The “one-stop shopping” nature of Facebook Live attracted the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) to partner with the social media platform and broadcast the annual college basketball tournament, the first such initiative of its kind. According to Joe Dwyer, President of College Insider, Inc., the ability for fans to watch video features, full interviews and games […]
Sportsnet is partnering with Molson Canadian to offer six upcoming NHL games in live 360 Virtual Reality for the first time. Specially marked cases of Molson Canadian lager being sold across Canada contain VR headsets designed to offer hockey fans a glimpse into the VR broadcasts. The headsets include pin codes and instructions to access 360 VR content […]
For nearly the last 10 years, FOX Sports has been bridging the gap between textbooks and theory and real-world experiences. Through FOX Sports University, starting with the University of Florida and University of Southern California in 2008, more than 30 schools have partnered with the sports media network around technology-driven case studies, corporate marketing projects and […]
Late in the game during an exciting Super Bowl LI, FOX Sports experienced a “streaming issue” that was quickly resolved. With the game coming down to the wire and the New England Patriots in the midst of completing a comeback, some viewers who were watching on FOX Sports GO couldn’t bear to miss any of […]
ST. PAUL — A drone was used for the first time in the Red Bull Crashed Ice series to capture images for Red Bull TV’s live broadcast of ice cross downhill. Before it soared above the grounds of the Cathedral of St. Paul where the starting gates were located, there was the matter of the […]