The oft-told standard in baseball is that a 90-mile-per-hour fastball takes four-tenths of a second to reach home plate and, because the act of swinging a bat takes about half the time, a hitter must identify the pitch, its expected location and decide what to do in about 0.2 seconds. Those numbers seem small and […]
More video is being produced and distributed than ever before. In this new media landscape, speed has become critical for sports leagues, teams, and broadcasters looking to prosper in today’s insatiable market for video content. The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) summed up today’s realities in their NAB 2017 The Need for Speed report: “There are […]
Spectators watching the 2020 Olympics will likely notice something different about the taekwondo competition. When the Summer Games go to Tokyo, martial arts fans will be able to watch taekwondo in 360-degree 4K video, according to an announcement from World Taekwondo. The ultra high-definition panoramic cameras would bring fans unprecedented views of the fighters’ technique […]
NEW YORK — Having started at the top of the North American sporting landscape with its 2016 NFL streaming deal, Twitter has gained the confidence of having produced a “best-in-class product” and has grown an understanding of its unique standing in the broadcast rights marketplace, said Laura Froelich, the network’s global head of sports partnerships. […]
Overtime is a sports technology and media startup that is focused on the teenaged athletes who are on a trajectory to be stars in the future. Players like Zion Williamson, Luther Muhammad and LaMelo Ball are the kind of transcendent basketball talents that Overtime wants to focus its coverage on. Overtime also has a big-name […]
