West Virginia University Site: Challenge: Solution

West Virginia University
Site:
Milan Puskar Stadium is the home of the West Virginia University (WVU) Mountaineers football team.
Since 1891, the Mountaineers have been uniting WVU fans at NCAA Division 1A athletic events and on
game days the stadium sees crowds of over 60,000, making it the largest population center in West
Virginia. For indoor sports, the 14,000-seat WVU Coliseum is home to the Mountaineers basketball
teams in addition to a variety of other sports, plus concerts and events.
Challenge:
Universities rely on the excitement generated by their sports programs to draw interest to their academic
programs and help maintain high application rates. In addition, a fully realized athletics program should
bring additional revenue to the school through concessions, souvenirs and advertising. WVU needed a
complete sports entertainment solution that would help to support all of these objectives while generating
excitement and inspiring fans and players at athletic events.
Solution:
The new digital signage solution at Puskar Stadium includes an LED screen which is three times
wider than the system it replaced in the south end zone, with higher resolution LED quality. Two new
full-color LED fascia boards running down each sideline display game and scoring information. Two
additional LED auxiliary matrix boards in the south end zone replace older discrete digit scoring
systems, now allowing a wide variety of in-game statistics. All screens also display messaging,
game statistics and sponsor advertising.
In the Coliseum, the dynamic video solution includes a center-hung, four-sided LED video replay system.
Halo boards above and below the LED show live event coverage and real-time statistics as well as
replays, messaging, sponsor advertising, and graphics. Two additional new LED auxiliary matrix boards
in each backcourt zone and a completely new LED scorer's table at courtside display in-game statistics.
The new video systems are capable of displaying both standard definition and HD content in bright,
vivid colors. On par with professional sports arenas, these LEDs deliver quality, performance and
incremental revenue-generation potential – along with fan and team excitement – many times
greater than the static panels and display systems they replaced.
Project:
Coliseum and Milan Puskar Stadium at
West Virginia University
Indoor/Outdoor LED Signage for Sports Arenas
Milan Puskar Stadium
• Main Video Replay Screen
• East Fascia Display
• West Fascia Display
• South Left Auxiliary
• South Right Auxiliary
85.0' x 23.6'
306.1' x 3.8'
306.1' x 3.8'
20.9' x 4.5'
4.5' x 22'
22.5mm Full-Color LED
24mm Full-Color LED
24mm Full-Color LED
25mm Amber LED
25mm Amber LED
Coliseum
• New Center-hung structure, hoist and rigging system
• Main Video Replay Screens (4) 16' x 15'
12mm Full-Color SMD-LED
• Upper LED Halo Ring
28’ x 2.5’
12mm Full-Color SMD-LED
• Lower LED Halo Ring
22’ x 2.5’
12mm Full-Color SMD-LED
• Scorer’s Tables (4)
8’ x 2’
12mm Full-Color SMD-LED
• LED Fascia Scoring Displays
80’ x 2’
20mm Full-Color LED
Panasonic LED Large Screen Systems
are built with flexibility, functionality
and performance in mind, featuring:
• Impressive image quality even in direct sunlight,
with brightness of 5,000 cd/m²
• Wide angle of viewing
• Dust and waterproof performance - meet IP66 standard
• Subpixel processing - every dot of an image is processed in
consideration of the layout of LED lamps to reproduce more
precise images and sharper, smoother diagonal lines
• Modular format - if a single panel needs to be replaced,
the LED modular format allows the system to keep running
• Eco-friendly - Panasonic does not use environmentally
hazardous substances in our Astrovision products and our
factories worldwide are ISO14001 certified
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