New technology allows fans to listen to broadcast without delay in stadium

CHARLOTTE — Remember when your grandparents told you about taking a transistor radio to the ball game, so they could listen to the radio broadcast, adding a layer to the live experience?

Now you can do that with your smartphone, without the annoying delay. It's like sitting next Jake Delhomme and Luke Kuechly and the rest of the Panthers Radio Network, wherever you are in the stadium.

Thanks to a new ultra-low-latency streaming capability provided by StreamGuys, fans inside Bank of America Stadium will be able to listen to the broadcast live — and without the usual delays — on the Panthers app.

In the past, listening on the app or even a terrestrial radio broadcast included a lag of several seconds, which could put a fan behind the action.

Now, you can hear the insight of the Panther