The business of sports tech, in brief.
Twenty-five years ago this week, Andy Freedman landed one of his first gigs in the sports television industry. There was just one catch: he didn’t have a place to sleep.
EVS and Matrox Video have announced a technology partnership integrating Matrox ORIGIN with EVS’ CEREBRUM control and monitoring system and the EVS media processing ecosystem. The integration will be demonstrated
Gravity Media has appointed Alex Pannell as Chief Business Officer. Pannell joins from Appear, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer. He will be based in London. In the newly
World Team Tennis (WTT) has announced a broadcast partnership with USA Sports, the sports division of Versant. USA Sports will air all six of WTT’s live matches exclusively on CNBC
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
Pac-12 Enterprises will produce all broadcasts in the 22-game schedule It’s time to buckle up, folks: Pac-12 Football is headed to USA Sports. After announcing a five-year partnership back in
One of sports television’s all-time great properties hits a milestone this weekend as the college football season gets underway. This weekend in Baton Rouge, College GameDay will mark its 500th
Facility becomes permanent home of NFL Live on Sept. 9; centerpiece studio for college football, NHL In what the network is calling its “most technologically advanced studio ever built,” Studio
With another academic year underway, college athletic departments across the country are once again firing up control rooms and producing hundreds of live events for broadcast, streaming, in-venue presentation, and
Year 2 of Big 12 coverage opens Saturday at West Virginia with a larger technical complement, centralized graphics workflow, and SMT integration College football is becoming a bigger part of
Yahoo Sports and Apple TV have announced a partnership to deliver alternate broadcasts of select Friday Night Baseball and MLS games on the Yahoo Sports website and app, featuring commentary
College football has long represented one of the largest and most complicated weekly production undertakings at ESPN. In 2026, that sprawling operation is getting another technological lift. Across its college-football
EverPass Media has announced a multi-year commercial distribution agreement with Netflix, expanding on an existing partnership that has delivered NFL Christmas Day games and Netflix-exclusive boxing events to bars and
The Orlando Magic announced today that DAZN will serve as the Magic’s exclusive direct-to-consumer streaming partner for the 2026-27 season. All Magic regular season games, excluding national exclusives, will stream
Fujifilm North America Corporation’s Optical Devices Division has announced the FUJINON UA94x8.7BESM (UA94x8.7), a box zoom lens for 2/3-inch sensor broadcast cameras. Initial orders are expected to ship by mid-October
ESPN has renewed its media rights agreement for the Secretaries’ Cup rivalry between the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the United States Coast Guard Academy through 2030. The five-year
Canon U.S.A. has announced upcoming firmware updates for its PTZ camera lineup, scheduled for availability in October 2026. Updates apply to the CR-N700, CR-N500, CR-N400, CR-N350, CR-N300, CR-N100, CR-X300, and
Telemundo has acquired exclusive U.S. Spanish-language media rights to the Serie A Championship, Coppa Italia, and Supercoppa Italiana for three seasons beginning with 2026/27 through 2028/29. Coverage will air across
The Orlando Magic and Gray Media have announced a partnership to telecast approximately 70 regular season games for viewers in Gainesville, Panama City, and Tallahassee during the 2026-27 season. All
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) announced that it has chosen walk-through scanning technology startup Xonar to provide security screening devices for Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., the first large pro arena customer win for the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Xonar. While other new…
