At this year’s IBC, EVS will help the broadcast industry prepare for the future with its new production systems and solutions. From meeting the needs of newsroom operations, shaping the future of sports broadcasting and helping to turn around TV productions, EVS’ solutions are designed to boost performance through flexibility, speed of delivery, and reliability.

The House of Blues (HOB) has 13 venues throughout the United States and is dedicated to offering the best in music and entertainment. As part of this commitment, HOB has contracted Sound Image of Escondido to upgrade its front-of house mixing facilities with a combination of HARMAN’s Soundcraft Vi4 and Vi6 digital mixing consoles in its New Orleans and Anaheim locations, and a Vi1 console in use at the HOB Mandalay Bay venue in Las Vegas.

Digital Rapids and Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) - the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system - announced that NPO has expanded their streaming operations with the purchase of 10 dual-channel Digital Rapids encoding systems.

Outside Broadcast, satellite uplink and product design specialist SIS LIVE announces a strategic partnership with international media solutions company BT Media and Broadcast.

The MEDIAGROUP Headquarters in Buttenheim announced several comprehensive AURUS and NEXUS installations in the Bavarian Radio Broadcast, BR, in Munich. In line with a gradual replacement of BR’s older first-generation digital CANTUS consoles, the two most important studios (Studio 1 and Studio 2) in the main BR radio centre have already been fully modernised and upgraded to AURUS systems.

As a reaction to the continued growth of the company in Switzerland, Riedel Communications, one of the leading manufacturers of real-time networks for video, audio and communications, expands its Swiss office with video and broadcasting specialist Erwin Engel, who will take care of the sales and rental markets in western Switzerland.

Fans of Indy car racing were front and center this year as viewers were treated to 12 unique drivers-seat views of the Indianapolis 500 using Adtec Digital’s compression and multiplexing, along with Newtec’s Clean Channel Technology (CCT) DVBS2 technology, all under the professional operation of Mobile Satellite Connection.

Sky News Arabia, the new 24-hour free-to-air Arabic news channel, launched in May using a sophisticated Vizrt system to deliver its live news graphics. Vizrt is the sole news graphics provider for the Abu Dhabi based channel. This is a departure from the news graphics workflow used by Sky News in the UK, sister channel to Sky News Arabia, which uses both Vizrt and another provider.

HHB Communications has supplied a host of equipment for new production rooms at the recently opened NGY myplace facility in Nottingham.

Driven by a strong customer-base in Cologne and Munich, the new office in Berlin enables Presteigne Charter to offer their customers more tailored and specialised solutions for their needs, with a faster turnaround.  Until recently, the Greater Berlin area has been serviced from the Cologne Headquarters but the fast-growing business share in this region has made the opening of a separate office in Berlin essential.

Netherlands-based production company Story Sound BV recently deployed its new HARMAN’s JBL VTX line array system at the Emporium dance festival in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The Festival, which this year drew 30,000 people (and 120 DJ’s), embraces every genre of dance music from trance/progressive to hardstyle.

The agreement was reached with SGM’s Antonio Parise during the recent Sound Check Expo in Mexico and the appointment will help the distributor to develop its lighting portfolio.

This summer, the biggest broadcasting event in history will take place – the 2012 Olympic Games in London – and, as with other international sports events before, Lawo digital consoles will play an important role in conveying the sporting action to an international TV and radio audience.

The app is the first of its kind and allows iOS users to easily browse through, select and enquire about the comprehensive range of Video and Audio Broadcast equipment for rental, whether they are in-office or out in the field.

Optocore has appointed Audio-Video Solutions Corporation (AVSC) as its new exclusive distributor in the Philippines. The company will be responsible for marketing the German manufacturer’s premium fibre networks, and broadcast routing solutions from sister company BroaMan.