EFL matches in Cosm venues
November 27, 2024
CBS Sports and Cosm have announced that select English Football League (EFL) matches will be presented in shared reality at Cosm’s immersive entertainment venues in Los Angeles and Dallas. The partnership will see a minimum of six Sky Bet EFL matches broadcast, commencing December 3rd, with a further additional EFL match at Cosm to be announced at a later date.
Cosm is the innovative experience, broadcasting and replicating live sports events within a theatre, cinema or auditorium environment on a 180-degree, domed screen. The immersive-experience technology simulates the experience of audiences attending the stadium ground, when they are simply in a specially built auditorium.
Confirmed matches include:
- Wrexham v Barnsley – Tuesday 3 December, 2.45pm (ET)
- Sheffield United v Burnley – Thursday 26 December, 10.00am (ET)
- Wrexham v Birmingham City – Thursday 23 January, 3.00pm (ET)
- Coventry City v Leeds United – Saturday 8 February, 10.00am (ET)
- Huddersfield Town v Wrexham – Tuesday 4 March, 7.45pm (ET)
* Match start time is subject to moving for broadcast, as part of domestic TV selections made beyond the end of February
The arrangement has been made possible by CBS – the international broadcast partner for EFL competition matches in the US from the start of the 2024/25 season – partnering with Cosm.
Cosm install several discreet 8K cameras around a match stadium to capture all angles, with no interruption to the regular production output. This is then ‘stitched’ together to create the unique wide-angle effect that recreates being in the ground itself.
The two custom-built Cosm centres are now active in showing sports events, following partnerships with CBS, Fox Sports, ESPN and other US rights holders to deliver a variety of sports events including NFL and NBA.