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fanzone en · NOUN

Etymology

From fan + zone: Originally a capitalized brand name for an official version of the sports venue and for the website.

Meanings

1. A website that allows fans to chat, post commentary, link to feeds of games, etc, as well as the option to view fan commentary from such a site.
   • The fanzone allows users to post content including videos, text, audio files, and photographs to extra Time servers based in London to be shared among other fans of sporting clubs, 2019, Andrew Murray, Information Technology Law: The Law and Society, page 272:
   • Each football game was covered by ten cameras and was supplemented by such innovations as instant highlights of a game in progress, the player-cam, the fanzone commentary, the clean feed without commentary and, for the Ryder Cup, the option of the American commentary. 2016, Geoff Ward, Peter J. Anderson, The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, page 161:
   • A fanzone format includes fan access with contributors via Skype, in addition to the usual methods, such as SMS text, email, and Twitter. 2016, M. Milne, The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules, page 70:
   • The site is now highly interactive and features a “fanzone” page with arcade-like games, fan bulletin board and chat rooms, social media links to content on Facebook and Twitter, RSS feeds, video and audio archives, […] 2011, Linda E. Swayne, Mark Dodds, Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, page 976:
   • On the football (soccer) pitch these include: regular viewing angle; bird's-eye view; goal-to-goal; 'player-cam'; highlights reel; and 'fanzone'. 2016, Rob Conkie, Writing Performative Shakespeares, page 69:
2. A venue created for fans of a team, including large screens for watching the game, team-oriented merchandise, and, optionally, other attractions and activities.
   • It also included attending eight World Cup games, including the Japan–US final, and watching most of the rest in large public fanzones. 2018, David Kilpatrick, The State of the Field: Ideologies, Identities and Initiatives:
   • Zenit St Petersburg won the match but the major news story came from Rangers supporters' behaviour in a 'fanzone' erected at Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens. 2009, International Review for the Sociology of Sport - Volume 44, page 381:
   • Some of the fighting even sparked off back in downtown Warsaw in the Plac Defilad, where tournament organizers had constructed a fanzone which saw both Russians and Poles conversing and drinking sideby-side peacefully throughout the day. 2021, Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Face to Face: Enduring Rivalries in World Soccer:
   • Then we resumed watching it on big screens again, even bigger screens, in parks and fanzones, even in our team's home stadium when they were playing somewhere far away. 2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport:
3. (broadly) A similar venue or website for fans of a performer or band.
   • London Palladium in October 2022, I hosted a fanzone in The Dylan Room at the London Troubadour Club with Jackie Lees, my co-author for Bob Dylan in London. 2023, K G Miles, Paul Metsa, Ed Newman, Bob Dylan in Minnesota:
   • […] this rage against the machine comes from bands belonging to the first computer-literate generation, the first generation of bands to develop websites and to benefit from internet marketing and online communities and fanzones. 2008, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's Rage, page 144:
   • The crowds packed into the “fanzones” were taking the full force of the storm. Even the trusty shopping trolley had to be abandoned as we sloshed our way to a gap in the fence where McCartney's chief gatekeeper, Stuart Bell, was fighting a losing battle with gangs of sodden pressmen. 2013, Leslie Woodhead, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, page 204:

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