Together with Novolite screen & Light s.a.c, MA Lighting’s distributor in Peru, MA Lighting Latin America, has just finished its grandMA 3D competition in Lima.  20 young LDs selected from 50 participants had the chance to present their designs in the auditorium of the UNIFEM in Lima during the contest.

Harris Broadcast, a portfolio company of The Gores Group and a global supplier of networking, routing and software solutions that create, manage, transmit, distribute and monetize multimedia content, today announced it has appointed Charlie Vogt as CEO, effective today.

Around 400 Robe fixtures were on site in various areas at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in Pilton, Somerset UK. Glasto is the largest and best known ‘greenfield’ festival in the world with a capacity of 175,000 and a truly eclectic line up of live music and entertainment over three action-packed days.

XL Video continues its long association with singer Robbie Williams, supplying over  46,000 Barco FLX-24 pixels, HD camera system, D3 control, IMAG screens and crew to the phenomenal “Take The Crown” stadium tour, which is already receiving rave reviews and putting Williams right back on his pedestal as one of the best live entertainers of his genre.

Early in July 2013, STAGETEC Entwicklungsgesellschaft (research and development company) from Berlin will celebrate their 20th anniversary. Supported by the Salzbrenner family as a strong partner, 13 graduate engineers founded the business as a form of employee-owned company. All of them are still active partners in the company today, responsible for the continuing innovation and performance of the company.

It seems Sky Deutschland is entering its second phase of life, at least according to analysts at Berenberg Bank. Senior analyst Sarah Simon already had a ‘BUY’ recommendation on Sky Deutschland in place at €5.35. Now she is raising her guidance even higher, to €6.40 a share, and it seems the market is also talking up Sky Deutschland’s prospects.

Vinten Radamec has installed its latest robotic equipment into Sky Italia’s new studio dedicated to providing dynamic coverage of this season’s Formula One Championship.

Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures proved to be country strong when they turned out in force for the 2013 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.  Lighting designer Tom Kenny used a large complement of Clay Paky Sharpys for the gala special, which was hosted by Kristen Bell and Jason Aldean.

International superstar P!NK’s The Truth About Love arena tour is wowing audiences around the world with its incredible mixture of chart-topping tunes, aerial acrobatics, and sheer no-holds-barred entertainment – all powered by audio equipment from Sennheiser. The 140-date 2013 tour sees P!NK perform like never before, flying above the audience, dancing between two stages and diving into water – a demanding high-energy extravaganza that required custom solutions from the audio specialist.

Grass Valley® has announced EDIUS® 7, the latest version of Grass Valley's nonlinear video editing application. EDIUS is a proven, industry-leading solution for editors working on fast turn production in broadcast news, newsmagazine, and studio program content, as well as professional video editors working on organizational, documentary, and 4K theatrical productions. EDIUS 7 is now a native 64-bit application for Windows 7 and Windows 8 64-bit operating systems, taking full advantage of up to 512 GB (dependent upon Windows version) of installed memory for super-intensive media operations, such as multilayer 4K and 3D editing.

The St. Olaf Choir, the premier choral ensemble from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA, has marked its centenary by recording a classical concert at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway. This two-day recording in June 2013 was captured for broadcast and subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release by UK audio for broadcast specialists Red TX in conjunction with Visions/NEP.

Leading European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases launches a revised range of ‘Industrial Rack’ products aimed at professional lighting, sound and video applications, and also to house telemetry and telecoms equipment for installations and mobile use.

SeeSense, UK and European miniature camera solution specialists, announced that Toshiba has launched a 3-CCD miniature camera enhanced for broadcast and industrial use.

Digital communications seems to have been made for marketing/communications … fast, cheap, very targeted – or shotgun, cheap and semi-quasi kinda’ personal. You have got so many social media tools you don’t know which one to use when you get to the office.

Kim Shillinglaw, the BBC’s head of 3D, has admitted that the technology has not taken off with the British public and said that the Corporation will take a three-year break from developing 3D programming at the end of this year.