The MEDIAGROUP Headquarters in Buttenheim announced several comprehensive AURUS and NEXUS installations in the Bavarian Radio Broadcast, BR, in Munich. In line with a gradual replacement of BR’s older first-generation digital CANTUS consoles, the two most important studios (Studio 1 and Studio 2) in the main BR radio centre have already been fully modernised and upgraded to AURUS systems.

As a reaction to the continued growth of the company in Switzerland, Riedel Communications, one of the leading manufacturers of real-time networks for video, audio and communications, expands its Swiss office with video and broadcasting specialist Erwin Engel, who will take care of the sales and rental markets in western Switzerland.

Fans of Indy car racing were front and center this year as viewers were treated to 12 unique drivers-seat views of the Indianapolis 500 using Adtec Digital’s compression and multiplexing, along with Newtec’s Clean Channel Technology (CCT) DVBS2 technology, all under the professional operation of Mobile Satellite Connection.

Sky News Arabia, the new 24-hour free-to-air Arabic news channel, launched in May using a sophisticated Vizrt system to deliver its live news graphics. Vizrt is the sole news graphics provider for the Abu Dhabi based channel. This is a departure from the news graphics workflow used by Sky News in the UK, sister channel to Sky News Arabia, which uses both Vizrt and another provider.

EVS has announced that CCTV KEHUA Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China Central Television (CCTV), deployed EVS solutions for the 2012 Asian Beach Games which took place in Haiyang, China last month.

HHB Communications has supplied a host of equipment for new production rooms at the recently opened NGY myplace facility in Nottingham.

At the London 2012 Olympic Games the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will bid farewell to standard definition for all major sports events.

NEP has been selected to provide an extensive array of technical and operational management services to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, for its production of the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

Live sound provider Hoffmann deployed a HARMAN audio system to support the debates of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20, held in the city of Rio de Janeiro from June 13-22. Hoffmann was responsible for the deployment of the system, which included HARMAN’s AKG microphones, JBL EON510 portable powered loudspeakers and a Soundcraft Vi1 console.

Manchester's favourite lighting and visuals rental company dbn supplied stage, DVD, audience and architectural lighting for Elbow's acclaimed show at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, home of the magnificent Lovell Radio Telescope.

Driven by a strong customer-base in Cologne and Munich, the new office in Berlin enables Presteigne Charter to offer their customers more tailored and specialised solutions for their needs, with a faster turnaround.  Until recently, the Greater Berlin area has been serviced from the Cologne Headquarters but the fast-growing business share in this region has made the opening of a separate office in Berlin essential.

XL Video supplied production company Ear To The Ground and the band Elbow with LED screens, PPU / cameras, a Catalyst media server system and crew for a sold out performance at the hugely atmospheric Jodrell Bank Observatory & Centre for Astrophysics near Manchester.

Netherlands-based production company Story Sound BV recently deployed its new HARMAN’s JBL VTX line array system at the Emporium dance festival in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The Festival, which this year drew 30,000 people (and 120 DJ’s), embraces every genre of dance music from trance/progressive to hardstyle.

The agreement was reached with SGM’s Antonio Parise during the recent Sound Check Expo in Mexico and the appointment will help the distributor to develop its lighting portfolio.

This summer, the biggest broadcasting event in history will take place – the 2012 Olympic Games in London – and, as with other international sports events before, Lawo digital consoles will play an important role in conveying the sporting action to an international TV and radio audience.