{"id":9844,"date":"2013-10-07T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/high-def-video-board-for-twin-spires\/"},"modified":"2013-10-07T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:10:00","slug":"high-def-video-board-for-twin-spires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/high-def-video-board-for-twin-spires\/","title":{"rendered":"High def video board for Twin Spires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Historic Churchill Downs has agreed to install a massive high definition video board along the backstretch.<\/p>\n<p>The $12 million, 15,224-square-foot Panasonic board will be installed in time for the 140th Kentucky Derby on May 3 and Kentucky Oaks the day prior. It will be placed about midway along the backstretch and outside the main dirt course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 2005 we have invested over $160 million in improving our fans&#8217; experience,&#8221; said Kevin Flanery, president of Churchill Downs Racetrack. &#8220;Along with our current $15 million Grandstand Terrace project we are investing over $27 million this year to make Churchill Downs not only the best venue for Thoroughbred racing&#8217;s biggest events, the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby, but one of the premier sports and entertainment venues anywhere in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The board will be 171 feet wide by 170 feet high and will be 80 feet above the ground &#8220;making it the largest high definition video board currently constructed anywhere in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video board is expected to be debuted at &#8220;Opening Night&#8221; of Derby Week on Saturday, April 26, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, KY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Historic Churchill Downs has agreed to install a massive high definition video board along the backstretch. The $12 million, 15,224-square-foot Panasonic board will be installed in time for the 140th Kentucky Derby on May 3 and Kentucky Oaks the day prior. It will be placed about midway along the backstretch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}