The business of sports tech, in brief.
SMT (SportsMEDIA Technology) is delivering on-air graphics and shot data for the Women’s Team Golf League (WTGL), which made its debut Sunday, Nov. 8, at SoFi Center in Palm Beach
Pay-TV broadcaster Sky Sports has secured exclusive live broadcast rights across the UK and Ireland for WTGL, the new tech-focused women’s team golf league launched in partnership with the LPGA Tour and TMRW Sports.
Sky Sports will broadcast the inaugural 2026 and 2027 seasons of the women’s TGL (WTGL) exclusively in the UK, as part of an expansion of its golf rights that also
Behind The Mic provides a roundup of recent news regarding on-air talent, including new deals, departures, and assignments compiled from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s
The PGA Tour announced Monday that Brian Gordon has joined PGA Tour Studios as executive producer and head of live content. He began with the Tour on Oct. 26 and
The Farmers Insurance Skins Game will return to Prime Video globally on Black Friday, Nov. 27, at 9 a.m. ET, with a new field competing for a $4 million purse
PGA TOUR continues to push deeper into automated and software-defined production from its PGA TOUR Studios facility in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. SVG caught up with Michael Raimondo, VP, Broadcast
The 2026 Presidents Cup is underway at Medinah Country Club outside of Chicago with Team USA and an International Team of men’s golfers facing off for four days of competition
WTGL, the women’s team golf league created by TMRW Sports in partnership with the LPGA, has announced its inaugural season schedule. The season premieres Sunday, November 8 on ESPN and
TMRW Sports in partnership with the LPGA, today announced multiyear U.S. media rights agreements with ESPN and Scripps Sports/ION to bring WTGL, the new women’s team golf league, to fans
The avatars of actual athletes have populated video-sports gaming for years. Platforms like NBA 2K26, EA Sports Madden NFL, EA Sports FC, and MLB The Show use real-world athlete likenesses,
Appear has announced that its X5 compact media processing platform is being used for live contribution workflows for DP World Tour golf events. Live coverage of the DP World Tour
Golf remains one of the more demanding sports to produce live. The field of play stretches across hundreds of acres, storylines can shift from hole to hole in an instant,
In 2022, when the PGA TOUR was breaking ground on its new, state-of-the-art broadcast facility in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, the global trajectory of golf was already on the up.
Slated to be tested on Rocket Classic coverage this weekend, the stream will feature graphics offering fun facts on Detroit, the history of the course, real-time player stats The PGA
The 154th Open Championship was a marvel of teamwork as the R&A, European Tour Productions, Gravity Media, NBC Sports, the Golf Channel, Sky Sports, and others collaborated to deliver one
When NEP designed one of its largest recurring mobile production unit fleets for PGA TOURcoverage, the leading media services provider faced a familiar challenge: creating a monitoringenvironment that would deliver
The broadcaster also looks forward to what’s next: the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Course Sky Sports is onsite at the 154th Open Championship at
With 42 RF cameras and high-power radio mics deployed, the spectrum environment is challenging at the coastal Royal Birkdale golf club The Open Championship is underway at Royal Birkdale in
In a return to Royal Birkdale, the team enjoys partnering with ETP and Gravity Media on a production marked by uncharacteristically hot weather The NBC Sports golf-production team has a
