# Which sports bar has the most TVs?

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**Created:** [July 2, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sports-bar-has-the-most-tvs/790328 "2017-07-02T03:07:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sports-bar-has-the-most-tvs/790328/1 "2017-07-02T03:07:45Z")

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The Buffalo Wild Wings near me has 50 large screen TVs. They completely line all the walls, and there is a divider in the middle of the room and there are 5 more on each side of it. It’s not the biggest B Dubs in the area, I’ll have to count the screens at the one I think is the largest.

Dennis

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sports-bar-has-the-most-tvs/790328/2 "2017-07-02T04:49:55Z")

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Joe’s on Weed Street in Chicago claims to have 120.

See: [http://joesbar.com/](http://joesbar.com/)

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My local sports bar claims to have 42, and I’d say that’s about right. Maybe not as many as mentioned above, but it does have 8 satellite feeds, so if your game is on somewhere, the sports bar can usually get it.

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sports-bar-has-the-most-tvs/790328/4 "2017-07-02T05:36:52Z")

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One I do tech for in Kansas City doesn’t have the most - 24 50" displays and 4 10 foot HD projectors - but the projectors are equal in brightness to the LCD screens. I’m very proud of that, most sports bars value size over brightness.

And nobody can touch them on variety of sources - DirecTV and cable like anyone else, but also C band, Ku, HD DVB receivers for those as well.

But even more important, a gigabit internet connection, subscriptions to a huge number of webcast sports packages and four PC sources going to [a QAM modulator](https://www.zeevee.com/zeevee-hdb2800-hdbridge-2000-series-encoder-modulator-hdmi-1080p.html)to distribute streamed games to every TV. 120 TVs don’t matter if they are all showing ESPN, what matters is being able to get a different game on every single TV.

We placed the TVs so everyone at every bar stool and table had a really excellent view of at least one TV. We didn’t bother putting any where you wouldn’t really want them, or where they would prove a distraction.