Las Vegas' Light America Awarded Contract for Olympic Games

		LIGHT AMERICA TO LIGHT UP THE NIGHT AT OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES Let there be light. Light America of Las Vegas was chosen to light up the night at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The Gold Medal winners will be surrounded by the 24 Iris Pros "Starlight Towers" of 7,000 watts each while "The Extreme Beam" will be the center attraction during the festivities. "The Extreme Beam" is the largest moveable light-force in the world and is often compared to the Luxor Hotel's beam of light. (PRNewsFoto)[TK] LAS VEGAS, NV USA

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Light America based in Las Vegas is in Salt Lake City with their state-of-the-art lighting systems and extravagant visual displays to highlight the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics so that the eyes of the world may focus on the beauty of the night. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020206/LAW066 ) Light America is an 18-month-old Las Vegas-based company. For a company only in its toddler stages it has accomplished more and grown to a world-class entity. The lighting will begin on Feb. 8 for the opening ceremony and run thru Feb. 24. The Winter Olympics start Friday. The Olympics will be covered by TV only. The "Anheuser-Busch's World Party" will take place nightly at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City. The Gold Medal winners will be introduced. Intelligent lighting of this magnitude in the form of moveable colored beams didn't exist during the last Millennium. The Gold Medal winners will be introduced by 24 Ireo Pros "Starlight Towers" with 7,000 watts of power each, which will form a moving vortex, creating spectacular lighting effects. The Extreme Beam with 50,000 watts of full color and moving lights will backlight the stage. In all you are looking at 218,000 watts of power. Two 50-watt Yag Lasers will light up the Gallivan Center Ice Skating Rink. The newest innovation in lighting includes the ability to project full color logos with 10 Mac 2000 fixtures. The fully programmable Starlight Towers will show off the Olympic Medals Plaza at the Olympic Square. The lighting and special effects will be accomplished with 15 25-foot towers of light, one 7,000-watt Space Cannon and another 100-foot tower. The fully moveable space technology will be able to be viewed up to five miles away. For the first time in history the Rose Bowl played a night championship game and Light America was called upon to light the entire stadium. Light America was also contracted to light The Palms, Station Casinos, New York-New York ESPN Zone and Mandalay Bay. The World Games in Edmonton, Canada last summer was also lit by Light America. The technology used is the same as the Luxor's famous light beam. There won't be any online coverage of the events. The official sites for information are olympics.com and nbcolympics.com that are jointly produced by Microsoft and NBC. The U.S. Olympic Committee launched its first web site aimed at kids, usolympic.com/kids. Usolympicteam.com will let you e-mail U.S. Olympic athletes. To contact Light America, call Toni Rose at (702) 696-0473 or Wayne Bernath at (702) 435-7636.