The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / New Tech Lets You Listen To Sports Radio Game Coverage With No Delay

**Posted by RadioActive** August 8, 2025 10:48 am

I don't think they have this here yet, but if you've ever been to a Jays' game and are sitting in the nosebleed section, it's tempting to listen to the radio call to help follow along. That was fine in the days when you brought an actual radio with you, but if you stream the broadcast on your phone or an app, you get that irritating delay between what's happening on the field and when you actually hear about it.

That doesn't happen anymore in the home of the Carolina Panthers. New technology installed at the stadium allows fans to listen to the game over their phones or app in real time with no lag.

"Thanks to a new ultra-low-latency streaming capability provided by StreamGuys, fans inside Bank of America Stadium will be able to listen to the broadcast live — and without the usual delays — on the Panthers app.

In the past, listening on the app or even a terrestrial radio broadcast included a lag of several seconds, which could put a fan behind the action."

It's a great idea and hopefully more arenas will consider copying the idea.

New technology allows fans to listen to broadcast without delay in stadium

**Posted by RadioAaron** August 8, 2025 11:01 am

Neat.

Don't know if it's still the case, but for a while some NHL arenas had low-power FM signals simulcasting the broadcasts since AM doesn't work well in that environment.

**Posted by torontostan** August 8, 2025 1:01 pm

RadioAaron wrote:
Neat.

Don't know if it's still the case, but for a while some NHL arenas had low-power FM signals simulcasting the broadcasts since AM doesn't work well in that environment.

Scotiabank Arena allegedly still has it, but only for Leaf games.. on 89.9

**Posted by Forward Power** August 9, 2025 12:52 pm

RadioAaron wrote:
Don't know if it's still the case, but for a while some NHL arenas had low-power FM signals simulcasting the broadcasts since AM doesn't work well in that environment.

Also the case in major-junior, notably the OHL. About 15 years ago, when 88.7 myFM in Napanee had the radio rights to the Kingston Frontenacs, both home and away games, I was part of the tech team that installed a low-power transmitter inside what was then known as the Rogers K-Rock Centre, later the Leon's Centre and now Slush Puppie Place. We had a receive antenna on the roof of the rink, and attached to a platform in the rafters were an equipment cabinet, and a transmit antenna hanging down. In the cabinet were a fixed-frequency FM receiver tuned to 88.7, and a little Decade transmitter set to 90.1. There was no more than maybe half a second of delay on the broadcast, less when the commentators were using the newer Tieline IP codec and not the older Comrex POTS box.

**Posted by Shorty Wave** August 10, 2025 7:47 am

I was in the nosebleeds last Sunday and could have used something like this, as I had forgot my binoculars!

**Posted by torontostan** August 10, 2025 2:59 pm

Forward Power wrote:
Also the case in major-junior, notably the OHL. About 15 years ago, when 88.7 myFM in Napanee had the radio rights to the Kingston Frontenacs, both home and away games, I was part of the tech team that installed a low-power transmitter inside what was then known as the Rogers K-Rock Centre, later the Leon's Centre and now Slush Puppie Place. We had a receive antenna on the roof of the rink, and attached to a platform in the rafters were an equipment cabinet, and a transmit antenna hanging down. In the cabinet were a fixed-frequency FM receiver tuned to 88.7, and a little Decade transmitter set to 90.1. There was no more than maybe half a second of delay on the broadcast, less when the commentators were using the newer Tieline IP codec and not the older Comrex POTS box.

Did anyone use it?