The elections to the European Parliament in mid-May inevitably attracted a huge amount of news coverage from across the continent. Much of the attention was focused on the European Parliament building in Brussels, where a pair of DiGiCo SD10 consoles kept the world’s media up to date.

As a symbolic gesture ahead of the FIFA World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Blatter came together to take part in a 2014/2018 FIFA World Cup hand-over ceremony.

Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that the European Parliament employed a large-scale MediorNet real-time media network and Artist digital matrix intercom system to meet the signal transport requirements of the 2014 European Parliament elections in Brussels. During the weeks surrounding the May 25 elections, the fiber-based Riedel installation provided a flexible and redundant network for HD video, audio, and broadcast-quality intercom signal management, routing, and processing.

Getting the public engaged in politics is a major challenge in any country, however, Denmark takes a simple, yet effective approach to encouraging political discourse. Each year, The People’s Meeting (Folkemødet), a four day political festival takes place on the island of Bornholm. High ranking members of each political party, mayors, councillors and government ministers give speeches and take part in live, open air discussions on public policies with more than 11,000 members of the public. The events are not only screened to the meeting’s audience on the island, but are also broadcast live in HD on TV2, one of Denmark’s public service television channels.

Adlib was again right at the core of the action for four days of amazing public theatre that saw the return of the Royal De Luxe giant marionettes to the city for a weekend of fun, history, poignancy and superlative entertainment.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sworn in as Turkey’s 12th President on Aug. 28, after 12 years of prime ministry, further strengthening his position as the most powerful leader of the country. Erdoğan read the presidential oath before the Turkish Parliament before taking his seat from Abdullah Gül, in a splendid handover ceremony with the participation of leaders from more than 90 countries.

This new event for IBC 2014, sponsored by Ross Video, brings together the industry's women and associations to create a lively and thought-provoking panel discussion and networking lunch.

An estimated crowd of 800,000 people gathered in the South Korean city of Daejeon to attend the Mass by Pope Francis during Asian Youth Day. The massive crowd of young adults gathered to witness the head of the Catholic Church beatify 124 Korean martyrs during the two-hour ceremony conducted in August. Inter-M, a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products headquartered in Korea, was chosen as the official supplier of the PA system.

Two TV rental specialists — one operating in London and one in Glasgow — pooled their respective SGM inventories to great effect recently during the recent Scottish Independence Referendum.

Two days after the close of IBC 2014, eligible residents of Scotland went to local polling stations to answer one question, “Should Scotland be an independent country?"

Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that East Shore Sound used Riedel equipment to provide multiple layers of communications for "A Capitol Fourth — America's National Independence Day Celebration."

Ahead of the 2014 US midterm elections, Reality Check Systems (RCS) collaborated with the government and elections team (@gov) at Twitter to customize one of RCS' Twitter Bullet mobile graphics workstations for use in the broadcast of Chicago Tonight's 2014 U.S. Senate Candidate Forum by local Chicago Affiliate WTTW11 (@wttw). Together on October 29, 2014 at 7:00pm CDT, Twitter and WTTW11 deployed the system to curate and air Tweets throughout the hour-long debate as dynamic graphics, bringing audience hashtags and conversations to life on-screen as they unfolded in real-time.

Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that BBC Scotland used a Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom system along with the broadcaster's most extensive IP deployment to date to support communications for its Scottish Referendum broadcast. By augmenting and expanding the building-wide Riedel system used for day-to-day business at its Pacific Quay facilities in Glasgow, the broadcaster was able to establish effective VOIP communications among outside broadcast venues across the United Kingdom.

Belgian based WIcreations applied their unique mix of engineering wizardry and ingenuity to design a custom tracking system that moved six giant columns of LED screen over 70 metres for the massive event in front of Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate to celebrate 25 Years since the ‘Fall of the Wall’.

Viewers are being asked to share their favourite TV moments in celebration of World Television Day – the United Nations led initiative backed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) and egta, the Brussels based association of television and radio sales houses.