Christmas in New York is iconic. Shopping on 34th street. Silver bells ringing as people bustle about. The city feels alive. For the last eighty years, the start of the holiday season has been officially marked with the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Decorated with over forty five thousand LED lights and met by the famous Rockefeller Center ice skating rink, the largest New York City tree stands as a symbol of holiday cheer.

Academy and Grammy Award winning composer, musician and producer Trent Reznor, founder of the group Nine Inch Nails (NIN), has upgraded his private studio with a Solid State Logic Duality SE console.

Ikegami (www.ikegami.eu), the leading manufacturer of specialised cameras and image processing equipment in the broadcast and medical industries, today announced the appointment of Trev Sword to General Manager UK. Effective immediately, Sword is responsible for heading up Ikegami’s UK, Ireland and Africa operations as well as managing all key customer accounts, system integrators and channel partners across the regions.

Trevisan’s Lens, official representative of Fujinon for 30 years, is supplying the latest high quality  lens for the main TV stations and producers in Brazil in order to cover the World Cup, highlighting the Cabrio lens.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado is one of the most iconic concert venues in the world. Everyone loves playing at this unique setting with  its special ambience … and for a recent Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) gig, LD Marc Janowitz used Robe BMFL Spots to highlight the magnificent rock formation at the back of the stage.Marc is currently on tour with the artist with whom he’s worked since 2012. It is the third TAB tour that he has designed, and this time, the design brief was to break everything right down to basics and take a pure-lighting approach with no video, scenic or backdrops.

Following his fourth studio album release in September, R&B sensation Trey Songz has teamed up with Usher for the international OMG Tour, utilizing AKG microphones for lead vocals and his band’s lead guitar and percussion. With a 40-minute set each of the 58 nights of the tour, Songz’s relies on top-quality technology to deliver memorable performances to hundreds of thousands of fans in the world’s most famous venues.

With the acquisition of Abekas at IBC 2016, Ross Video added the feature-rich 3-channel Tria 3 Clip Server to its production solutions.  New and shipping at NAB 2017, is the Abekas Tria 2. The next generation of Tria clip server, Tria 2 is a 2-channel clip server featuring one record and two playback channels, which can be paired as a single video/key channel or two independent video channels.  Tria 2 uses fast, high reliability Solid State Drives and is available with several drive capacities.

Now in its 50th year, the UK’s Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards celebrate the UK’s most popular presenters and programmes, including soap operas, daytime magazine entertainment and specialist shows.

Celebro Media, the international provider of studio facilities and broadcast operations, recently relied on NewTek’s TriCasterÒ Advanced Edition live production solution to help its client, global broadcaster TRT World, to continue reporting via Facebook Live during the attempted coup in Turkey.

NewTek™ today launched TriCaster™ Mini HD-4 sdi––the world’s most complete and compact multimedia studio, now featuring HD-SDI hardware. The new model provides customers a choice between professional SDI I/O and the highly popular, ultra-portable HDMI version of TriCaster Mini allowing even more users to transform their ordinary presentations into engaging multimedia content that looks like network-style TV.

NewTek, the leader in IP-based video technology and part of the Vizrt Group, is proud to announce that IBC is using the recently launched TriCaster® 2 Elite as its live production system of choice for an upcoming panel discussion on the cutting edge of broadcast technology. Announced today as a special event during the live 5G Remote Production Accelerator panel – the ten project broadcaster ‘Champions,’ including the BBC, BT Sport, TV2, Yle, ViacomCBS, and Olympic Broadcasting Services, will rely on TriCaster 2 Elite’s unique remote production offerings and powerful, integrated live production capabilities to explore use cases for 5G-enabled remote broadcast.

NewTek™ today announced a significant update to TriCasterÒ Advanced Edition, a software option available for TriCaster 8000, 860, 400 and Mini series. With over 100 operator-centric capabilities requiring no additional hardware, TriCaster Advanced Edition now enables advanced IP workflows that help grow audiences, elevate brand standards and save valuable time. Among the many new integrated features, this update of TriCaster Advanced Edition implements NewTek’s groundbreaking Network Device Interface (NDI™) technology, letting users work seamlessly with low latency, broadcast-quality video via direct IP integration with other connected devices.

Trickbox TV, the video production and broadcast services provider, continues to invest in 4K equipment for OB projects and studio work at Tower Bridge TV Studios. The latest purchase includes a Blackmagic URSA 4K camera, which is scheduled for a July delivery, and a GB Labs LTO archive system which will significantly increase Trickbox’s storage capacity in preparation for more 4K content.

Trickbox TV, the broadcast services provider, has designed and installed two brand new studios for Hochanda TV, a new Peterborough-based 24-hour arts and crafts channel. The channel boasts 365 day transmission to Sky, Freeview and Freesat, broadcasting live for 12 hours each day.

Trickbox TV, the broadcast services provider, has delivered studio facilities for interviews from the main Mayoral candidates for the Mayoral Election taking place alongside the London Assembly election on Thursday 5th May 2016.