Billboards Broadcast Dodger Blue
Friday, Oct 16, 2009 | Updated 8:45 AM PST
Digital electronic billboards have become a flashpoint for discontent in many parts of Los Angeles
Can’t be near a TV? Not within earshot of a radio? Battery low on your iPhone? Internet down?
For the technology-challenged-and/or-stuck-in-traffic, electronic billboards around L.A. will keep you up to date on what the Dodgers are doing during the home games.
For the first time in the club’s history, the Dodgers will keep fans up to date on the game’s score via digital billboards. The same updates on the scoreboard at Dodger Stadium, offering an inning-by-inning breakdown, will be displayed digitally on five billboards for all the NLCS home games. The billboards are located at:
- Olympic Blvd at Granville
- Cahuenga at Franklin
- Westwood at Santa Monica Blvd
- Third at La Cienega
- Santa Monica and Federal
The Dodgers say portable scoreboards are a time-honored baseball tradition for fans. They explain in a press release: "Dodger Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully recalls a childhood memory in New York of walking down the street in October and noticing a lopsided in-progress World Series score between the New York Giants and New York Yankees. The line score was crafted on an oversized piece of butcher paper and displayed in the window.”
Hopefully the billboards will broadcast better news going forward. The Phillies won the first round, 8-6, to take the opener of the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.
