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Las Vegas launch site gains momentum

Plans for a rocket launch site near Las Vegas are reportedly getting closer to the development stage. Las Vegas Spaceport, headed by Robert Lauer, has confirmed it has signed a partnership with O-G Launch, a business headed by Robert Feierbach. The plan is to develop a spaceport covering 240 acres of desert land between Vegas […]

August 29, 2023By Chris Forrester

Las Vegas wants rocket launch site

A Las Vegas real estate developer wants to build a spaceport on 240 acres of near-desert scrub in Clark County. Rob Lauer, the developer, is seeking to raise $310 million (€284.4m) to build a launch pad, a runway for spaceplanes, a control tower and a flight-training school. Also in the plan is a 200-room hotel […]

July 4, 2023By Chris Forrester

AEW, Joe Hand promotions bring AEW Double or Nothing to cinemas and bars

AEW and Joe Hand Promotions will bring the annual AEW Double or Nothing pay-per-view event to select cinemas, bars and restaurants across North America on May 28th Taking place live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in front of a packed house, wrestling fans across the US can catch the action in participating AMC, […]

May 24, 2023By Nik Roseveare

NAB Show to explore next-gen of content delivery systems

The NAB Show Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference will offer forward-focused insights into the technical issues, challenges and opportunities affecting the future of content delivery ecosystems. Produced in partnership with the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and the North American Broadcasters Association, the conference will run April 15–18, 2023 […]

February 24, 2023

MSG sends ultra high-res camera into space

Madison Square Garden’s Sphere Studios has worked with Nanoraks and the International Space Station’s ISS National Lab to send an ultra-special camera up to the ISS. On this mission, MSG Sphere Studios sent the highest-resolution camera system ever launched to the ISS to establish critical baseline knowledge in microgravity conditions and the harsh environment of […]

November 9, 2022

DAZN, Fathom Events bring Canelo vs Triple G to US cinemas

In a boxing rubber match, Saul Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy ‘GGG; Golovkin, two of the Sweet Science’s all-time pound-for-pound greats, will confront each other a for a third time on September 17th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Thanks to a partnership between DAZN and Fathom Events, fight fans across the US will be […]

August 17, 2022

Lickd partners with Decentraland’s Vegas City

Lickd, the platform for helping content creators legally use music, has signed an exclusive deal with metaverse district Vegas City within Decentraland, which will see it provide commercial music to Vegas City’s partners and tenants. The 2 year partnership will see Lickd supply curated playlists and genre specific radio channels into Vegas City’s music player, […]

July 5, 2022

WWE Moonsault debuts Money in the Bank NFTs

WWE’s official NFT marketplace, WWE Moonsault, has debuted its second official collection of WWE NFT Flips in advance of July 2nd’s annual premium live event, Money in the Bank, featuring Superstars Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins, Becky Lynch, Omos, Liv Morgan, Drew McIntyre, Alexa Bliss and Riddle at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The […]

July 1, 2022

Research: Consumers remain sceptical on 8K

8K is failing to appeal to consumers, Omdia’s Senior Director, Media and Entertainment Maria Rua Aguete has said at a session on the reality of UHD deployments at the 2022 NAB Show. According to Omdia, shipments of 8K TVs accounted for just 0.15 per cent of all TV shipments in 2021. This translated to a […]

April 28, 2022

Fincons Group launches AllRights

Fincons Group, an international system integrator with key experience in the media & broadcast sector in the US and Europe, has launched its new comprehensive rights management solution at the NAB Show 2022. This unique solution responds to urgent market demand for a unique and centralised enterprise-view of content rights that matches their fluid approach […]

April 27, 2022