Rainer Litfin and Gregor Erlitz have been given responsibility for the overall coordination of sales in their respective spheres of activity within Lawo’s sales department. The creation of these two new positions was a direct result of Lawo’s continuous growth and their products’ sustained worldwide popularity.

 NanfangTV, a regional Chinese broadcast station covering an area of approximately 100 million people equipped its new 14 camera HD OB truck with an intercom system from Riedel Communications. RacPro, Riedel's Chinese partner installed a system combining Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom and Performer digital partyline technology.

Premium image-processor manufacturer Calibre UK returns to IBC this year with a host of new products to round out an offering sure to appeal to existing dealers and new distributors alike

Vinten today announces its new Vector 750i - which will launch at IBC2010 - has been shortlisted as one of the ‘Top 10 most innovative in design’ by the IABM judging panel.

In a move that further strengthens its India sales and support infrastructure with over 40 years of combined A/V sales experience, Harman Professional today announced the creation of three new sales teams positions and the appointments of Kaushal Garg, Robin Ghose, and Vibhor Khanna to fill the roles. The new additions will serve as the national sales manager and the regional sales managers for North and West India, respectively, and will be directed by Harman Professional’s Senior Director of Sales for Asia, David McKinney.

Gekko Technology announces a new addition to its range of LED-based video and film lighting equipment. A soft light designed for studio and location use, the karesslite 6006-DD has twice the number of emitters and hence twice the brightness of the existing karesslite 6006. Available in daylight (5600K), tungsten (3200K) versions, it incorporates a 6 x 12 emitter format in a 300 x 300 mm panel with a front-to-back depth of 165 mm and a weight of 4.8 kg including diffuser.

Wohler Technologies today announced that Milan-based ARET Video and Audio Engineering s.r.l., a distributor and integrator of broadcast systems, will serve as an Italian distributor for the full line of Wohler products. During the IBC2010 show in Amsterdam, an ARET mobile production truck located outside the RAI at OE116, will showcase a range of Wohler audio and video monitoring solutions.

The San Diego based rental company Meeting Services Inc. (MSI) used a versatile signal distribution setup from Riedel Communications at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. The system combined HD video distribution over Riedel MediorNet with a RockNet digital audio network.

Shopping for the ideal microphone system often means comparing and contrasting many of the same features across the board - including the frequency range, channel quantity and ease of operation - but there is one feature that is often overlooked that can have a significant impact on the overall performance of any microphone or wireless microphone system: the battery life.

Trilogy Communications, the global provider of digital intercom systems and Master Reference Generators to the broadcast industry, today announced that Alpha TV in Greece has selected its Mercury IP Intercom system to provide flexible, real-time voice communications over an IP network to its production sites and interview studios across Athens

• The Byscenen in Trondheim is one of the most renowned venues in Norway
• The Technical Director of the theatre, Thomas Denstad, described the system as ‘wonderfully versatile’

As a single-source colour-tunable LED array, Gekko's kleer colour utilises a number of light-emitting diode on a single chip which can be tuned under software control to produce millions of different colour temperatures. With the capacity to emulate traditional light sources, kleer colour gives lighting directors and camera crews unprecedented control of lighting for image capture.

The opera house in Zurich decided to install a new communications system from Riedel Communications. Riedel, one of the leading manufacturers of fiber, intercom, audio and radio technology, delivered a flexible system combining Artist digital matrix intercom and Performer partyline technology.

With the completion of Lawo’s new, state-of-the-art production facilities, consoles from Innovason, the French manufacturer of digital live systems, will be assembled, as from July 2010, at the Lawo factory. Relocating the final assembly of Eclipse consoles to Rastatt, Germany, is Innovason’s response to the growing demand for its latest console.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in mission-critical voice communication systems, is now shipping worldwide its groundbreaking Tempest®2400 digital wireless intercom with a new firmware update. This update introduces two new modes of operation — Shared Mode and Split Mode — each with appealing feature sets that will improve workflow efficiency, such as the ability to connect an unlimited number of BeltStations to a Tempest2400 BaseStation.