COMPANY HISTORY

Sportvision’s
core competency
is developing innovative real-time technologies that bring the privileged view to the fanSportvision’s roots are in three founding partners who were former senior executives at News Corporation and Fox Sports. It was there that one of the founders, Stan Honey, conceived and supervised the development of the FoxTrax “glowing” hockey puck under the direction of Fox executives Rupert Murdoch and David Hill. After the launch of the FoxTrax hockey puck, one of the highest–profile sports broadcast innovations in the 1990’s, Sportvision was founded in 1998 with a seed round of financing and a vision to develop technological enhancements that could be used in game broadcasts and sponsored by advertisers. Through several rounds of venture capital financing and the development of landmark products such as the virtual yellow 1st and Ten line™, KZone™ virtual strike zone, and the RACEf/x system on NASCAR broadcasts, Sportvision quickly became the dominant player in the industry.

The company’s six-year deal with NASCAR has brought ground-breaking GPS tracking to motorsports through the RACEf/x System --Sportvision’s most advanced System. As a major contributor to NASCAR’s phenomenal growth over the past several years, the RACEf/x System enables avid NASCAR fans not at the track to easily follow their favorite driver, on television, the internet, wireless or Pay-Per-View applications. Further, Sportvision’s Emmy-winning KZone baseball system underscores the potential of the company’s Virtual Imaging capability by outlining the strike zone for each batter, and tracking each pitch to within 4/10ths of an inch. The Virtual Imaging system has been utilized for other sports, notably by ESPN on Sunday Night Football telecasts and by Turner Sports on its NBA broadcasts.

Sportvision’s core competency is developing innovative real-time technologies that bring the privileged view to the fan, for aspects of sport that are:

Hard or impossible to see

Happen a lot

Central to the understanding of the game or sport

What makes Sportvision unique is our ability to develop a broad range of technologies that meets the needs of fans, sports properties, media companies and marketers. By creating technologies that meet their collective needs, Sportvision is truly "changing the game."

In 2002, Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal cited Sportvision as having created eight of the most important technological innovations in televised sports dating back to 1939, while ESPN --celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2004, cited the Yellow 1st and Ten Line as the 7th biggest innovation over the last 25 years, ranking ahead of high profile innovations such as USA Today, eBay, Instant replay, Sports Talk Radio, Bowl Championship Series (BCS), Salary Caps, The Dream Team, and more.