The grass is being bulldozed out at AT&T Park to make room for new sod. The new field needs to be in place by March 17th as AT&T Park will be hosting a soccer double header. First up will be the San Jose Earthquakes vs Houston Dynamo, shortly after, Mexico vs Senegal will play an international friendly.
There are several projects happening at AT&T Park and one in particular that involves MediaOne. The Giants are considering expanding the broadcast infrastructure out to Willie Mays Plaza (WMP). This area is often used by broadcasters for pre & post game shows. The project asks for two 3 inch conduits to be buried under the plaza so broadcast cable can be installed into a new tie box @ WMP. The cable includes 12 single mode fiber, 6 video and 16 audio all of which are 1300 feet in length. This cable will be pulled all the way back to the truck dock and engineered into our existing infrastructure. This project will make broadcasting from WMP more efficient.
At the same time, I am in the planning phases of upgrading our transmission facility at AT&T Park. The installation will include a new Utah 400 HD-SDI/3G router along with Bright Eye DA’s, Evertz and Aja components.
The home opener is on April 13th vs the Pittsburg Pirates.
