Sports and Exhibition Authority approves surchage for Pirates tickets

PNC Park adding dollar surcharge

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - This fall, fans will be paying a dollar more per ticket to go to Pirates games.

That money will go toward funding upgrades to the scoreboard at PNC Park.

On Thursday, the Sports and Exhibition Authority approved the surcharge.

The scoreboard will be expanded from 82 to 142 feet wide.

Even after the scoreboard is upgraded, the dollar surcharge will remain through the length of the Pirates least at PNC Park which runs through 2030.

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Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.