Hamilton County, OH, commissioners approved two new
Daktronics scoreboards for Paul Brown Stadium, which will
"be made up of nearly 2 million individual lights each,
which blend to make a television-quality picture," according
to Dan Klepal of the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. The screens,
measuring 27 feet high by 90 feet wide, will be in each end
zone. There will be "another 27 feet on the side of each
for rotating advertising panels." There will also be two
"long, thin scoreboards attached to the upper deck along the
sidelines." Those boards will be four feet tall and 200
feet long and display real-time information about other NFL
games in progress. The cost of "all four scoreboards" is
$7.8M, which is "more than" 50% above the original estimate.
The Bengals "will scale back some of their expense with the
stadium to make up the cost" (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 11/18).
THE VISION THING: In Detroit, Chris McCosky reported
that The Palace unveiled the new $1.7M Mitsubishi Diamond
Vision. Palace Senior VP/Broadcasting & Multimedia Pete
Skorich: "Next summer, we will be putting in an entirely new
scoreboard, matrix box and video board." McCosky wrote that
the system, called the Palace Chandelier, "will be one of
the most advanced scoreboards in the NBA" (D. NEWS, 11/16).
