New Video Board To Spice Up Herd Games

5/14/2001

The new video board is being made possible through the efforts of ISP Sports.

HUNTINGTON, WV -- Marshall University football fans will have another big reason to attend Thundering Herd home football games this fall.

In addition to all the excitement and pagentry that goes along with attending college football games, Herd fans will now not miss a single play with the addition of a new video board at the south end of Marshall University Stadium

The new video board is being made possible through the efforts of ISP Sports. Marshall recently renewed it's contract with ISP. That deal included the addition of the video board for Marshall Stadium.

"As we extend our relationship with Marshall University, we look forward to continuing to expand our programming and enhancing the overall quality of our sales and marketing efforts," Ben Sutton, president of ISP said. "A major step in that direction comes next season with the installation of a state of the art video board in Marshall Stadium, which will be a new and exciting experience for Thundering Herd football fans." The new videoboard will be larger than current message board, and will replace that apparatus as well as some existing signage. The new video board will measure 17-feet by 23-feet.

The new videoboard will be composed of 68,096 pixels, with each pixel including three LEDs (light emitting diodes) - one red, one green and one blue. Total number of LEDs on the screen will therefore be 204,288.

What the new board will mean to Herd fans is live video, instantaneous replay capability and a full animation and graphics package. The technology utilized in the board is state-of-the-art. The exact same board has been installed at the new Cincinnati Bengals stadium as well as numerous other professional and intercollegiate venues across the country.

In addition to the new video board, the existing scoreboard will also be refurbished to include updated technology. The new video board is manufactured by Daktronics, Inc., which is located in Brookings, SD. Long a leader in scoreboard manufacturing, Daktronics is now one of the leading manufacturers of videoboards in America and around the world.

Other schools currently using Daktronics' video installations include stadiums at East Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Wake Forest and Southern Miss.

In addition to the new video board at Marshall Stadium, Daktronics and ISP will also be providing Marshall with a new, state-of-the-art, scoreboard for Thundering Herd baseball. The new scoreboard will be installed at University Heights Field in time for the 2002 season, but Marshall will be able to move the new board to a new campus facility for the Herd as soon as it is ready.

The new video board and baseball scoreboard, costing a total of $750,000, are both being provided to Marshall by ISP.