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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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Innovation and experience leads the technology deployment at Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium
November 10, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
If it looks somewhat like a spaceship, perhaps that's appropriate since the arrival of Allegiant Stadium has brought to Las Vegas something alien that residents thought they might never see: live NFL games, happening just off the city's famed Strip. As befits its futuristic appearance, the new home of the newly named Las Vegas Raiders is also fitted with the latest in fan-facing technologies, Read More>>
Niners test 8K cameras for replays at Levi’s Stadium
November 9, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
When fans are allowed back into Levi's Stadium, they will be able to see some replays in the highest definition ever, thanks to an experiment that uses 8K camera technology to zoom in like never before. Born out of a partnership between the San Francisco 49ers and Foxconn Industrial Internet (Fii), the team has mounted five of Fii's 8K cameras inside the stadium to provide extremely Read More>>
Perform Path intros UV-light ‘disinfection box’ for sports equipment
October 27, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
As teams start playing sports in the middle of a pandemic, one obvious question arises: How do you disinfect the balls used in the games, since they have the potential to be touched by many players during live action? One answer is now available from Perform Path, a startup purveyor of UV-light disinfectant solutions for stadiums and venues: A special-built equipment box with built-in UV Read More>>
Pandemic planning puts focus on venue entry, concessions
October 26, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
As some venues take baby steps forward in allowing limited fan attendance at events, for most venues the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are forcing owners and operators to take a longer look at the technologies and procedures that can help provide safer situations for large crowds inside public spaces for the foreseeable future. And if keeping fans farther apart from each other is one Read More>>
New Report: Inside the technology at SoFi Stadium and Allegiant Stadium
October 14, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
Stadium Tech Report is pleased to announce our FALL 2020 issue, with profiles of two of the most innovative new venues to open – SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas! While neither venue will host fans this NFL season, our profiles will dig in-depth to tell you about the technologies in place to make these stadiums the most advanced when it comes to the game-day Read More>>
Venue Display Report: An in-depth look at SoFi Stadium’s amazing videoboard
October 14, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
STADIUM TECH REPORT is pleased to welcome you to the latest issue of our VENUE DISPLAY REPORT series, with an in-depth report on perhaps the most innovative main stadium video board ever, the new Samsung dual-sided, 4K oval videoboard at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. These long-form reports are designed to give stadium and large public venue owners and operators, and digital sports business Read More>>
Pac-12, Mountain West move to resume football seasons; Notre Dame, Tennessee Titans see outbreaks
September 29, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
Citing the availability of better, more rapid testing for Covid-19 infections as a main changing point, the Pac-12 conference last week announced it would "resume its football, basketball and winter sport seasons," with football games possibly taking place starting Nov. 6. While the announcement on the conference website noted that "the football season may now commence for those teams that have Read More>>
Big Ten votes to start football season in late October
September 16, 2020 By Paul Kapustka Leave a Comment
In a somewhat stunning reversal, the Big Ten conference Wednesday had a unanimous vote from chancellors and presidents to start its football season the weekend of Oct. 23, after first suspending the season on Aug. 11, due to the coronavirus pandemic. While the Big Ten cited improved medical testing and screening as part of the reason why it reversed its earlier decision, reporting from Sportico Read More>>