RCS & RDS, Romania’s leading provider of TV, internet and telephony services, has chosen Quantel Enterprise sQ HD production systems to serve all its central and regional news production needs.

STAPLES Center is home to four professional sports franchises, the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers and the WNBA’s Los Angles Sparks. As the world renowned arena gets ready to open the doors for its thirteenth season, fans will be treated upon entry to a brand-new $3.4 million HARMAN JBL Professional VERTEC® audio system, a premier line array loudspeaker system that is in use worldwide to support numerous international tours and special events.

Over the last 10 years he has built up his Shepherd’s Bush-based studio operation into a pioneering centre of production and post production making music videos, commercials and films for clients including Robbie Williams, Björk, The Libertines, T-Mobile and Smart Cars.

The goal of the Streaming Media 100 list was to identify the companies that are the most important, most innovative, have had the most impact on the space in the recent past and are likely to continue to do so in the future. From an initial list of nearly 200 companies proposed by Streaming Media magazine’s staff and contributing editors, the judges discussed and debated the relative merits of each until arriving at the final list. Companies evaluated spanned the entire online video ecosystem, from content creation and production, to ingest and encoding, to distribution, syndication, and monetization.

I-MOVIX is pleased to announce the availability of the SprintCam Vvs HD 1.2 software release from December 2011.

Oxygen DCT’s award-winning Evolution P3 camera monitor is currently enjoying some hair-raising rides on-board a specially modified camera car belonging to Pursuit Europe, the tracking vehicle division of UK-based Helicopter Film Services.

As Glee and The Sing Off shine a new light on the vocal performance culture, Rockapella is celebrating 20 years of wowing audiences around the globe with a vast variety of musical selections spanning all genres, and utilizing only their voices for melodies, harmonies, and percussion.  Setting the stage for their annual Holiday Show Tour in 2012, the 5-man ‘band’ will travel the nation, backed up by HARMAN’s AKG DMS 700 digital and WMS 4500 wireless systems.

Maná is a pop rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned - amongst others - three Grammy Awards, five Latin Grammy Awards and five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America. Accompanying their current “Drama e Luz” world tour that started this year is a grandMA2 system, comprising 1 x grandMA2 full-size console, 1 x grandMA2 light and 2 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit).

French broadcaster TF1 is using two Grass Valley™ K2 Dyno™ Replay Systems to enable rugby fans to watch live HD replays of the key kicks, conversions, tackles, and tries from the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the largest event in France’s 2011 sporting calendar, with more than 10 million viewers expected to tune in.

3D Storm, exclusive distributor of NewTek products in the EMEA region, takes the road with the MINI LiveMan, the first HD Live Production vehicle ever made in a compact SUV.

On October 8, more than 60,000 participants celebrated the grand opening of Kiev’s Olympic National Sports Complex with a performance by Colombian pop star Shakira and an inauguration speech by Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych. Also known as Olympic Stadium, the reconstructed Soviet-era stadium will be the site of the Euro 2012 soccer championship final, as well as 2012 UEFA European Football Championship events leading up to the final.

Petrol Bags, a Vitec Group brand, introduces a new ultra-lightweight professional audio bag optimally designed to transport sound equipment comfortably and securely, and keep it safe, organized, and accessible while working.

Harmonic Inc. announced that BBC Sport will use the Omneon MediaGrid™ active storage system at the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) as part of the file-based quick-turnaround sports workflow supporting the broadcaster's London 2012 Olympic Games coverage. Hyperactive, one of the U.K.'s largest equipment hire companies, is working with Dega Broadcast Systems to supply the MediaGrid, which will provide 3,500 hours of efficient work-in-progress storage.

Once again SPORTELMonaco has completed another successful market! As announced this morning by Ms. Amparo DiFede, General Manager of SPORTEL Organization, SPORTELMonaco has reached another high with 2330 participants, representing 970 companies of 67 nations. This shows a 10% increase for the market and making it the biggest in ten years.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announces that the International Judo Federation (IJF) is to join its new online content trading platform EurovisionShowcase.com.