Australian location recorder Daniel Blinkhorn has been using DPA 2006A twin diaphragm omnidirectional microphones, supplied by local distributor Amber Technology, for his location recording work in the polar archipelago of Svalbard, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

Sports fans the world over associate the name “Bayern Munich” with soccer; yet in basketball, too, having won the German championship already in 1954 and 1955, the club is capable of great things and ambitious of a tradition to compare with that established in the beautiful game by the likes of Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, and Oliver Kahn.

The TV and New Media panels, co-produced with Sports Video Group, will include two in-depth sessions taking place on Tuesday 13th March.

The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

Penta Studiotech, LLC announced that the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) – the world’s largest broadcaster, a division of the Disney Company – adds Penta HD2line Pro monitors to its New York control rooms.

A shot is fired. The target is hit. Cheering breaks out everywhere. Every hit is celebrated frenetically by the audience. Magdalena Neuner continues on to the last lap of the sprint competition which she will finish in 1st place.

Academy and Grammy Award winning composer, musician and producer Trent Reznor, founder of the group Nine Inch Nails (NIN), has upgraded his private studio with a Solid State Logic Duality SE console.

CTS Audio, based in Franklin, Tennessee, specializes in live and installed sound, mobile staging and sales, with a strong focus on tour sound for Christian performers and in designing systems for houses of worship. CTS has provided live sound for Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, the Women of Faith tour, the National Catholic Youth Convention, Hootie and the Blowfish, Tony Bennett and many others.

On December 9th 2011 dancers, musicians, athletes, and falconers both on foot and on horseback paraded through the Khalifa Stadium in Doha (Qatar), which had been transformed into a huge screen for the opening ceremony of the 12th Arab Games.

It’s not hard to put a finger on the popularity of The X Factor, which recently completed its first season in the United States. The top-rated singing competition TV show (which aired on FOX) pits contestants against one another to see which pop singer has that certain indefinable, yet undeniable star quality—that all-important “X Factor.” To provide high-impact audio on the set of The X Factor, Valencia, California-based ATK Audiotek installed a HARMAN JBL VERTEC® line array system designed by Jeff Peterson.

Australia’s Seven Network, one of the first customers for Quantel’s Enterprise sQ system back in 2004 and now the country’s most watched network, has placed an order with Quantel to upgrade its flagship Sydney news centre to a fully file-based, HD capable operation.

Miranda Technologies Inc., a worldwide provider of production, playout and delivery systems for the television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV industries has hired Marco Rabadán Aceves to be the company’s country manager for Mexico.

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has opened its new facility in France: The Media Centre Paris. This state-of-the-art new-build facility reinforces Arqiva’s French-based operations which provide television distribution services for many major French broadcasters. Broadcast industry guests attended Arqiva’s opening celebrations which included a tour of the facility and an explanation of the services it provides.

Carburando, the Argentine motor sports broadcaster recently purchased 14 Grass Valley™ LDK 8000 Elite WorldCam high definition cameras with HD triax transmission. The new cameras will be used on Carburando’s outside broadcast truck, and form a central part of a bold project to migrate to HD.

Internationally acclaimed broadcast hire company Procam Television is now able to offer clients fully mobile production facilities after taking delivery of its first multi-purpose production vehicle, which was built by leading UK systems integration specialist Broadcast Networks.