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An offseason project enhanced eight video displays around the venue in time for Opening Day Wrigley Field in Chicago is on every baseball fan’s bucket list, and, in its every
MLB All-Star Week returns to Philadelphia for the first time in 30 years as America celebrates its 250th, and T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is bringing fans closer to the game they
Ohio Stadium, home to one of the biggest, highest-performing stadium Wi-Fi networks anywhere, will now be leading the large-venue market into an AI-managed future with a Juniper Mist-powered Wi-Fi 7 upgrade that is already underway. According to technology executives at The Ohio State University, a…
The Universal Talent Identifier (HAND) has issued HAND IDs to 50 top prospects ahead of the 2026 MLB Draft, including consensus top-ranked players Roch Cholowsky, Grady Emerson, and Justin Lebron.
LiveLike, a digital fan engagement platform, has announced eight confirmed FIFA World Cup 2026 activations spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The company describes it
It’s Opening Day of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and the air is buzzing in the Hollywood Park District of Inglewood, CA. The energy on this sunny L.A. afternoon isn’t
The All England Lawn Tennis Club, AKQA and Hawk-Eye Innovations have launched HawkAR: Inclusive Feed, a combined accessibility layer for The Championships, Wimbledon 2026. The solution brings together two breakthrough
DAZN has announced results from DAZN48, its creator initiative for the FIFA World Cup 2026. Launched in April 2026, the program received thousands of applications and selected 48 creators, each
The newest entrant in the stadium hyper-directional Wi-Fi market is a joint product from MatSing and Extreme Networks that combines 16 independently tunable Wi-Fi beams with MatSing’s lens antenna technology. The system will make its first deployment at the new Nissan Stadium in Nashville when the…
The All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM have introduced new and enhanced digital fan features for The Championships, Wimbledon 2026, with AI-powered tools available through the Wimbledon app and
The 2025/26 European rugby season saw more than one million fans attend Champions Cup matches across the campaign, while over 52,000 filled San Mamés Stadium for the final in Bilbao. And, while live attendance remains central to rugby’s success, it is no longer the only way supporters engage with…
In-venue and creative video staffers at the professional and collegiate level have one major thing in common: the intensity and attention to detail ramps up during a live event. What
Daktronics and Grass Valley have received the rAVe Pubs Best Solution for Large Venue or Live Events Award at InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas. The award recognizes their API-level integration
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has announced a $100 million strategic investment in Cosm as lead investor in the company’s Series C financing round, acquiring a minority ownership stake. SPE Chairman
The SVG College Summit returned to Atlanta for two days of sessions focused on the evolving needs of collegiate athletic video departments, from live broadcast and in-venue production to creative
ESPN has announced ESPN Fan House, a fan engagement hub powered by Flowcode, launching in August ahead of the 2026 college football season. Publicis Sports will be the first agency
Ease Live has announced that its graphics overlay platform is powering an interactive fan experience on Rally.TV, the official streaming platform of the FIA World Rally Championship. First launched on
The Universal Talent Identifier (HAND) has issued HAND IDs to 34 top projected prospects in the 2026 NBA Draft class, including AJ Dybantsa, Cameron Boozer, and Darryn Peterson. HAND describes
As sports venues continue to evolve into more video-centric, fan-engagement-driven environments, Metinteractive is bringing its AV, IT, and broadcast-integration expertise to the SVG community. The woman-owned technology-solutions firm designs, builds,
BBC Sport has partnered with sports organisation Goal Click to produce a fan-led video series during the upcoming FIFA World Cup. The collaboration will see the broadcaster leverage the sports storytelling platform’s global network to deliver short-form, first-person video content filmed by 10…
