Snell announced the appointment of Paul Martin as president of Snell North America. Martin is taking on leadership of sales, marketing, and service functions for the North American market.

Danmon Asia Ltd announces its nomination as master distributor for Genelec Oy in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The appointment was confirmed by Genelec Oy's Sales Director, Mikko Tuomi.

The professional line of TriCasters, the complete solution for live broadcast, live streaming and projection of multi-camera productions will be showcased at CabSat on Mediacast Stand D6-10 in Hall 6

Software Generation Ltd (SGL), a leading provider of content archive and storage management software for media and entertainment, has announced a technology partnership with EVS, a leading provider of broadcast and media production systems for sports, news, entertainment and media.

At CABSAT 2013, HARMAN’s Studer will be exhibiting with partner GSL Professional, showing a range of its world-class digital audio consoles for broadcast environments. CABSAT will be held March 12-14 at the Dubai World Trade Center in the United Arab Emirates.

The Vision Mixers Guild (UK & Ireland) announced details of their THIRD Vision Mixers Show on 26th March 2013 at SKY TV West London. The show brings together ALL the main Vision Mixing manufacturers (Sony, Snell, Ross, For-A, Grass Valley) each showing their latest High Definition Broadcast Vision Mixing Desks in the one room.

In September 2011, the RIA Novosti Group, built around Russia’s leading multimedia news agency, was awarded the status of host national agency and photo pool of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2014 by the IOC.

Thomson Broadcast has begun the year strongly, with a major sales success coinciding with the finalization of the company’s new financial and management structure. Now part of the Arelis Group, Thomson Broadcast will benefit from expanded R&D resources that will help the company spread development costs and get innovative technologies to the market more rapidly.

Panasonic Professional Camera Solutions exhibited the December released AK-HC3800 studio EFP camera and exclusive studio system options on the Panasonic stand at BVE 2013  at the ExCeL London.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has made its first ever moving light purchase …investing in Robe ROBIN 300 and 600 LEDWashes plus 300E and 600E Spots – a total of 41 units.

At the 55th Grammys held February 10th, the Chandos recording of Life & Breath – Choral Works by René Clausen won in the Best Engineered Album, Classical and the Best Choral Performance categories. This critically lauded recording by the Kansas City Chorale was recorded by John Newton, Mark Donahue and Tom Caulfield with production credits going to Blanton Alspaugh who also triumphed in the Producer of the Year, Classical category. The other seven recordings listed on his nomination were also captured and mastered on Pyramix.

Ronnie Scott’s, is one of the oldest and most famous jazz clubs in the world having been opened by Ronnie Scott and Pete King in October 1959.  In the 53 years it has been attracting jazz enthusiasts in London it has featured a huge gamut of jazz legends from Ella Fitzgerald to Miles Davis. Since the revamp of the club in 2006 under new owners Sally Greene and Michael Watt, Ronnie Scott’s is more popular than ever, selling out and achieving a full house every time the doors are opened.

For the sixth consecutive year, XL Video supplied full video production for the hugely popular ‘Strictly Come Dancing – The Live Tour’ which yet again, packed out UK arenas following hot on the heels of the latest rating-breaking hit TV series. The star-studded line-up for the 2013 tour included reigning ‘Strictly champion and Olympic gymnast’, Louis Smith, dancing with Ola Jordan.

‘Cost-effective’, ‘High-density’, ‘Forever Compliant’, ‘One-step Loudness Management’ and 'Audio at Its Finest' are keywords that describe the brand new DB6 Audio Broadcast Processors from TC Electronic.

Allen & Heath is pleased to announce the release of GLD Remote, the digital mixing system controller unveiled at NAMM 2013, providing a comprehensive suite of mixing controls for remote wireless applications using the iPad or the iPad Mini.