One of the biggest annual events in Huddersfield, the Festival of Light, once again made a great impression in 2010. The festival took place from 02nd – 05th December 2010, and alongside the main event in St George’s Square there were a wide range of fringe events taking place across the town. Part of the festival this year was ‘Light Trail’, an event that saw several of the towns landmarks illuminated, with the display commencing at 4pm every afternoon for the duration of the festival.

Positioned as the digital mixing solution for all sizes of sound company or user, the new Soundcraft Si Compact Series is a power-packed range of digital consoles that brings all the experience of Soundcraft’s digital mixing platforms to a very affordable price level for tour sound, corporate event, house of worship and theatre applications, amongst others.

The Royal Variety Performance held annually at The London Palladium Theatre is a vast, live command performance showcasing over 30 acts in the presence of HRH Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

NUSSLI, a global supplier of modular stadiums, was commissioned this week by the city of Düsseldorf with the construction of an interim stadium for the second-division soccer team Fortuna Düsseldorf. NUSSLI will erect the temporary stadium next to the ESPRIT arena in eight weeks building time. The last home games of the season will be played in the stadium, which can hold about 20,000 spectators.

Camera Corps, a world leader in broadcast-quality remote cameras and tracking systems, announces a key addition to its management team with the appointment of Jeff White as Design & Development Engineer.

Legendary 80s rock group Indochine wrapped up their “Meteor Tour” at the Palais Omnisport de Bercy in Paris on 14th and 15th September, 2010. The band, whose 30-year career continues to draw not only fans from their earliest days but also the children of those fans, played 62 dates on the tour, attracting some 800,000 concert-goers.

Following its acquisition by Francisco Partners, Grass Valley has announced a new executive team which will be headquartered in San Francisco, California. Leading the team as President and CEO will be Alain Andreoli.

The countdown is on: in just three weeks time, the major players of the sports business industry shall meet at the 15th Sports Business Summit (SpoBiS). This time round though, the largest sports business event in Europe will not take place in Munich on 7-8 February, 2011 but rather in Düsseldorf.

L-S-B Broadcast Technologies GmbH will be a guest of Studio Hamburg Media Consult International (MCI) on Thursday 20 January 2011. From 10.00 onwards, the German software company will be presenting a non-proprietary intercom control system and further innovations relating to its VSM control system on stand 3.26 at the MCI Hamburg Open 2011. The Virtual Studio Manager (VSM) is the overall control system manufactured by L-S-B. On the basis of an IP network structure, the VSM allows all production and broadcast-related devices to be controlled and monitored using a freely configurable user interface.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems, today announced the appointment of Orbital Sound Ltd as its UK distributor in the Live Event/Live Performance market, with effect from 1 January 2011. The leading sound and communication systems specialist for the theatre, event and broadcast markets will offer Clear-Com’s full range of professional intercom products.

Front Porch Digital, a global leader for solutions that migrate, manage, and market media content, today announced it has named two experienced product development executives to new positions on its marketing team. Susan Crouse has joined Front Porch Digital as product marketing director for the DIVASolutions Manage line of products, while Travis Johnson will serve as product marketing manager for DIVASolutions Migrate. Their responsibilities include identifying appropriate Front Porch Digital solutions to meet customer needs and ensuring that customers have both the access and the support required for implementing those solutions.

The annual winter event put on by Kirklees Council was this year expanded to fill the weekend across 2nd – 5th December. As well as the usual street theatre spectacular which traditionally packs out the town’s St George’s Square, the council prepared other events, all project managed by TG Events’ Tim Garbutt.

At this year’s Integrated Systems Show at Amsterdam, Natural View Systems from Buttenheim (Germany) will present a world first: the iVu display system for spatially enhanced stereoscopic reproduction of video images. The patents pending algorithm used by iVu computes a 3-D spatial image from every possible digital 2D-content. The system outputs the processed signal in real-time and is applicable to video content in any format and resolution. Watching spatial video produced by iVu requires just a standard HD autostereoscopic screen. The image can be enjoyed without glasses as the spectators are used to it by other systems.

The Mobile Division of Chinese Central Television with its exclusive mobile advertising partner 3rd Space, announced today that it is ‘open for business’ for brands wishing to advertise on its mobile WAP portal and iPhone and Android apps.

Syrian National TV (ORTAS), Syria's national TV channel, will soon be launching a new 24-hour news channel and expanding its current infrastructure. Once more, they will be relying on the Spanish company, who put into operation their current automation and news production systems two years ago. The main reasons for this choice were the channel’s overall satisfaction with VSN solutions, the commitment and support received, and the system's efficient adaptation to Arabic texts.