Largest LED display in US college football to be unveiled

AV Magazine: The largest main video display in US college football is to be unveiled at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The 1,600 sq metres LED display is one of 16 from vendor Daktronics that will have a combined surface area of 2,500 sq metres.

Fast skates, high stakes: the raucous roller derby show taking over Sydney town hall

Theatre | The Guardian: The roller derby skater Maddy “BB Gun” Wilkinson has speed and scale on her side. The 24-year-old jammer (primary point-scorer) for the Adelaide team the Wild Hearses is 156cm tall (“I push just 5’ 1”, maybe”) and easily weaves between small gaps left by the opposing team, shielded by taller teammates from the scanning eyes of their rivals.

Nancy Faust transformed the sound of baseball

Chicago Reader: In 20 years, the Secret History of Chicago Music has never covered a stadium organist. I’ll admit, that’s not just because there aren’t many of them—it’s mostly because I’m not a huge sports fan. I’ll roll a bowling ball every once in a while, and I don’t mind a baseball game on a nice day, but that’s as far as it goes. I realize this makes me a heretic in the midwest, but I’m not alone—when researching this story, I discovered to my relief that Nancy Faust likewise wasn’t big into sports growing up.

Ross Expands Graphics LED Display Control Rendering Capabilities with Tessera One

Creative COW: Ross Video irreversibly changed the world of graphics rendering in 2017 with the launch of XPression Tessera, a product developed specifically to enable sports and entertainment venues to drive pre-rendered and real-time rendered graphics on any resolution LED display at limitless pixel resolutions. Now, Ross is excited to announce the release of XPression Tessera One – a new all-in-one solution that provides over six million broadcast-quality pixels to drive engaging content to venue LED displays and video walls in news studios.

Esports event is 'one of largest virtual productions ever'

www.avinteractive.com: The live championship for the multiplayer action real-time strategy game Dota2 was one of the largest and most ambitious virtual production events ever held. The 10-day live production generated 125 hours of live content and more than 2,000 hours overall, and broke all previous viewing records, with the grand final watched live or replayed by 100 million unique viewers across all platforms, making it the most-watched Dota 2 event ever.

How much do performers get paid for the Super Bowl halftime show?

ktvb.com: The pinnacle of nationwide, televised performances is perhaps none other than the annual Super Bowl halftime show. But it may surprise you to know that despite all the extravaganza and hefty price tag to operate the halftime show, the NFL ends up paying the singers and headline performers nothing.

Proud Boys Threaten Colin Kaepernick's Miniseries Production

Consequence of Sound: The filming location for the Netflix miniseries about Colin Kaepernick is on high security alert after a reported threat from the right-wing Proud Boys organization. On Friday, as TMZ reports, the anti-Black Lives Matter group was allegedly planning to protest the production about the former NFL quarterback-turned-civil rights icon.

Firehouse Productions Brings Live Energy to NBA Bubble With JBL Professional Audio Solutions

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: To bring the energy and excitement of a typical basketball experience to an NBA season that was anything but typical, Firehouse Productions deployed two complete Harman Professional Solutions audio systems featuring state-of-the-art JBL Professional loudspeakers and Crown amplifiers.

NFL game broadcasts in 2020: Explaining the fake crowd noise, other TV oddities amid COVID-19

Sporting News: The NFL's TV partners are doing everything they can to make sure game broadcasts in 2020 look more like what viewers are accustomed to and less like reality. But the reality that is a pro football season being played amid a global pandemic can't be completely hidden.

Robe on the Rig for NHL Return to Play

LightSoundJournal.com: North America’s National Hockey League (NHL) spectacularly returned to play – without live audiences but with massive enthusiasm, determination and impressive TV and online followings – for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoff series which had been suspended in April during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Virtual Pandemic Sports Fans Ranked: From Lil Wayne to Cereal and Stuffed Bears

www.esquire.com: Someday, when this is all over—cotton masks shoved away, untouched, in the back of your sock drawer—we’ll look back at this moment in American sports. And we'll say what the fuck. The NBA plays its games within miles of It’s a Small World. The MLB is one big game of catch the coronavirus. The NFL expanded its rosters so that teams can inevitably funnel in healthy players to replace the sick ones. The NCAA is waging a legitimate civil war, college football one giant free-for-all where schools are playing whatever teams are left standing and willing to risk it.

What Arts Organizations Can Learn From Sports: The NBA

AMT Lab @ CMU: This week, AMT Lab has been investigating what lessons arts organizations can learn from sports as they seek to provide engaging digital experiences for audiences. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most prestigious and well-known basketball league in the world, making it imperative that they continue to engage their fans during the pandemic while securing revenue from broadcasts. They found solutions that would permit fans, specifically younger generations, to continue to interact with each other during the games—something that arts organizations could apply to their virtual performances.

What Arts Organizations Can Learn From Sports in the New Normal

AMT Lab @ CMU: The following study is part of an Arts in the Age of Covid research team project. This study is compiled from the research conducted and summaries articulated by Clara Perez Alfaro and is being published as a three-part series. The first introduces the similarities and potential opportunities that arts organizations, particularly performing arts institutions, can find by studying how the sports industry is adapting post-Covid-19. The second and third focus on two specific cases: La Liga and the NBA.

Women’s Roller Derby Has a Plan for Covid, and It Kicks Ass

WIRED: When the pandemic hit, the world of women’s roller-derby spun into action. On April 6, an international governing body for the sport, the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, put out a call for public health professionals in their midst to come together and devise a plan. Mikaela Kosich (derby name: Bubble Wrath), a biostatistician at the University of New Mexico, heeded the call. So did Nikki McCorristin (derby name: Trauma), an infection control nurse in Salt Lake City, and Bobbiejean Garcia (derby name: BG Smack), an epidemiologist in Houston. In the end, close to two dozen athlete-experts from six countries collaborated on the sport’s return-to-play guidelines.

Spanish soccer returns with computer-generated crowds, and it actually works

The Verge: Sports are gradually returning to our TV screens after the coronavirus pandemic brought virtually all competition around the world to a sudden halt. If you’re as big a sports addict as me, you’ll probably take what you can get right now, but the broadcast experiences I’ve watched so far haven’t been all that satisfying. It’s a little hard to get excited when you’re watching players celebrate in deafening silence in a cavernous, empty German arena.