SIZE MATTERS

By Helene Elliott

Oct. 10, 1999 12 AM PT

Sides to the scoreboard: 8.

* Square feet of electronic message boards: 874.

* Square feet of high-resolution video boards: 1,542.

* Feet of broadcast production cable: 3,800,000.

* Height of roof at center ice: 146 feet.

* Height of exit signs: 6 feet, 7 inches.

* Height of Shaquille O’Neal: 7 feet, 1 inch.

* Span of arena’s main truss: 502 feet.

* Weight of center-hanging scoreboard: 47,000 pounds.

* Feet of telephone/data cable: 750,000, or more than 140 miles.

* Telephone/computer jacks: 5,000.

* Feet of fiber-optic cable: 148,000.

* Light fixtures: 14,650.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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