Let’s hear it for the NFL. NFL Films executive Vince Caputo is certainly listening. For him, football is as much about the sounds as the sights. He headed a years-long NFL Films project to build a ...

Wendel Stevens has spent decades mixing sound for live football broadcasts. During a game, he's thinking about the sound of the announcers' voices, when to play the iconic theme music, what players ...

One of Molly Solomon's favorite memories from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics was watching Lindsey Vonn in the start house. Cameras would focus on the skiing great, with microphones picking up her ...

Even with more than 20,000 fans expected at Super Bowl LV, the NFL will still provide artificial crowd noise for Sunday’s broadcast, as it has for every game this season. But the league won’t be using ...

When Major League Baseball needed to solve the problem of silent stadiums during the COVID-19 pandemic, the league looked to the iPad. To provide simulated crowd noises during the 2020 season, MLB ...

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