Oklahoma Memorial Stadium Installing $4.5M HD Video Screen
Construction last week began at the Univ. of Oklahoma's (OU) Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on a new "state-of-the-art" $4.5M HD video screen in the south end zone, scheduled for completion before the '08 college football season, according to Jake Trotter of the DAILY OKLAHOMAN. The board will be 113.5 feet wide and 32.5 feet tall, totaling 3,689 square feet, and is "expected to be among the five largest in the nation." OU also is installing a new sound system, and the athletic department is "in the process of securing HD video cameras for Sooner Vision." The video board is the final piece of a $9.6M project that included a video board for the north end of the stadium, installed before the '07 season, as well as a new "center-hung video scoreboard at the Lloyd Noble Center," which was mounted prior to the '07-08 college basketball season. Daktronics built the two football video boards and the basketball board. The renovations are "part of Phase IV of a Memorial Stadium expansion and improvements project" (DAILY OKLAHOMAN, 5/8).
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