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Fan Controlled Football Gets Up-Close and Personal Audio
All players will be wired for sound in the FCF League’s second season By Dan Daley, Audio Editor Call it Fan Controlled Football 2.0. The FCF League is about to embark on its second season, bigger and definitely louder than ever. That’s in part because the league is...
SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2022: Tuesday’s Latest From Vegas
By SVG Staff Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 9:09 am The NAB Show has returned to Las Vegas, and the SVG and SVG Europe editorial teams are once again chasing down the hottest stories from all over the Las Vegas Convention Center. To make the onslaught of announcements...
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Natural Selection Tour Deploys Drone, Fully Wireless AV Infrastructure
Live-stabilized racing drone shadows snowboarders sliding down insanely steep slopes By Dan Daley, Audio Editor Thursday, February 3, 2022 - 11:17 am Print This Story | Subscribe Think of it as Winter X Games 2.0-Plus, only faster. The Natural Selection Tour brings...
Bodypacks, Part 1 — Wireless Transmitters Reflect RF-Industry Challenges
Spectrum changes, chip shortages, and encryption are major issues By Dan Daley, Audio Editor Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - 7:00 am Print This Story | Subscribe They’re small and getting smaller. They’re designed to be virtually invisible. They’re light enough to be...
NBA Tipoff 2021: Deploying an updated version of the Q5X PlayerMic
Precise control, clarity are the goals of the broadcaster’s audio effort By Dan Daley, Audio Editor Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 12:17 pm Print This Story | Subscribe When TNT Sports begins its NBA season this week, viewers can expect to hear the same great audio...
Down and Dirty: Derby Audio Goes Into the Ground
ESPN will have a fair share of the cameras covering the progress of tonight’s Derby, and its audio coverage is no less impressive. Tasked with bringing the crack of the bat and the feel of a towering home run, technicians have installed an array of microphones in...
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SVG SportsTech On Demand: Quantum5X’s Paul Johnson on Preparing New Tools for On-Player Sound
By Dan Daley, Audio Editor Monday, June 14, 2021 - 8:00 am Print This Story | Subscribe While the 2021 NAB Show has been moved to October, the spring season will still feature a cavalcade of new product releases and groundbreaking news coming out of the broadcast...
NBA Updates On-Court Wireless Audio With Q5X CoachMic
New device reflects stakeholders’ influence on product development By Dan Daley, Audio Editor Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 11:30 am Viewers listening to the coaches’ chatter during the March 7 NBA All-Star Game may not have noticed a difference, but there was one, and it...
AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh Takes Viewers Behind the Plate With Miked-Up Pirates Catcher for Spring Training
Jacob Stallings wore a mic/IFB for in-game interview while catching By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 1:46 pm Whether it’s in the dugout, on the field, or even via Facetime, MLB broadcasters are giving viewers more access than ever this Spring...
German Bundesliga club FC Cologne introduces player mics to ramp up audio excitement
By Heather McLean, Editor Monday, October 5, 2020 - 11:15 German Bundesliga football club FC Cologne has ramped up its audio coverage with the addition of player mics that will pick up every word said on the pitch. The club is continuing to develop its documentary...