Stadiums, arenas and open air venues across Asia, Europe, North and South America are hosting Madonna’s 2012 MDNA World Tour with all featuring a large Sennheiser microphone and RF system which helps deliver a flawless performance, night after night. Madonna has six Sennheiser SKM 5200 mics for each show, which, as monitor engineer Matt Napier explains, get tested to the limit.

“It's the first time I've used the Auras and they are spectacular!” Thus exclaimed lighting designer Susanne Sasic of Martin Professional’s versatile MAC Aura LED wash light. Using a nearly all Martin rig on the David Byrne & St. Vincent “Love This Giant” North American tour, the LD, who also handles production design and lighting direction on the tour, has teamed the MAC Aura™ with Martin MAC 101™ LED washes and MAC 700™ series fixtures.

Independent station owner Griffin Communications, LLC is putting the finishing touches on a brand new, all HD broadcast facility in Tulsa, Okla.—as the home of News On 6, KOTV, the local CBS affiliate and The Tulsa CW, KQCW, the local CW affiliate—and equipping it with several high-definition (HD) cameras, a new HD video production switcher and several of the latest generation of HD media servers from Grass Valley®. Griffin Communications has been a long-time user of Grass Valley solutions in its existing facility, from which it began broadcasting in 1949.

Panasonic Broadcast announced that LANG AG, one of Europe’s leading providers of visual presentation technology for sale and for hire, has extended its rental catalogue with the addition of Panasonic AK-HC3500 studio cameras. The company’s decision was based on the cameras’ signal transmission technology and their low-noise images.

Red-hot updates from the practice courts. The latest rumour about transfers. Interviews with coaches and players. Around the clock and seven days a week, ‘Sky Sport News HD’ delivers sports news in excellent quality into the homes of the viewers. Germany’s and Austria’s first 24-hours sports news broadcaster trusts in the field-tested Lawo audio quality.

As the Torch Relays made their way around the UK this summer, DPA microphones were at the heart of the festivities, providing loud and clear audio at a total of 70 evening celebrations and the daily lighting of the cauldron ceremonies.

This week SIS LIVE announces the appointment of Simon Bowler as Sales Director of its outside broadcast business, effective as of 1st November.

On its BVE North stand (E49), Axon Digital Design will highlight the increasingly important role that modular core processing technology plays within modern broadcast workflows, which are characterised as multivendor systems where third party interoperability and some form of unified control mechanism is essential. Within this environment the way in which the various third party system components ‘glue’ together and are controlled and monitored is critical to the success of the overall workflow.

Polish systems integration firm 4Vision recently installed a 52-fader HARMAN Studer Vista 9 console as part of a world-class broadcast production system for ATM System’s new HD2 OB truck.

TNDV has enhanced color representation for live shoots on all three of its mobile production trucks, adding Sony PVM-1741 OLED monitors to boost color representation and contrast ratio while setting up cameras.

As it has done for the past 15+ years, veteran mobile production company NEP Broadcasting, based in Pittsburgh, Pa., successfully brought to viewers the live broadcast  of this year’s 64th Primetime Emmy® Awards (Sunday, September 23) on ABC. NEP Broadcasting’s expanding fleet of state-of-the-art trucks feature a variety of Grass Valley® Video Production Center switchers, some of which were onsite and used extensively by ABC and E! Networks to facilitate the pristine HD coverage of the red carpet ceremonies.

With the growth of LCDs in today’s market, precise and accurate color and picture in displays is extremely important. One such company, Penta Studiotech LLC, prides itself in creating and manufacturing high performance broadcast LCD Monitors and Broadcast Electronics. Founded in 1987, Penta is one of the few European companies that have been able to establish a remarkable global reputation.

Goran Hantschel, Commercial Director, Professional and Territory Head Germany at Sony Professional Europe and Head of AV Media Sales, has decided for personal reasons to leave the company at the end of this year.

To reinforce its solutions offerings to broadcasters and content producers, and to support further expansion in the Germany (Deutschland), Austria, and Switzerland (Confederatia Helvetica) (DACH) region, Grass Valley® has appointed Michael Zabolitzki as Managing Director for the company’s DACH operations.

Sports media business is undergoing rapid change, bringing with it some tough challenges for today’s broadcasters. EVS Sports360° helps Production companies to successfully overcome these challenges by combining the best of broadcast and media technologies to shape the future of sports TV.