Hugely successful Australian burlesque Star Wars parody “The Empire Strips Back” has just completed its most extensive North American tour to date, also visiting Canada for the first time, complete with a suitably boisterous lightshow designed by Peter Rubie, featuring 30 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams as the core moving light fixtures.

A total of nine rights-holding broadcasters were awarded gold, silver or bronze trophies following a vote by an international jury headed by IOC Member Anant Singh, a leading professional in the film and media industries and Chair of the IOC's Communication Commission.

The company’s data centres are linked to clients via the domestic fibre optic infrastructure and other data centres in the Netherlands. NEP also has direct fibre optic connections with the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) and a large number of international data centres.

One of our industry’s most renowned and longest serving lighting designers, Michael Ledesma, has been lighting one of music’s most enduring and beloved artists, Carlos Santana, for the last six years on the guitar legend’s House of Blues residency in Las Vegas.

DTC Broadcast Nano HD transmitters were deployed to spectacular effect for coverage of the 13th L’Olla de Núria, a two-day “skyrunning” event on 8-9 June in the Spanish Pyrenees mountains. Skyrunning is an extreme sport of mountain running above 2,000 metres where the incline exceeds 30 percent and the climbing difficulty does not exceed II° grade.

Italian showman, superstar and self-styled provocateur Vasco Rossi – Il Blasco – was back with another monumental Live Kom tour including six sold out nights at Milan’s San Siro stadium – packed with 70,000 fans a pop – delighting all with a performance spectacle to match his profile as Italy’s most loved and talked about rock star! Leading the creative production team was lighting designer Giovanni Pinna, who has worked with the artist for many years as part of a talented team ensuring that the live shows are constantly exciting, interesting and innovative and meet the massive public expectations each year.

Ross Video production equipment, including the Carbonite Ultra production switcher and XPression graphics platform, powered multiple stages of last week’s E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) event for Paperlyte Films, production partner for major esports and gaming clients such as Twitch, Facebook Gaming and Ubisoft.

With his rap music, a tattooed body, multiple television roles and hourly social media posts, Fedez incarnates the modern ideal of a versatile, interactive showman.
 

When Moscow’s Dynamo Stadium was closed for demolition in 2008, the city turned its focus to the design and construction of a new multi-purpose facility that would better fit the metropole’s growing need for a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment complex.  Opening its doors this year, the new VTB Arena includes the 26,000-capacity Central Dynamo Stadium, dedicated to football, and the Universal VTB Indoor Arena, a 13,000-capacity ice hockey facility. Both venues needed a sound system that could deliver power and quality for sporting events and entertainment alike.
 

EVS, globally recognized as the leader in live video technology and new media productions, today announced a partnership with Athens-based BON STUDIO S.A., a comprehensive provider of professional video, sound, lighting, and digital technology and solutions.

Riedel Communications today announced that Venuetech has signed an agreement to become a distributor for Riedel’s full line of real-time media network and communications solutions in the Middle East.  Based in Dubai, Venuetech is a leading professional AV systems integrator and distributor serving the broadcast and AV markets throughout UAE.

Grass Valley’s all-in-one media production platform, GV STRATUS, has been selected to deliver end-to-end newsroom capability by three major LATAM broadcasters: TV Bahia, TV Integração and TV Pajuçara. These partnerships cement Grass Valley's position as the market leader in live production, making it the clear choice for broadcasters across this region. GV STRATUS enables broadcasters to get stories to air first, leveraging its powerful, flexible and agile toolset to simplify workflows within the news production environments.

MOG Technologies, the worldwide supplier of end-to-end solutions for professional media, today announces full support on NewTek’s NDI®, the most widely adopted and used IP technology in the world for transporting video, audio and metadata over standard 1Gb. Ethernet networks.

Stage Tec, the Berlin-based manufacturer of professional audio technology, has upgraded the AURUS mixing system at German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF medienakademie to AURUS platinum. The console has 40 faders and is embedded in a NEXUS network with a router and four Base Devices. NEXUS has been equipped with the latest components, such as the RIF67 router interface for Ravenna and the powerful RMDQ audio DSP unit for resource-intensive productions.

Production AV hotfooted it to Wembley in May to ensure man-of-the-moment Jack Savoretti’s flagship show was backed by the best camera, projection and IMAG screen solution to delight his ever-growing fanbase.