In order to deliver the full effect of bone crushing body slams and death-defying stunts that continue to leave fans in awe, the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) recently invested in Fairlight’s Constellation and six Xynergi consoles to meet its post-production needs. The WWE headquarters, located in Stamford, Connecticut, is the home to one of the largest entertainment companies in the world, reaching 13 million viewers in the United States while also broadcasting its shows in 30 languages to more than 145 countries.

HARMAN Soundcraft’s popular small-format (but big-hearted) digital console Si Compact has received a major upgrade with the V2 software release.

High End Systems, a Barco company, is hosting an Orlando, Florida area open house January 26 & 27, 2012. This event will allow customers to see and experience the latest technology from High End Systems. Sales and technical professionals from High End Systems will be on-hand along with intellaspot, Technospot, trackspot Bolt, DL.3 and Road Hog Full Boar consoles.

Snell is a leading innovator in digital media technology and provides broadcasters and global media companies with a comprehensive range of solutions to create, better manage, and streamline the distribution of content for today's multi-screen world. Snell will exhibit at BVE 2012.

Asahi Broadcasting Aomori (ABA), a local All-Nippon News Network facility owned by TV Asahi Corp., and specifically serving the Aomori prefecture of Japan (510,000 households), is completely upgrading its digital news production operations to a high-definition (HD), file-based system from Grass Valley™.

RME starts shipping the Fireface UCX, a highly integrated 36-channel USB and FireWire pro audio solution in an ultra-compact format, for studio and live recordings.

The Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) announced that Grass Valley CEO Alain Andreoli will join a distinguished panel of industry leaders to discuss the future of acquisition, production, post-production and distribution technologies, while Ken Kerschbaumer, the editorial director of the Sports Video Group (SVG) will join a distinguished panel of industry leaders to discuss the 10-15 year investment trajectories for key programming technologies at the SMPTE Forum on Emerging Media Technologies, an executive-level symposium to be held by the Society 13 – 15 May in Geneva and produced in collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

RTV Noord Holland, the regional station based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has introduced Ross Video’s OverDrive Automated Production Control System and XPression Virtual Studio to increase their station’s live output for News and Regional Affairs.

For their indie feature “Odd Brodsky”, cinematographer Matthew Irving and director/producer Cindy Baer chose to use LED lighting from Litepanels, a Vitec Group brand.

Following the success of its predecessor the IVM4, HARMAN’s AKG proudly launches its IVM4500 IEM In Ear Monitoring System at NAMM. Building on a leading global reputation in professional wireless audio solutions and monitoring, IVM4500 IEM supports users with high quality audio and radio performance, with reliable reference capability. Users in the tour and installed sound markets will find the easy-to-use technology ideal for onstage monitoring.

Broadcast audio technology specialists HHB Communications will be highlighting a comprehensive range of professional audio loudness tools during the BVE London show at Earls Court 2 on Stand C40 from 14th to 16th February.

Next-generation Signiant Media Exchange™ (MX) is a private cloud solution for fast, secure file transfer designed specifically for the business needs of media content providers — from major studios and global broadcasters to regional post-production houses.

Bruce Rosenblum,President of Warner Bros. Television Group and Television Academy Chairman/CEOFeatured in 2012 NAB Show Super Session Series and Ben Silverman, Founder and Chairman of Electus to Keynote NAB Show Disruptive Media Conference.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems, is pleased to announce that Vatican Television Center, known in Italy as Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV), the official broadcaster of Vatican City, has selected Eclipse-Median digital matrix and Tempest®2400 digital wireless intercoms to help cover the official activities of Pope Benedict XVI as well as the ongoing religious events and services held at the Vatican.

Atomic Lighting of Lititz, Pennsylvania, the exclusive lighting supplier for the second consecutive year to the Latin Grammy Awards, recently provided the show with 50 Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures.