Broadcast Microwave Services, a pioneer in microwave transmission solutions for over 30 years was demonstrating the wireless adapter integrated in the Sony HDC-2500 camera at IBC 2012

Providing cutting-edge post-production audio services for the thriving independent film industry in Austin, Texas, Korey Pereira, Owner and Lead Engineer of Soularity Sound, recently upgraded to 5.1 surround sound production capability with HARMAN’s JBL LSR4300 Series studio monitors.

A new addition to the Leader Instruments range of test equipment, the LV5307 is an SDI and HDMI video monitor with a wide range of features for professional video content-creation and post-production. Available now, the monitor incorporates a bright 7 inch widescreen colour display screen, signal analysis, SDI to HDMI cross-conversion and audio de-embedding in a compact unit priced at under US$2,000.

Celebrating his fifth year of lighting the MTV Video Music Awards, experienced LD Tom Kenny kept up his pledge of always trying to use new lighting technology in order to animate Florian Wieder’s other-worldly landscape set.

The first broadcast installation of Yamaha’s new CL series consoles has taken place in Spain, at the heart of one of the country’s most popular television programmes. Attracting a primetime audience of millions, El Hormiguero (The Anthill) is a chat show that features celebrity guests in a mix of entertainment, science, politics, comedy and sport. Two CL5s and an M7CL-48 have delivered a highly flexible solution to its complex audio requirements.

To mark her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, the English National Ballet recently completed a series of 14 sell-out performances at the new 500-seat Theatre at The Concourse Performing Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia.

Iconic rock bands Mötley Crüe and KISS teamed for a North American tour and took a grandMA2 full-size along for the ride that is being used to program and control lighting and video on 44 shows, which are drawing huge crowds coast to coast. Sooner Routhier, Robert Long (SRae Productions) and Patrick Whitley are the lighting and production designers for the tour.

After a long hiatus, several side projects and a solo album, the four members of British indie rock band Bloc Party regrouped in NYC last year with producer Alex Newport (Death Cab For Cutie, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) to record their first album since 2008’s ‘Intimacy’. Following this summer’s release of their latest album ‘Four’, the band finds themselves back in the charts and on a world tour with Mogami ‘Cable for Life’ packaged cables.

At this year’s International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, MotoGP™ rights holder Dorna Sports and Fujifilm have proudly exhibited its first joint-collaboration miniature lens, which has been implemented in the High Definition OnBoard footage seen since the start of the 2012 season.

HARMAN’s Soundcraft has launched an audio calculation toolkit app for the Apple iPhone®. The app is an invaluable tool for audio engineers, offering converters for Volts-dBu-dBV and delay times in metres-seconds-milliseconds-feet-samples, as well as a timecode offset calculator. Future versions will expand the suite of useful tools with other utilities.

Continuing over five decades of worldwide success, selling more than 115 million records globally, American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond recently completed a successful tour with HARMAN’s JBL VTX Series line arrays, providing unprecedented clarity and power. The 3-month tour included five performances at Los Angeles’ renowned Greek Theatre where, 40 years ago, Neil Diamond recorded his hit live double album, Hot August Night.

Martin Professional’s M1 lighting controller was used to control a large moving head rig on the main stage at the 2012 Global Gathering festival at England’s Long Marston Airfield in late July.

Award winning lighting designer Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier designed lighting and video for the current series of Idols SA, with Robe moving lights featuring prominently in the rig, helping to create all the drama and excitement associated with the popular TV series.

W-DMX™ recently took control at the 5th TAFISA World Sport for All Games held in Siauliai, Lithuania. Some 1,200 athletes from over 60 countries and regions participated in traditional games and sports (TSG) from all over the globe.

Sports Video Group Europe will produce two in-depth conference panels at SPORTELMonaco, the premier sport media industry fair, on 16 October, at the Grimaldi Forum of Monaco.