Today in the CBO
News and Notes - Reports from around the Commonwealth
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
11 May 2296 - E.S.A.U. Initiative Introduced to CBO, Commonwealth
Diamond City - CBO Commissioner Nate Howard held a live press conference on Diamond City Radio today detailing the new technology for the CBO and later the Commonwealth.
The technology, called the E.S.A.U. (pronounced ee-saw, according to Howard) Initiative, or Electronic Stadium Amplification Unit, will allow stadiums to send out real-time box scores and game logs so that everyone knows what is happening around the league at the same time. In other words, real-time scores and statistics so that broadcasters can relay those scores and stats to listeners. That way, fans can follow their favorite teams regardless of where they are in the Commonwealth, as long as they have console or Pip-Boy access or as long as they can tune in to Diamond City Radio or WRVR.
Three ESAUs were tested in the Institute League over the weekend where Diamond City Radio was able to provide real-time stats of players in relation to the rest of the league, including knowing what other scores were that day without having a runner pass on the information. Since all games in the IL were played at different times, it was not relevant for the weekend, but Week 7 will allow radio hosts and intraweb users to access real-time information, an exciting addition for relaying information and improving interest in the CBO.
Howard also expressed that his hope is to further tie in the technology outside the CBO so that people could communicate and learn of news throughout the Commonwealth. Though there is intraweb access on a limited basis, the ESAUs, currently being installed in 24 stadiums across the Commonwealth, will greatly help in connecting the Commonwealth as one.
One problem the ESAU Initiative has encountered is interference because of radstorms. Because the intraweb is radio-based, any static charges caused by radstorms will render the ESAU technology useless at the time. However, radstorms also interfere with life in general, so baseball games and radio broadcasts are stopped during active radstorms anyway. Thankfully for us, those radstorms are generally finished within one or two hours.
Howard also mentioned the efforts of others involved in the ESAU Initiative, including Publick Occurrences' very own (and my sister) Piper Wright. Wright has obtained the Commonwealth rights to BosCom, in association with her media company Pipercom, in hopes of one day bringing back television to the Commonwealth. Wouldn't it be exciting to not only hear the games, but to watch them on television when we cannot be there? I know I would love that. Future announcements on the BosCom venture will become available later since the technology still needs some work.
Also involved in the talks included: Hubris Comics' Kent Connolly, research and technology scientists of the Institute, and one crazy guy from the Railroad who goes by the name Tinker Tom who ranted for several minutes about the dangers of gremlins. We here at Publick Occurences are not aware of what gremlins are.
Twelve of the ESAUs will be in use this weekend for games starting Thursday, May 14. Although Diamond City will not host a game this weekend, Howard showed off the technology by communicating live information from Starlight Drive-In with Starlight Lady Killers' owner Irish Cait.