Watching sports inside a venue is a communal and shared experience, and the Portland Trail Blazers' Moda Center has become a more inclusive environment this season. Striking a deal with OneCourt, an innovative company that develops devices with generative audio and haptics for blind and low-visio...

The College Football Playoff National Championship is always the goal for any Division I program, and similar to the players on the field, the creative team behind the scenes begins every season during the spring. In a season that traverses the hot summer months and continues into the chill of fa...

In its second season, the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) is taking its show on the road. In a series of nine games hosted in "neutral site" cities, the PWHL Takeover Tour is designed to expand the new league's reach and grow the game of women's hockey.

On January 12, a game between th...

Avi Bar-Zeev brings a wealth of experience from his senior engineering and prototyping roles at leading tech companies like Microsoft, Linden Labs, Amazon, and Apple (notably with the Apple Vision Pro), his role as co-founder and director at Keyhole which evolved into Google Earth, and designing ...

The new Golden Globe-nomiated film "September 5" revisits the live broadcast of the 1972 Munich Olympics tragedy, telling the story through the eyes of the ABC Sports production team as they reported on the hostage crisis. Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer Geoffrey Mason, who was at the center of...

Sports leagues, teams, and federations continue to take advantage of technology to connect with fans in new ways, enhance their broadcast productions, and improve everything from player safety to instant replay operations. Learn how leagues, teams, and federations are looking for out of next-gene...

A massive chunk of broadcasts in their inaugural season of the Utah Hockey Club have been produced over the air on Utah 16 and through SEG Media's direct-to-consumer platform, UtahHC+. Director Paul Hemming, an individual who's been directing NHL games for over 25 years at the local and national ...

ESPN is back with its latest real-time animated alternate presentation of an NFL game: "The Simpsons Funday Football."

Iconic characters from The Simpsons will join an animated recreation of the Monday Night Football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Dallas Cowboys and it'll all be mad...

This has been the fall of several professional franchises taking their regional live game productions and distribution in-house. Among them is the NHL's Seattle Kraken which, in September, launched the Kraken Hockey Network.

Through this new division, the team can now deliver live games to a mas...

As Generation AI evolves, organizations are exploring how AI tools can create value and drive efficiency. While the potential is immense, the path to adoption is still unclear. This panel will examine the needs of sports production and broadcasting organizations, where and how Gen AI is being app...

2024 has been a busy, yet important year in the history of 3 Point Productions. The creative production company has continued a relationship with four WNBA clubs: the Atlanta Dream, Seattle Storm, Las Vegas Aces, and Chicago Sky; created a stronger bond with a handful of initiatives in the NBA, i...

As audiences demand higher-quality, lower-latency viewing experiences, sports broadcasters face both unprecedented challenges and exciting opportunities. The day kicks off with a panel of seasoned broadcasters and industry experts exploring the current state and future of live sports transmission...

The ability to have hardware compute exist in the cloud as opposed to being at the venue or even in a remote production hub promises to increase the popularity of remote workflows. Cloud service providers discuss how cloud-based production services will open up new ways to produce sports content....

Be it a greater viewer familiarity with streaming, a stronger game schedule, or something else, TNF has seen its ratings spike in 2024. Entering Week 9, TNF is averaging 13.22 million viewers, an increase of +11% over TNF on Prime’s 2023 season average (11.86M), and +38% above the 2022 TNF season...

On Thursday, November 14, 2024, the 4th annual ESPN Edge Innovation Conference will take place in New York City and showcase some of the network's latest work in innovation, technology, and storytelling.

ESPN has spent more than 45 years embracing groundbreaking technological innovations to bett...

Dodgers Stadium and Yankee Stadium are perfect locales for any Fall Classic, but in 2024, the environments surrounding these locations are being accentuated by a pair of drones in the sky. Beverly Hills Aerials, the cinematic drone company that has become a trusted production partner of FOX Sport...

The NHL continues to embrace new cloud-based live productions, most recently using the cloud to create a main broadcast as well as an alternate feed. The NHL’s Grant Nodine and AWS’ Andrew Reich take to the stage to discuss the project, the technologies involved, and what it means not only to the...

Attending a World Series game is a bucket-list item for many baseball fans, but producing the in-venue experience for your home crowd is an indescribable feeling for production professionals at any club in Major League Baseball. In the case of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the gameday productions of t...

Sony Corporation made a big sports splash earlier this month when it acquired KinaTrax, Inc. (“KinaTrax”), a research-grade markerless motion capture technology for sports that collects in-game biomechanical performance data on athletes.

KinaTrax joins Hawk-Eye, Beyond Sports, and Pulselive to f...

Discover how creative technology companies, marketing agencies, and storytellers are dreaming up and activating the engaging experiences for stadium, unique entertainment venues, and location-based experiences. This session will uncover how immersive technologies, interactive content, and digital...

ESPN's Monday Night Football is in the thick of, perhaps, its busiest stretch of the entire season. Fresh off back-to-back weeks of two-game nights, the crew is now headed to Arrowhead as the New Orleans Saints visit the defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs to close out NFL Week 5.

N...

After opening in Prague over the weekend, the NHL 2024-25 season begins in North America tonight with an opening night tripleheader on ESPN and ESPN+. ESPN’s NHL studio show, The Point, is emanating live from the Delta Center in Salt Lake City with a GameDay-style atmosphere celebrating the highl...

It was a sad day in the city of Oakland - and for baseball fans at large - on Sept. 26, when the Oakland A's played their final game at the Oakland Coliseum, a stadium and city the team have called home for more than half a century.

The team's regional sports network partner, NBC Sports Californ...

When women's soccer legend Alex Morgan announced on Thursday that she would be retiring from the game, the NWSL opted to go the extra mile to make sure her final outing on Sunday would be available to as many fans as possible. After a flurry of logistical maneuvering behind the scenes over the ne...