The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its Dutch Members NPO, NOS and AVROTROS are excited to have reached an agreement to stage the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam at the Ahoy Arena. The Dutch city was due to host the Contest this month before the event was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

intoPIX is happy to announce that EVS Media Infrastructure, global leader in broadcast network infrastructure, chooses to include intoPIX TICO-XS solution in its Neuron product range. Designed around IP technology, Neuron sets new benchmarks in performance and flexibility. High performance processing in a centralized and virtualized environment, delivering total flexibility and performance, and using significantly less electrical power. Neuron solves every processing task a broadcaster encounters in the IP and legacy domains, enabling multiple channels in a single device. No more physical cascading of products.

NEP Group CEO Kevin Rabbitt will leave the company on June 30 after eight years at the helm when he sets sail, almost literally, to become CEO of Hornblower Group which operates cruises and other events in cities like New York, Boston, Long Beach, and more. The transition plan was agreed to in February and all day-to-day operating responsibilities to a newly created Office of the CEO transition team led by global presidents Mike Werteen and Graham Andrews who oversee NEP’s Broadcast Services & Media Solutions and Live Events operating segments, respectively, and CFO Gerry Delon. This team, in partnership with the Carlyle Group, NEP’s financial partner, will work together with Rabbitt to make the transition to a new CEO as seamless as possible.

Elation Professional presents a very special May 20^th edition of the Elation Hour as top theatre lighting designers Bradley King, Jeff Croiter, John Froelich and Jason Lyons join hosts John Dunn and Matthias Hinrichs to share their personal insight, experiences and tricks of the trade in lighting the theatrical stage.

With Covid-19 lockdowns worldwide and health authorities urging people to self-isolate and practice social distancing on a massive scale as part of an enormous effort to #FlattenTheCurve of this global pandemic … we are reaching out to industry friends, colleagues, associates, partners, etc., and asking them to share their #StayHome and #QuarantineandChill activities with us during this extraordinary time.

NEP has been working on creating remote and virtualized solutions for over five years now. In recent months, since the COVID-19 pandemic has taken hold worldwide, we have stepped up our efforts to innovate and deliver solutions that will allow our clients to continue creating top-notch content while still social distancing. Inspired by the current challenge, we began developing our NEP Home Studio. This solution allows your talent to “go live” from their homes for any virtual event, live stream or traditional broadcast. Let’s look at what NEP Home Studio is and how it works.

As part of the Ross Live | 2020 program, Ross is today pleased to announce the latest versions of OverDrive and OverDrive Caprica, the broadcast industry’s most favored production automation solutions.    Production automation has been an important trend in studio production for over a decade, and Ross Video’s OverDrive solution has been deployed over four hundred times internationally, making it the industry’s preferred choice for highly controllable, consistent and repeatable results in the studio.

The first South Africa and Ghana editions of the hit TV game show Family Feud brought to SA and produced by Rapid Blue were recorded in December & January at the Urban Brew Studios in Johannesburg, with lighting designed by Joshua Cutts and supplied by Blond Productions … including 12 x Robe ESPRITE LED profiles newly purchased by Blond … making their African TV production debut! The hugely popular American Family Feud show has been syndicated worldwide to over 50 different countries and is one of the longest-running and most popular TV games shows, having started in 1976. Since 2010, it’s been hosted very successfully by Steve Harvey

On May 19 the Sennheiser SoundAcademy will be discussing one of the hot topics of the day – immersive audio: Sennheiser hosts David Missall and Brian Walker have invited Leslie Ann Jones, Michael Romanowski, Steve Genewick, Jim Anderson and Ulrike Anderson to speak about this exciting area. The five industry experts will discuss their approach to recording, mixing and mastering the immersive sound experience, and share their views on how immersive audio can help open up new creative possibilities and connect listeners more intimately with music. Please note the new changed timing for this webinar: It will take place at 19:30 CEST (13:30 EST). Registrations are now open at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kiCShCe4SX2EjaClcVz-Sg.

Ayrton is very happy to introduce Kseniia Igoshkina as the latest member of its international sales team. Based in Detmold, Germany, Igoshkina is responsible for emerging markets across the Baltic countries, the CIS states and South America.
 

Bandit Lites recently wrapped production on an event with Austin Yarnton and the Presentation Resource Group, illuminating a corporate meeting that had been slated for a ballroom at the Omni Hotel in Nashville. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the team pivoted to a virtual webcast conference, sharing their client’s message over three days.  
 

Sushant Rai is the new Vice President, Sales - South Asia, Middle East and Africa for TVU Networks, a technology and market leader in cloud and IP-based live video solutions. Sushant will lead strategic sales efforts across all three major regions with sales and solutions teams consolidating under his leadership.
 

Emmy Award-winning camera operator George Prince III has worked on his fair share of high-profile events. With credits including the Oscars, American Idol and the Superbowl, plus a whole host more, he has proven himself in some of the most watched and most demanding live productions. Clear communication has been vital to the success he has experienced, and this is aided by his use of Point Source Audio’s CM-i5 in-ear intercom headset.
 

Riedel Communications today announced that Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG) has adopted the company’s state-of-the-art networking and communications technologies for its studio upgrade. As broadcast rights holder and host broadcaster in Montenegro for a broad range of national and international sporting events, RTCG has installed a comprehensive signal routing and crew communications backbone based on the MediorNet real-time network, Artist digital matrix intercom, and Bolero wireless intercom.

Radio has always been a vital source of news and information when crises hit. California’s public broadcasters have traditionally been prepared for nearly any eventuality, such as disasters like earthquakes, floods and wildfires. And now they must be prepared to inform listeners during a pandemic as well.