The d&b audiotechnik benchmark E-Series comprises some of the smallest loudspeakers within the Black range of products. They are highly compact and unobtrusive in their design, making them visually discreet yet audibly impressive for such small loudspeakers. In order to expand the offering within this Series d&b is launching the new E4 and E5 loudspeakers that size wise fit below the recently launched E6, the successor for the venerable little E3. The E4 will be available from November 2011, while the release of the E5 is scheduled for January 2012.

Digital and Automated lighting pioneer High End Systems, a Barco company, is pleased to announce that ARCUS Lighting, the exclusive distributor of High End Systems and Flying Pig Systems in Germany, is now a certified Wholehog training center.  Starting in October 2011, ARCUS will hold monthly two-day training courses free-of-charge at their Paderborn, Germany offices.

FOR-A Company Limited, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, has been chosen by TVBEurope for the magazine’s Best of IBC2011 Editors’ Awards for its VFC-7000 HD Variable Frame Rate Super Slow Motion Camera. The VFC-7000 is a compact, lightweight, unit capable of high-speed HD recordings.

Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has selected Ross OverDrive to automate production of SBS’s national newscasts. Ross local business partner Techtel will design, supply and install a complete production system including Ross OverDrive, Vision Production Switcher and other 3rd party equipment.

In about 10 days Digitale Cinematographie will open its doors to the public at the “Alte Kongresshalle” at Theresienhöhe in Munich. The exhibition to be held on 20th and 21st October shows more than 45 prestigious producers and service providers and will be dedicated to the "Challenges of File-Based Workflows".

3xScreen Media is a central London-based studio that provides live and on-demand online video services for Agencies, Corporates, Events and Sports. This year, 3xScreen is exhibiting for the first time at Sportel Monaco – the international sports convention for television and new media, held at the Grimaldi Centre, Monaco 10-13 October 2011.

The recent 4-day 2011 Dew Tour Portland Invitational in Oregon featured a variety of BMX and skateboarding competitions, along with a live performance by hip-hop group The Cool Kids, with Maryland Sound International (MSI) providing HARMAN’s JBL VERTEC® line arrays and Soundcraft Si Compact 16 mixing consoles for the competition and concert areas.

LiveU, the leader in portable video-over-cellular solutions, today announced that NBC is expanding usage of its LU60 live video transmission system, deploying increased numbers of LiveU units to cover the 2012 US presidential race. LiveU provides rapid and convenient video uplink from any place candidates take the campaign using bonded 3G/4G LTE, Wi-Fi and WiMAX cellular links.

Broadcast Solutions and LGZ Broadcasting Tech from Sweden signed an exclusive distribution agreement at IBC 2011. Broadcast Solutions will from now on be responsible for all sales activities for the products of LGZ Broadcasting Tech.

At the SPORTELMonaco 2011 conference, to be held on October 10-13 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Grass Valley™ will demonstrate to attendees how they can cost-effectively deploy intuitive, file-based workflows to help produce a wide variety of live sporting events in various high-definition resolutions as well as 3D.

WIGE Int’l TV-Marketing GmbH concludes an exclusive distribution partnership with SN1 Consulting, a sports marketing & media agency focused on the CEE markets. The Munich-based office will represent WIGE TV-Marketing’s portfolio for Eastern and Southeast Europe, including Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia and the Balkan states.

Theatrical performer and musician Emilie Autumn, backed by her all-female band the Bloody Crumpets, doesn’t stinton the entertainment. Apart from singing, violin-playing and vaudevillianchit-chat between performers, Autumn’s act includes aerial flying, burlesque fan dancing, stilt-walking, fire eating and multiple costume changes. She finds the only headworn mic to keep pace with her flamboyant performances is the DPA4088 cardioid headset.

When the Pope is travelling, no expense is spared to assure the highest security standards for everyone involved. This applies particularly to broadcasters reporting directly from the special occasion and, as a result, demands extensive logistical organization on their part. The German broadcaster SWR was at the centre of the action for the Pope’s visit to Freiburg, providing OB vans for radio and television coverage, and with Lawo consoles playing a central role.

AXON will attend the CCW/HD World, booth 1313, to be held in Javits Convention Center, New York on October 12 and 13, 2011.  Axon will be showing live presentations and demonstrations from its extensive range of Cortex monitoring and control software, SynView multiviewer, Synapse modular interfaces and 3rd generation compliance recording system TRACS2. John Carapella, AXON’s new Director of Sales USA will be present.

A state of the art interactive 3D presentation was one of the highlights during this year’s DeWalt/Stanley Black & Decker meeting at the world famous Nurburgring race track in Germany.