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Stadium Tech Report

December 22nd, 2024

Paul Kapustka

News

Cisco signs sponsor deals with NFL, Paris Olympics

Networking vendor Cisco announced sponsorship deals with the NFL and with the 2024 Paris Olympics Tuesday, separate deals that should both increase the exposure of Cisco's name in conversations about football and the Olympics in the near future. For stadium owners and operators, the more potentially interesting deal is between Cisco and the NFL, since many NFL stadiums currently use...

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Globe Life Field picks Appetize to power all concessions, retail

When the Texas Rangers opened their 2021 season this week with a full house at Globe Life Field, the fans present got the first taste of an all-Appetize system powering concessions and retail operations, much of it designed to provide safer, contact-free interactions. While the new stadium did host limited crowds for last fall's MLB playoffs and World Series, Monday's...

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Editorial

For stadium concessions, the digital revolution is here

Goodbye, old-style walk-up concessions stand. I won't miss you. I won't miss waiting in line behind someone who is "buying for everyone," trying to remember food and drink combinations for the family or the group of friends, then watching concession-stand employees ring up an order, put food items together, take payment and make change. These things should have disappeared from...

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News

New Report: FC Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium ready to open

Stadium Tech Report is pleased to announce our Spring 2021 issue, with a profile of the technology being deployed at FC Cincinnati's new TQL Stadium (formerly known as West End Stadium, before a new sponsorship deal closed on April 21, 2021). With an eye toward making the fan experience better and safer, the Atomic Data-led deployment of Wi-Fi, entry and...

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News

Baseball opens season, with socially distanced fans

Major League Baseball opened its 2021 season across the U.S. Thursday, with fans in the parks for pretty much the first time in a year. Since the Covid-19 pandemic put live audiences mostly to a halt last March, there had been no fans at MLB games until some limited-attendance experiments at the end of the season. Over the past year,...

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