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Fans from across the globe turned the Polish city of Katowice into the epicenter of esports for the Intel Extreme Masters tournament.
Fans from across the globe turned the Polish city of Katowice into the epicenter of esports for the Intel Extreme Masters tournament.
Tonight the Azerbaijan capital Baku hosted the UEFA Europa League Final between Arsenal London and Chelsea, making it a London derby. BT Sport Channel broadcasted the all-British final with the help of local Broadcast technology provider Baku Media Center together with Sunset + Vine production company.
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In April 2019, Kraftwerk put on four sold-out shows in Tokyo. d&b audiotechnik Japan provided the system solutions used in Orchard Hall, which belongs to the Bunkamura complex. The sound solutions included KSL loudspeakers with D80 amps and d&b Soundscape to reproduce a sound immersion that totally impressed the audiences.
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Universal Pixels provided video packages for Spice Girls in Dublin, Snow Patrol in Bangor, and The Chemical Brothers in London across an action-packed Spring Bank Holiday weekend. The video specialist supplied over 1,450m2 of LED screen, multiple 3G camera packages, disguise GX2 servers, and a total of 26 crew over the three shows.
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The Event and Vantec series convince demanding audiences at three music hotspots in downtown Nashville: FGL House, Jason Aldean´s Kitchen and Luke´s 32 Bridge.
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The Evangeliums Christen Baptist congregation Paderborn is a congregational chapel which maintains its own house of prayer in the German city. For the audio system renewal the congregation, together with audio service provider Musik Aktiv Musikequipment GmbH from Paderborn, decided on a new HDL series line array system from RCF.
Two years ago, Hugo Heathcote, one of three directors of Polygon Live, and his Polygon co-visionaries Archie Keswick and Nico Elliot entered into discussions about a new immersive audio concept to be delivered for a festival environment. Searching for the right technical partners to bring their 360° audio vision to fruition, the Polygon trio discovered that L-ISA had everything they required.
“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.
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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.”
