Utah Scientific, a worldwide leader in routing and master control switchers, has been awarded the 2011 Global Customer Service Leadership Award in the video switcher category for the third consecutive time by the Growth Partnership Company Frost & Sullivan. According to Frost & Sullivan, the unbiased, third-party award recognizes Utah Scientific's team for having the creativity and dedication required to deliver excellence and adhere to best industry practices.

Vimond Media Solutions CEO Helge Høibraaten has been named to Streaming Media Magazine's Dream Team for 2011. Streaming Media's Dream Team is an annual list of industry leaders the magazine recognizes for having made outstanding contributions in the field of online media, and for sharing "a passion for online video that goes beyond their own companies or products."

Record label New Ground Entertainment purchased eight JBL LSR2325P 5-inch powered studio monitors, four JBL LSR2310SP powered studio subwoofers and MSC1 Monitor System Controllers for its headquarters in Atlanta. The systems were installed in four rooms at New Ground Entertainment—two writers’ rooms and two production rooms, one of which doubles as a mix room.

Volfoni is the exclusive partner of Dimension 3 and will be outfitting all screening rooms with their brands of 3D glasses: EDGE IR for the Grand Auditorium and Workshop Pro, as well as EDGE DLP Link for the Classroom of Tomorrow.

By order of BRAINPOOL TV GmbH, acting on behalf of the NDR, Creative Technology was the chosen media technology partner and realized the largest and state-of-the-art TV set with a stunning LED installation on stage for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in the Düsseldorf arena.

The FALCON® FLOWER made quite an impression at the 56th Eurovision Song Contest recently held at Düsseldorf Arena in Germany. The show is known for making technical leaps and bounds and this year marked the biggest Eurovision in history with regards to lighting equipment and live audience. Germany had not hosted the show since 1983 but when Lena Meyer-Landrut won Eurovision 2010 in Norway with her song “Satellite”, Germany was determined to show the world how a show should be done...big.

In a move that immediately upgrades its sound reinforcement capabilities, leading Dutch sound rental company, Story Sound, has purchased a battery of over 70 HARMAN Crown I-Tech HD series amplifiers. The decision to move to I-Tech HD amplifiers was driven by many factors including the availability of the new HARMAN HiQnet Performance Manager™ software.

American Idol is the country’s most-watched TV series, and has been the number one show for six years in a row, thanks to its blend of stars in the making, audience participation and the often-unpredictable reactions of celebrity judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. For American Idol’s 2011 season, wrapping up this week, the main house PA and dialogue system has included a total of 300 JBL Professional loudspeakers, including VERTEC® line arrays and Control® Contractor loudspeakers, ensuring the contestants and judges are clearly heard no matter how loudly the audience cheers the performers.

From May 22nd to June 5th, ALFACAM is working with Panasonic, Eurosport and the French Tennis Federation to broadcast all matches from the Roland Garros Centre Court live in 3D. Alfacam will use Kronomav mirror rigs, equipped with LDK 8000 cameras from Grass Valley and Canon lenses.

EVS has recently appointed Xavier De Vynck as the Vice-President of New Market Development with a special focus on EVS’ new Archive and Media Asset Management Division in Brussels.

Broadcasting since August 2010 on Swiss television (SF) and radio (SR DRS), Zambo is a multimedia world for children, aged between seven and 13, in German-speaking Switzerland. In the programme viewers are taken on a trimedial discovery trip – via television, radio and online.

For the most important woman‘s football tournament from June 26th to July 17th 2011 in Germany Media Broadcast offers a wide range of production and transmission services to assist the TV coverage of the event.

STEREOTEC will exhibit  its state of the art 3D solutions at two of the most important trade shows worldwide in Europe and USA:

Dimension 3 in Paris, France from May 24-26, 2011

cine gear EXPO in Hollywood, USA from June 2-5, 2011

CAMERON – PACE Group (CPG) announces it is the innovative company responsible for designing and supplying 7 FUSION 3D rigs and SLATE²SCREEN™ 3D production crew for Walt Disney Pictures’ and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ 3D action-adventure film, “pirates of the carribean: on stranger tides,” directed by Rob Marshall. As the first-ever “Pirates of the Caribbean” film to be released in 3D and the fourth installment in the blockbuster “Pirates” series, it will be released in Disney Digital 3D™, IMAX® 3D as well as traditional 2D and IMAX® formats on May 20, 2011.

The Donaufestival is an Austrian festival of music and performance that takes place each April on the River Danube in Krems, in the state of Lower Austria. Promoted by the NOE Festival-Ges for the past two decades, the festival showcases a wide range of artistry — from avant-garde rock, performance art and electronica.