by Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, SVG News
With new teams and new venues to adapt to, the spring-football league’s partners continue to innovate and enhance their productions
The UFL has always served as an ideal environment for its media partners, ESPN and FOX Sports, to experiment with new production technology. That will continue during the spring-football league’s third season, which kicks off tonight in Louisville, but the league itself will have a very different look.
In addition to launching three new teams and eliminating the two-conference format, the league has shifted away from large NFL and college football stadiums toward smaller, more intimate MLS soccer venues — a strategic move to bring fans closer to the action and create a tighter game-day atmosphere.
Because the soccer-centric stadiums hosting UFL games this year were not necessarily designed for football production, extensive broadcast infrastructure — including new JBT boxes and thousands of strands of fiber cabling — had to be installed at five of the eight UFL home stadiums (the league’s other three teams/venues did not require significant changes).
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