Welcome to the Good News Ride Home for Friday, June 12th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

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As sports competitions return with empty stadiums, many leagues and networks are experimenting with ways

to make sure the at-home viewing experience is still enjoyable and familiar. When the K-League,

South Korea's soccer league, resumed games at the start of May, they occasionally piped in

recorded crowd noises over the loud speakers. When Germany's Bundesliga returned at the start of June,

they went one further, and rather than playing crowd noises over the loud

speakers where it might disturb the players, they added it in for the broadcast only. It included

cheering for the goals with louder ones for the home team, quoting the BBC. An audio carpet

for the basic noise is taken from the previous meeting and it's mixed with

the real noise of the game. Reaction samples for scenarios such as penalties, fouls, and

decisions from VAR are created and inserted by a watching producer. End quote. When the Premier

League in England returns next week, viewers on Sky Sports and BT Sports will have the option

to turn crowd noise on or off. In Spain, however, they are taking it one step further.

La Liga returned yesterday not just with artificial crowd noise, but an artificial crowd.

They partnered with EA Sports for the reactive crowd noise and with

Norwegian Broadcasting Tech Company Vizert for the computer-generated stadium crowd.

Quoting The Verge. The virtual fans aren't CGI representations of individual humans like you'd

see in FIFA 20. Instead, the stands are blanketed in a static texture that does a

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