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 ...

Big league players will still hear the roar of the crowd even though the stands will be empty when the baseball season opens next week. Taking a cue from two European soccer leagues, Major League ...

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 ...

Have you been tuning into Major League Baseball’s shortened spring training games? As with every other sports league and virtually every event, there are no fans in the stands due to COVID-19. In a ...

Sport is slowly returning, but there’s something missing. Without fans, the experience is somehow lacking. In the German Bundesliga, dramatic late goals are met with sporadic clapping and echoing, ...

Twitch star Kai Cenat's claims about the crowd's reaction during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show have gone viral. During a livestream on February 11, 2025, the New Yorker reacted to a ...

Get ready to hear the familiar noises of an MLB crowd this season, even in empty stadiums. MLB plans to play fake crowd noise through its ballpark sound systems during games in the shortened 2020 ...

In a time when sports on TV looks and sounds different than it ever has, here's how today's most popular scripted sports show made its stadiums sound full. Theoretically, making a stadium filled with ...