In the beginning the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival was targeted at jazz and blues enthusiasts and was held in November each year. Various factors, including heavy rains which occur at that time of the year, encouraged the organizers to move the dates of the festival to the end of January.

With big budget 3D productions continuing to dominate our cinema screens plus the ever-increasing presence of 3D technology in our homes, it's clear that 3D will continue to be a consideration for production and content delivery professionals for the foreseeable future. The 3D Revolution Theatre provides the perfect forum to keep up to date with this ever-evolving medium.

Dalet Digital Media Systems announced today that Indian broadcaster Mahuaa Media Private Limited (MMPL) has expanded its existing Dalet newsroom system in Nodia, India, to launch an additional 24/7 news channel. Newsline UP, the brand-new Hindi-language channel complements Mahuaa Bihar, the Bhojuri-language channel, which was the country’s first facility to deploy the Dalet MAM-based, tapeless workflow in 2009. Dalet business partner Ideal Broadcasting India Pvt Ltd. integrated the facility.

Vitec Videocom, which represents some of the most respected companies in the industry, is proud to be showcasing a range of best-in-class, innovative products across all eight of its brands at this year’s BVE 2012.

Ross Video has announced the acquisition of FX-Motion, a robotic camera systems company based in Brussels, Belgium.  FX-Motion is now Ross Robotics, adding a new product line into Ross’ Video Production Technology portfolio.

Just over one hundred and fifty years ago Brampton was first recognised as a village with a population of five hundred souls. Today it is home to around five hundred thousand people making it one of Canada’s largest cities. Although urban sprawl has brought it closer to Toronto, Brampton has an individual and proud cultural heritage that celebrates the hardworking and industrious nature of its citizens. The Rose Theatre, built in 2006 in the very centre of the city, is a confident combination of glass and brick that boldly reflects the city's pride in itself.

W-DMX™ by Wireless Solution Sweden is currently being used for a rigorous show schedule at the Oslo Opera House, home to the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and considered one of the landmark modern buildings in Oslo.

CG Builder is being used in Million's Poet, a reality television show broadcasted by United Arab Emirates television network 'Abu Dhabi TV'. The show, which presents a competition to find Middle East's most talented poet in Arabic poetry, has been compared to American Idol and is very popular in the Middle East.

Sky News Arabia, the free-to-air 24-hour Arabic rolling news channel, launching in spring 2012, today announced the move of its editorial and operational teams into its newly built state-of-the-art studio site in Abu Dhabi city. The new studio and production facilities are considered to be the most advanced in the region.

On Feb. 5 US football fans were descending to Indianapolis, host city of this year’s National Football League (NFL) finals known as the Super Bowl. On this special occasion, famous television late night host Jimmy Fallon broadcast four of his shows on Feb 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th from the Hilbert Circle Theatre in the heart of Indianapolis using STAGETEC NEXUS as his audio backbone.

The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) announced that Martin Guillaume, the IBM Global Business Services leader for media in the UK and Ireland, will join The Forum panel "Show Me Where The Money Is" to discuss the kinds of business models and overall structures media companies need to be successful in the next 10 to 15 years.

To help the world’s leading broadcasters and advertising agencies fully realize their ideas and visions, Baltimore, Maryland-based Producers Video relies on Fairlight’s XCS Constellation with the Xynergi as a center panel for a professional A/V solution. As Maryland’s premier film, video, audio production and post-production house, Producers Video runs campaigns for nationally known brands such as Dick’s Sporting Goods, Under Armour and Toyota, among others.

Harris Corporation will unveil its next-generation family of file-based analysis solutions at upcoming shows in South Asia, the Middle East and North America — bringing top-tier quality control without compromise to broadcasters, content producers, cable networks, post houses and other digital media operations.

Today, Philips is proud to introduce the final music video created for the winning track “No One’s Town” from the global Obsessed with sound competition 2011, featuring the winners of the competition, Inky from Sao Paolo, Brazil, the Metropole Orchestra and Steve Lillywhite. The competition searched for unheard music talent with the greatest sound across the world, offering the winner the chance to have their track re-worked by the Metropole Orchestra, the worldwide leading pop and jazz orchestra, and then produced by Grammy Award winning producer, Steve Lillywhite.

"Our new Artemis is a powerful, full-featured broadcast-production audio console with full redundancy, designed to be an integral part of the Bluefin™2/Hydra2 family," said Henry Goodman, head of sales and marketing at Calrec. "We look forward to showing NAB visitors how Artemis provides a cost-effective platform that is easily expanded."