St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Stadium

Cardinals Stadium Information

Busch Stadium's basic structure isconcrete. The stadium is basically a two-deck facility with about half its seats in each deck. The seats completely surround the field without posts or columns to obstruct fans' views. The nearly circular structure has an outside diameter of more than 800 feet, covers more than 12 acres and is 130-feet tall, measured from the playing field to the top of the stadium.

The playing field at Busch Stadium is 10 to 30 feet lower than street level. Spectators move from the entrance level either up or down to seating areas. There are eight major entrances.

Project Description

When the St. Louis Cardinals began construction on a new Busch Stadium TSI was contracted by SBC to install the Audio, SMATV, Broadcast Cabling, and Voice/Data system infrastructure.

The audio system consisted of installing over 500 speaker enclosures throughout the seating bowl, amplifier racks in two rooms along the first and third base lines, and head-end equipment in the Audio Control Room. All of the interconnection from Control Room to amplifier racks is done using an Ethernet based fiber optic backbone.

The SMATV system is used to distribute the output of over 20 satellite receivers plus local programming throughout the stadium. As with the audio system, this is distributed using a fiber optic backbone to the various closets on each level and then using coax cabling out to the 300+ televisions and plasma screens.

The broadcast cabling system is used to support both standard and high-definition broadcast television signals. A cable backbone is also in place to provide for the radio broadcasters as well. The high-definition video signals are all feed via fiber optic cable.

The voice & data system consisted of the installation of many miles of cable, 35 distribution closets and main MDF, including extension of AT&T circuitry for dmarc locations, as well as building out the AT&T switch room to provide vast connectivity throughout the sports venue. A voice-over-IP system was installed, as well as all voice and data cabling required for the Cardinals’ corporate offices, and all retail point-of-sale locations throughout the facility.

In-Building Cellular System— Consisting of the installation of thousands of feet of fiber optic cable and splicing required to connect 22 remote fiber units throughout the stadium.  Coaxial cable was installed from the remote fiber units to approximately 90 antennas which are strategically placed to enhance cell phone coverage within the confines of the stadium.  Additionally, T-1 circuits were extended to the Head End equipment for a redundant land based feed.