Barco Provides Baseball’s AA Montgomery Biscuits with Big League Atmosphere
Logan, UT - Barco, a world leader in large-scale visual imaging solutions, announced it has completed its installation of LED video display and scoreboard solutions at the new Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium located in downtown Montgomery, AL. The new stadium, which holds more than 7,000 fans, is home to the new Class-AA Affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Montgomery Biscuits. The team played its inaugural season home opener on April 16, 2004 when they host the Huntsville Stars.
Built into a historical train station, the $26 million ballpark is equipped with a Barco 10’ x 36’ scoreboard system and a 12’ x 21’ RGB LED video display, which is used for live video footage and instant replays. In addition, Barco provided matrix message centers to accentuate the new scoreboard system. The displays, which offer bright, high-resolution images, offer Biscuit fans an enhanced ballpark experience.“The Barco displays offer the quality, resolution, and engineering expertise we wanted to give our fans,” stated Tom Dickson, owner of the Montgomery Biscuits. “The new scoreboard and video display allows our fans the opportunity to enjoy a historic pastime with the latest in video display technology and in a state-of-the-art facility.”
“Video displays offer fans to the ballpark a compelling and interactive form of entertainment,” stated Dave Janke, General Manager of Barco Media, “The new Riverwalk Stadium has the ambiance of a historic ballpark, but is truly a high-tech facility. The innovative Barco displays will captivate fans and bring a new level of excitement to the game.”
About Barco Media
Barco Media, LLC, headquartered in Logan, UT, offers turnkey imaging solutions to its markets. Barco’s LED display and projection solutions can be seen at the world’s leading motor shows, on stage with some of the world’s biggest stars and on buildings and in lobbies of some of the world’s foremost companies. The division has provided LED visual solutions to many high-profile clients, such as Clear Channel International, Merrill Lynch, Dresdner Bank, BMW, Toyota, Porsche, Daimler Chrysler, U2, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Bon Jovi and many others. The company’s LED display solutions have also been chosen to grace Reliant Park Stadium (USA), host to the 2004 Super Bowl, as well as the stadiums of FC Porto (Portugal) and FC Geneve (Switzerland), which will host the 2004 and 2008 European Soccer Championships respectively.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, is active in three key areas of imaging technology. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Brussels/Euronext and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company.
