Work began this week on the new north end zone videoboard at Jones AT&T Stadium, another piece in the $242 million Texas Tech football facilities project.

"They've started taking some of the front panels off of the scoreboard, so dismantling that," Texas Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt said Wednesday. "The new board's not going to go in immediately, but they're going to go ahead and get that (current) one out of there."

The Daktronics videoboard will be nearly 136 feet wide by 37 feet tall. Also planned are three new ribbon boards, each a little more than 158 feet wide by nearly 5 feet tall. The project cost is $4.9 million, Tech deputy athletics director Jonathan Botros said.

"The height of the new videoboard will be the same as the current one," Botros said. "The width will be significantly wider, as it will take the place of the current videoboard plus those black speaker panels that are to the left and right of the current board. So the new board will be significantly wider than the current one (and) obviously have a much higher resolution.

"And then rather than the speakers being embedded in that current structure, we will have the speaker banks on the outside of the current structure to the left and right."

Also being installed is a sound system at a project cost of $3.7 million.

"Hopefully we'll wrap it up by the end of July, that north end zone video board and speaker system project," Botros said.

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The first visible signs of all the stadium changes to come took place in early December 2022 when heavy equipment operators removed the original Double T scoreboard from its spot overlooking the south end zone since 1978. A new Double T scoreboard will be put up in its place atop the south end zone building currently under construction.

Hocutt said signs of the new scoreboard will be evident "in some form or fashion" soon.

"I don't know if the steel will be up. Will the face of it be up?," he said. "I'm not sure, but you will start to see some semblance of that Double T scoreboard by — the plan is — the end of February. I say the plan, because originally it was going to be before the end of December.

"But by the end of February, hopefully you start to see the build-out of the structure of the Double T scoreboard."

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Videoboard work under way at Texas Tech football's Jones AT&T Stadium