{"id":12293,"date":"2014-03-20T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:16:11","slug":"texas-motor-speedway-unveils-big-hoss-tv-at-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/20\/texas-motor-speedway-unveils-big-hoss-tv-at-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Motor Speedway unveils largest video board, Big Hoss TV at track"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12294\" style=\"width: 814px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12294\" alt=\"Image via Twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/bghoss.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/bghoss.jpg 814w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/bghoss-594x333.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/bghoss-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Texas Motor Speedway unveiled the world&#8217;s largest high-definition video board Wednesday night called Big Hoss TV.<\/p>\n<p>The track flipped a switch on a huge remote control that in turn set off fireworks, before the screen began playing highlights from past races at the track.<\/p>\n<p>Via TexasMotorSpeedway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The state-of-the-art video board is the largest ever built by Panasonic and will surpass fellow Speedway Motorsports, Inc. facility Charlotte Motor Speedway (16,000 square feet) as Guinness World Record holder for the world\u2019s largest HD LED video board.<\/p>\n<p>The size of \u201cBig Hoss TV\u201d is staggering as it is 79 percent larger than the video board at AT&amp;T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, which stands at 11,520 square feet.The screen is 218 feet wide and about 95 feet high. It is about 125 feet above ground level in the middle of the backstretch at the 1 1\/2-mile track. The screen measures 20,633 square feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official unveiling was part of a star-studded evening that included appearances by Duck Commander CEO and star of \u201cDuck Dynasty\u201d Willie Robertson and wife, Korie, along with the dynamic racing duo of NASCAR\u2019s Kyle Busch and INDYCAR\u2019s Helio Castroneves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always love coming to Texas,\u201d Busch said. \u201cThis is the biggest crowd think I\u2019ve ever seen for a TV debut. It\u2019s pretty awesome. That\u2019s why they say \u2018everything is bigger in Texas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Duck Commander 500 Sprint Cup series race is on April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Motor Speedway unveiled the world&#8217;s largest high-definition video board Wednesday night called Big Hoss TV. The track flipped a switch on a huge remote control that in turn set off fireworks, before the screen began playing highlights from past races at the track. Via TexasMotorSpeedway: The state-of-the-art video board is the largest ever built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[872,871,617],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-12293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-big-hoss-tv","10":"tag-duck-commander-500","11":"tag-texas-motor-speedway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}