Another Emmy for Stan Honey

Two-time Emmy recipient and Bay Area navigating legend Stan Honey helped LiveLine bring home a golden statue of its own this week. Honey, the director of technology for the America’s Cup Event Authority, led the team that developed LiveLine specifically for the AC, and on Monday, it received the Emmy for extraordinary technical innovation.

"The technology was developed exclusively for America’s Cup broadcasts by the America’s Cup Event Authority, Sportvision and NBC Sports Network," noted a press release, "and does what was previously impossible: overlay geo-positioned lines and data streams at two centimeter accuracy on live race course video shot from rapidly moving helicopter and water-based platforms.

"Driven by a GPS system that can track the America’s Cup catamarans to within a two-centimeter accuracy on the race course, event organizers leverage the system for on-the-water management of the sport. Telemetering of the course allows for rapid movement of marks and controlling course limits, while use of real-time overlap and zone-entry determinations enable umpires to make the most accurate decisions ever possible."

While Honey has received two personal Emmys for technical innovation in sports TV (the first-down line for football and the K-Zone for baseball), Sportsvision, the company he co-founded, earned six Emmys during his tenure as president. Congrats to Stan for yet another amazing win!