Busch Stadium Hits a Home Run with World-Class Belden® Brilliance® Audio and Broadcast Systems When the owners of the St. Louis Cardinals began their plans for a new major league baseball stadium, they wanted to ensure that the broadcasting, audio and control systems would meet the same high quality and design standards as the architecturally impressive stadium.

Here is a "snapshot" of the installation:

Audio Systems
The audio control roomhouses the mixing panel, along with program sources and patch panels. In addition, the digital signal processing system and amplifier control systems are controlled from this room. Tie lines from the field, video replay, main broadcast connection, and other areas terminate in the control room. Field box input panels at the field provide for direct connection to the system through multiple input receptacles and tie lines. These field panels also provide for intercom connection as well as output receptacles for foldback monitor speakers.

Additional audio systems are being installed in the following areas:

• Stadium's Seating Bowl reinforcement system is a distributed speaker style with speakers located around the fan’s seating area. Power amplifiers are connected to a centralized monitoring system in the audio control room.
• Interview/Press Dining Roomwith broadcast plug-insfor interviews with the coaches and players.
• Field Club Areahas local equipment rack controlled by from a dedicated touch control panel for local and remote program sources, DVD changer, VCR and AM/FM tuner.
• Club Lounge Areas:  Each of the threelounge areas, on different levels, has a local equipment rack and system similar to that in the Field Club Area.
• Restrooms on each level have speakers with programming selected in the audio control room.
• Ticket Offices have a paging system with exterior speakers over ticket windows to provide informational announcements and messages to patrons waiting in line.
• Intercom Receptaclesare provided at multiple locations throughout and around the building.

Broadcast Cabling Systems
Busch Stadium's broadcast cabling system consists of cabling to support television broadcast systems, in-house and coaching videos. Each system has cables that run to its designated location, as well as cross-connect cables.

• JBTs are used by network broadcasters. All cables terminate at the Service Level broadcast truck parking area in a special cabling and equipment rack. 
• JBEs are used by local broadcasters. All cables terminate at the Service Level broadcast termination room in a special cabling and equipment rack.
• Video Replay (Stadium) cables terminate in the Scoreboard/Organ/PA Booth.
• Broadcast radio cabling is run from the relevant JBE or JBT to the associated radio booth cross-connect located at the Press Level.

Audio/Video Control Systems
Control systems provide control of televisions and other A/V equipment and systems.  Typically, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) control panel facilitates control of various systems with simple push-button activation, through software that coordinates the GUI and audio/video system controls.

Belden Brilliance® A/V Cables
Hundreds of thousands of feet of Brilliance cabling are required to fulfill all of the new Busch Stadium's broadcasting, and far-flung audio/video and control functions.  The approximate quantity and types of Brilliance products being deployed include:

• 1694A - Precision Video Coaxial cable (RG-6/U Type) - 300,000 feet - For TV broadcasting and video applications
• 8477 - Paired High-Conductivity Copper Speaker cable/Control & Instrumentation cable - 80,000 feet - Speakers
• 1816R - Paired Analog Multi-Pair Snake cable - 100,000 feet - Audio and Speakers
• 9451 - Line Level Analog Audio cables - 100,000 feet - Audio
• YR46889 - 8-9 AWG Speaker cables - Big Speakers, Public Address system