“There’s No Such Thing as Too Much TV” proclaimed Belgium TV channel SBS at the launch party for their upcoming season’s programming, an event attended by sponsors together with a host of TV celebrities and glitterati, staged at the architecturally hyperreal Docks Arena event space in Brussels.
The MILOS Corner Brace HD is a new, advanced roof corner reinforcement concept that eliminates the need for guy wires in small to medium-sized roof structures. Compared to guy wires, installation is greatly simplified, the total time for roof construction is noticeably decreased, and ballast requirements are reduced.
Established in 1968 and sponsored by the Olympic Committee, the longstanding International Children’s Games branched out in 1994 with the launch of the Children’s Winter Games. This year the competition was held in Lake Placid, New York, giving young athletes from across the globe the chance to compete at the highest level in a wide range of winter sports.
Three performances, 10 minutes, 62,000 fans, and a TV audience of millions required expert audio delivery for the Opening Ceremony of Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium.
Stagetec Asia, the Malaysian subsidiary of the Berlin-based manufacturer Stage Tec, has completed its first project in Indonesia. A 32-fader AURUS and a NEXUS network with router and two Base Devices were installed in the Christian community Ark of Christ Church.
Telco provider Telia started a new esports league in Finland at the end of April. “Telia Esports Series” uses studios and virtual reality solutions provided by Broadcast Solutions. The Telia Esports Series is not only designed for the players but for the viewers also as the weekly league is broadcasted on the Finnish national television and internationally through the Twitch channel.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) is the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world, drawing more than two million people each year. An especially large draw is the 20 consecutive evenings of rodeo and concerts held at Houston’s NRG Stadium.
As part of ongoing upgrades and developments to its studio facilities, Verizon Media – the Verizon digital-media division combining AOL and Yahoo! – has taken delivery of three state-of-the-art mc²36 audio production consoles and a Nova37 Hybrid IP/MADI Plug&Play Audio Router for its studio facilities from German IP broadcast technology pioneer, Lawo.
Spanish indie rock band Vetusta Morla has been touring its fourth studio album, Mismo Sitio, Distinto Lugar, throughout Europe including a sell -out performance at the Caja Mágica Esplanade (The Magic Box) stadium in their home city of Madrid. For this tour, Front of House Engineer Alberto Ruiz chose to use two DiGiCo SD5 consoles supplied by Spanish Tuá Pro.
For the US leg of Ben Howard’s transatlantic tour, L-Acoustics was the number one choice for the Only Lovestar, with Sound on Stage providing a left-right K2 system on all dates. Howard’s audio consultant and front of house engineer, Andy Magee notes that the K2 system was chosen for its “rock solid predictability.”
The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT at Ilmenau, Germany, set up a new reference listening room for their SpatialSound Wave technology. This impressive installation was outfitted with thirty Neumann
KH 310 A studio monitors, supported by KH 805 subwoofers.
The Flyer - San Francisco at Fisherman’s Wharf’s Pier 39 in San Francisco, a new flyover theater attraction, gives both tourists and locals alike a bird’s eye view of the city using cinematic artistry and state-of-the-art HD film footage captured with the help of drones and helicopters, and blended with computer-generated imagery.
MEPTIK, an Atlanta-based experience design agency specializing in dynamic live environments, leveraged the commercial AV industryʼs most powerful media playback technologies to deliver a dynamic audio-visual experience to attendees of the recent Beloved Benefit in Atlanta.
The Shed’s executive team joined elected officials and artists to celebrate the opening of New York’s new arts center during a dedication ceremony just days before the space opened to the public on April 5. The Shed is commissioning and presenting new work from artists working in all genres, including Steve McQueen, Steve Reich, Trisha Donnelly, Anne Carson, Renée Fleming or Björk.
Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH) EartH and Community Music announce crowdfunding initiative to raise funds to build onsite Community Music Studios - a new education hub for young people. EartH announces first European live music venue installation of revolutionary L-ISA Hyperreal Sound technology from L-Acoustics.
The buzzzz started in 2016 when childhood friend singer / guitarist Ryan Hennessey and drummer Jimmy Rainsford from Athy, County Kildare, recorded their first song “Take My Hand” and made an accompanying iPhone video which they posted on YouTube and Facebook, where it went viral and received millions of views.
Decades of intelligibility woes fade into memory for a passionate church with a musical message. Worshipers at Crossline Church in El Cajon, California are enjoying a new state-of-the-art VUE sound system thanks to a major upgrade from Pine Valley-based Essex Sound.
