The first Major League Baseball game to be live streamed on Facebook was bogged down by a 97-minute rain delay and a learning curve but also showed a willingness to listen and adapt — even mid-game. Last season, MLB streamed games on Facebook and Twitter that were simulcasts of regional broadcasts — Twitter will be […]
Major League Baseball is stepping up its live video chat capabilities through a partnership with The Video Call Center (VCC). The multi-year support relationship integrates VCC’s digital cloud and video call system into MLB Network’s operating headquarters in Secaucus, NJ to produce live, digital programs featuring guests and fans calling from video apps on their […]
When HDTV sets became widely available in the U.S. around 1998, it seemed TV couldn’t get more real. Colors were vivid, motion was crisp and sporting events looked like you were there in person. Twenty years later and our viewing experience is still improving, this time with AT&T DIRECTV’s launch of the first 4K High […]
Major League Baseball has announced that its revered Statcast system will now generate Hit Probability and Catch Probability ratings for batted balls this season. MLB plans to incorporate new Catch and Hit Probability metrics into its BaseballSavant.com searchable database, and to feature the content on MLB Network and MLB gameday broadcasts. New Hit and Catch […]
MLB Network and Swedish technology company Ericsson have announced a multi-year agreement that will bring Ericsson’s real-time 3D sports graphics software Piero for use on all of the television network’s programming. Ericsson and Piero’s capabilities will allow MLB Network to pair statistical analysis with 3D graphics alongside advanced statistics to give viewers a fighting chance to […]
