Clear-Com®, a global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems, continues to expand its reach into Ireland with the appointment of Tyrell CCT as its distributor for the region. The leading creative technology solutions provider is offering Clear-Com’s full range of professional intercom products. Tyrell CCT will open up a broader customer base in Ireland’s broadcast, theatrical and corporate markets to the streamlined, reliable communications workflows made possible by Clear-Com intercoms.

Wohler Technologies today announced the opening of a new Wohler service center serving customers in the EMEA territory. Based in France, the Wohler EMEA Service Center will act as the first line of second- and third-tier support for Wohler customers, not only enabling faster turnaround times, but also simplifying administrative paperwork and shipping procedures. First-tier support and administrative tasks, such as RMA requests, will continue to be handled by staff at Wohler's U.S. headquarters.

The theatre of the city of Münster, Germany, uses the summer break to renew its audio, lighting and stage technology and has opted for SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP as general contractor for the audio part. The contract involves the replacement of a thirteen years old CANTUS console by a powerful AURUS desk with 48 faders and 128 input channels, new processor, interface and microphone cards for the existing NEXUS network plus an upgrade for the NEXUS software.

Billed as the world's most expensive (US$5.7 billion) standalone casinos, Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. With the casino complete, the resort also features a 2,560-room hotel, a 120,000m² convention-exhibition centre, The Shoppes Mall, an Art & Science museum, two Sands Theatres, six restaurants, two floating pavilions and a casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines. The complex is topped by the 340m-long SkyPark with capacity for 3,900 people and a 150m long infinity swimming pool set on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform. Recently the opening party covered several venues, including the Waterfront and the SkyPark.

Worlds First All-in-One Professional Ortho-Stereoscopic Broadcast Camera for 3D Broadcast with Automatic Zoom, Focus, Horizontal Axis & Moving Sensor Control

DPA Microphones has appointed Melody House Musical Instruments as its new distributor in Dubai. The appointment is part of a rebranding process that will see Melody House move more into the pro audio sector to complement its MI roots.

Eyeheight announces two major new additions to its range of broadcast-quality production and post-production tools. Scheduled for introduction at IBC 2010 in September, both address the need for tighter control of audio levels during television transmissions, particularly the relative levels of programmes and interstitials. Both conform to the ITU-R BS.1770 recommendation and its US equivalent, ATSC A/85:2009 (Recommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television).

48 years after winning the UEFA Cup , the Spanish club Atletico Madrid has once again won a European club trophy. In the final of the UEFA Europa League in Hamburg on May 12th, 2010 Atlético defeated FC Fulham 2:1 after extra time in front of 49,000 spectators in the HSH Nordbank Arena. With his goals in the 32nd and 116th minute Uruguayan Diego Forlan decided the outcome of the match.

On June 6th, the Dutch cable operator Ziggo and Sony produced the first ever live broadcast in the Netherlands. The renowned venue – Paradiso played host to the leaders of the major political parties before the general election on June 9th.

Trilogy Communications, the global provider of digital intercom systems and Master Reference Generators to the broadcast industry, launches its innovative, new distributed matrix intercom, Gemini, at IBC 2010 on stand 10.A29.

The Sonisphere Festival is a great metal and hard rock music festival, which, in contrast to the usual music festivals, isn’t held in a specific place each year, but tours with different bands throughout the world.
On June 22nd and 23rd, 2010 the Sonisphere Festival came to Sofia, Bulgaria. The metal genre ‘big names’ - Metallica, Slayer, Manowar, Alice In Chains, Megadeth, Mastodon, Anthrax, Rammstein and Stone Sour performed.

Megahertz (MHz), an international independent systems integrator, has received an order from Racecourse Technical Services Ltd (RaceTech), the innovative racecourse services provider, for three new High-Definition (HD) Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicles to provide the production facilities for Racing UK Ltd, the premier independent horseracing broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. The high-specification trucks that will be designed and built by MHz are due to be deployed in the first quarter of next year — with the 2011 Cheltenham Festival in March expected to be the first major horseracing fixture to be shown in HD by terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 4.

A week before the start of the World Cup in South Africa, ProSieben broadcastedseveral ‘specials’. The first was Stefan Raab’s World Cup before the World Cup – the "TV total Car Ball World Cup 2010". The programme was broadcast live on June 4th at 20.15 and featured 8 nations in two groups of 4 teams competing for the cup at the LANXESS arena in Cologne.

Thomson Grass Valley will arrive in Amsterdam for IBC 2010 with a lineup of new products and upgrades from its transmission and headend units. These units were not included in Francisco Partners’ recent binding offer to Technicolor concerning the Grass Valley broadcast unit, and the businesses plan to operate individually going forward.

Dalet Digital Media Systems will showcase Dalet Enterprise Edition, their flagship News and Media Asset Management (MAM) solution, featuring its new Workflow Engine at the IBC 2010 exhibition, held in Amsterdam from September 10 – 14 in Hall 8, Stand B77. This latest version of Dalet Enterprise Edition offers the only solution on the market that fully integrates leading-edge creative and editorial tools for News, Sports and Program production with MAM and workflow automation.