Within days of their manufacture, four of Yamaha’s new CL series consoles were given a very high profile assignment in the challenging environment of four football stadiums at the 2012 UEFA European Football Championships. Four M7CLs were also specified for the tournament.

Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group's Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, has added an array of Canon HD zoom lenses to its rental equipment inventory. The purchase comes as part of Bexel's continuing upgrade and expansion of its long lens inventory in advance of major broadcast events up ahead this year. Included in the purchase were Canon's DIGISUPER 86II xs, DIGISUPER 22 and XJ60 lenses.

Blackmagic Design today announced that leading news organization Agence France Presse (AFP) broadcast their live coverage of the 65th Cannes Film Festival award ceremony using Blackmagic Design’s ATEM 2 M/E Production Switcher, Smart Videohub and UltraStudio 3D.

Dutch super group Within Temptation and it’s lighting designer Pim Elberse are currently proving that Clay Paky Sharpys are de-rigueur when it comes to lighting some of the world’s biggest rock bands.

Swiss rental company Livesound B-AG has added a HARMAN Soundcraft Vi1 digital console to a cutting-edge hire fleet, which already includes a larger Vi4 and several Soundcraft analogue mixing desks.

On 20.6.2012 the company Reckord – outside broadcasting s.r.o. acquired the establishment of the company Přenosy ACE a.s. and became so the largest company in the field of professional television transmissions on the territory of the Czech and Slovak Republic.

A Dutch production of “Saturday Night Fever” is touring The Netherlands and Martin’s compact MAC Aura is being used as a workhorse light in the musical’s important disco scenes.

XL Video supplied LED screens, cameras, projection and an Encore screen management system for The Maccabees recent acclaimed gig at London’s Alexandra Palace. Video designer Josh Bagnall presented original, cutting edge and highly atmospheric  visuals for the show.

Popular Norwegian pop/rock group DDE is currently out on a 20th Anniversary summer tour with a rig that includes Martin Professional’s MAC Aura wash light.

Denver-based Colorado Studio is building another new high-definition (HD) production truck for its Mobile Television Group (MTVG), which will feature a full complement of live production technologies from Grass Valley™. The new truck, which will hit the road in mid-June in Phoenix, is among numerous owned by MTVG that are based around Grass Valley technologies.

Litepanels, part of Vitec Videocom, a Vitec Group company, has supplied a range of its new Sola 6™ lighting systems to the 24-hour global news channel, Al Jazeera English.

Camera Corps Q-Ball compact all-weather robotic pan/tilt/zoom heads have been chosen by a major UK-based outside-broadcast company as commentator cameras at the 2012 Wimbledon tennis tournament.

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Invited back for the eighth consecutive year to speak with students of the School of Audio Engineering (SAE), GRAMMY®-winning engineer and platinum producer Steve Pageot presented an inspiring and educational session for the future engineers.  Showcasing HARMAN’s AKG P820 tube microphone during the workshops, Pageot recorded, and mixed a track during each of the four 2-hour sessions in SAE’s New York City studio.

XL Video supplied plasma screens and full Catalyst media management and control for the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland current production of Macbeth.