In Tune for Utah Jazz Upgrade

Click Effects & Alpha Video Sports In Tune

SVG News Article by Karen Hogan, Senior Editor

In 2002, the Winter Olympics shined the international spotlight on Salt Lake City. Twelve years later, the venue famous for Sarah Hughes’s improbable figure-skating gold medal is making headlines again. EnergySolutions Arena, known throughout the Games as the Salt Lake Ice Center, recently unveiled drastic changes to its video capabilities as part of a $15 million renovation.

The Utah Jazz’s recent $15 million renovation was a collaborative effort of the team, YESCO, Click Effects, Alpha Video, AJP, and more.

Home to the NBA’s Utah Jazz, EnergySolutions Arena opened in 1991. Prior to the 2013-14 season, Miller Sports Properties (which owns the team and arena) announced plans to install a new center-hung HD LED video display, four auxiliary upper-deck LED displays, two LED fascia boards, vomitory signage, and new courtside kick-plate displays.

Back in June, we announced plans to put in a new video-display system as part of $15 million in renovations for EnergySolutions Arena,” said Frank Zang, VP, communications, Miller Sports Properties. “It debuted here in October, [and] the video screens have been a roaring success.

Previously, EnergySolutions Arena housed a 10- x 10-ft. SD board. The new center-hung display, manufactured and installed by Utah-based YESCO, is seven times larger. Twin 1080p HD screens stretch 42 ft. along the length of the court and measure 24 ft. high, bookended by two 720p HD screens facing each baseline, measuring 26 ft. wide and 17 ft. high. Two additional screens are located within the structure for the benefit of courtside fans.

We believe our fans are number one in the NBA, and their number-one request to us has been to improve our video capabilities,” says Zang. “Our existing system had been in there since 2001. … We basically increased the viewing pleasure of our fans from 400 to 2,900 sq. ft.

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