Soundcraft helped The London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) into the Guinness Book of Records last weekend when experienced sound engineers Raphael Williams and monitor engineer Nikoma Bell specified 96- and 64-channel Soundcraft Vi6 consoles respectively to mix the largest gospel choir ever assembled on a stage.

A Skqattro tracking pedestal from The Camera Store followed the action during a National Theatre Live broadcast of Alan Bennett's new play, People, for cinema audiences around the world which took place on 21 March. Frances de la Tour plays Dorothy, joined by Selina Cadell and Linda Bassett.

Haivision’s Mako and KulaByte Encoders Selected by Ryerson University to Deliver High Quality Video for Live Streaming of Simultaneous Choreography Between Dancers in Amsterdam and Toronto

At a ceremony held on the evening of 28 April, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented the esteemed BAFTA award for Digital Creativity to C4’s coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics Games. The award honours the collaborative achievement of deltatre, C4 and 13strides for their innovative work on Channel 4’s multiplatform coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic.

QED fielded no fewer than 19 Christie® high-end projectors to meet one of their most complex projection-mapping challenges ever for BBC’s Red Nose Day.

A Solid State Logic C100 HDS Digital Broadcast Console has been chosen to make classical music sing for the new Musik und Theater (MuTh) Concert Hall, the permanent home for the Vienna Boys’ Choir (VBC). The 400-seat facility is also home to many other institutions and hosts performances ranging from the Vienna Philharmonic to dance and jazz presentations. The C100 is used for front of house live sound mixing, DAW capture, post production and live-to-air broadcast/streaming. The choice of the C100 was based in part on purity of sound and SSL’s responsiveness to client needs.

With roots going back to 1776, Slovenské Národné Divadlo (the Slovak National Theatre, or SND) in Bratislava has witnessed over 300 years of drama, in all senses of the word. Its current building, the City Theatre, was constructed in 1886. A recent technical upgrade has seen a state-of-the-art Yamaha CL series system installed, allowing maximum flexibility for its performances.

As Canada’s only jazz broadcaster and registered not-for-profit charitable arts organization, JAZZ.FM91 plays a vital role enriching the cultural, educational, and community experience of their audience in Canada’s largest radio market. The venerable station is currently in the process of upgrading its facilities and, to ensure the delivery of premium content with the highest levels of reliability and flexibility, the station recently took delivery of four radio consoles and a routing system from Rastatt, Germany-based Lawo.

With 15 of the biggest Chutney Soca artists in the world taking part, the recent Chutney Soca Monarch competition, held at Skinner Park in Trinidad’s San Fernando, was the biggest of its kind in the world, showcasing talent from North America, the Caribbean and the UK. This event has been taking place for the past 18 years under the organisation of George Singh’s South Ex Event Management.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, announced the launch of its Centennial Predict-the-Future Contest. Participants' projections regarding the state of television and cinema technology in 2016, the 100-year anniversary of SMPTE's founding, will be collected from now to Nov. 1, 2013, and the winners — identified by renowned analysts — will be recognized during the Gala SMPTE Centennial Event in 2016.

UK alt rockers Kasabian headlined Friday night of the 2013 Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) event which featured seven action-packed days of music and comedy, staged at London’s Royal Albert Hall, and this year curated by Noel Gallagher to raise money and awareness for the charity.

In March 2013, the Teenage Cancer Trust held its regular series of fundraising shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London – the 13th year this has taken place. Supporting the charity, XL Video supplied LED screens, an HD camera system, recording and control for the series of seven events which, were curated by Noel Gallagher.

The Phoenix Hall in the Hungarian city of Debrecen was the setting for a recent major musical event: a performance by the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kodály Choir Debrecen and students of University of Debrecen’s music faculty, under the direction of the world-famous Japanese conductor Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony. In all during the performance, there were over 240 musicians on stage.

Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, today announced that New York City's Signature Theatre Company has installed a Riedel digital intercom system at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the company's Frank Gehry-designed home situated off-Broadway on 42nd Street. The installation includes the Riedel Artist digital intercom matrix and Acrobat Digital Wireless Intercom system, which unite to provide a flexible platform for broadcast-audio-quality communications throughout the facility.

The SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP has equipped the new music theatre in Linz, Austria with audio, communication and multimedia technology. The new theatre of superlatives, Europe's largest newly build theatre, opens doors on April 11 with an adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” by the Spanish Theatre Company "La Fura dels Baus" directed by Carlus Padrissa.