Dodger Stadium Wi-Fi

Dodger Stadium went through some big changes at the end of last season heading into this year. One of the changes was to add Wi-Fi across Dodger Stadium. When the season started the plan was to have the Wi-Fi by the second home stand. When that didn’t happen it was obvious it was going to be more difficult as first anticipated. Dodgers’ president and Owner Stan Kasten recently discussed the Wi-Fi issue.

[box type=”shadow” ]The Wi-Fi has been the thorniest thing for me so far. It’s the thing I’m most disappointed that we haven’t gotten that yet. I would give you a long detailed explanation, but if any of you have ever been one person in one apartment, waiting for the cable guy, multiply that by 56,000 seats and lots and lots of different entities. It’s so much more complex than I could’ve imagined. It involves modern, state of the art signals in a ballpark that was built before the Internet was a word and we simply had to go right from Ground Zero to install that. We are two-thirds of the way in but there’s that last third that’s been tough to do, and I have learned through this process that until 100 percent, you’ve got nothing. We can’t turn it on yet but we are making progress. I promise you it’s as important to me as anyone here because I want to have streaming video. MLBAM, that’s how they live. And yeah, the second stream experience that we have — we watch TV in our phones and iPads and on our lap. It’s how we live. It’s how the younger generation, the next generation of fans expect to experience things. Baseball is uniquely positioned to take advantage of it because unlike the other sports, we have a discrete stop in the action every few seconds in between pitches where you can do other stuff. The other sports, they don’t score a lot but, you know, they’ll notch every second of time. Baseball, we can really encourage younger generations to come to our sport. I’m promised you I will have it. Now I’m not sure I’ll even get to it this year but I promise it’s coming because it’s so important.[/box]