistics. The Emmy will be jointly presented to all three members of the Statcast triumvirate: TrackMan, which provides its Doppler radars; ChyronHego, which offers both an optical-tracking system (called TRACAB) and broadcast visualization tools; […]
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It was just the play that took the wind out of the New York Giants’ sails in their Monday night game against the Detroit Lions at MetLife Stadium. Rookie Jamal Agnew fielded a punt less than a minute into the fourth quarter, dodged seven Giants players and ran what was called […]
Forty-three million unique viewers were reached during the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. Thirty-one million watched game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals — arguably one of the greatest games in league history. There’s no debate over the popularity of esports broadcasts. Just as networks like ESPN have made improvements to broadcasts, it’s important […]
Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin estimates that 80 percent of pitches in an SEC game are called from the dugout, a ritual that typically entails a catcher dropping to one knee, looking toward his pitching coach, decoding one set of signs and then relaying another to the pitcher on the mound. Wash, rinse and repeat […]
