Palm Beach Opera has brought joy to Florida’s classical music fans with an innovative opera festival with nine days of performances at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. The socially distanced event was the company’s first outdoor, open-air festival which implemented a variety of measures to ensure the safety of performers, crew and audience members alike.

• New Zealand OTT operator leverages The Switch’s MIMiC cloud-based production service to edit, package and deliver clips to social media
• Taps into The Switch’s global network and connectivity to premier sports venues around the world

The Collectv, the Emmy award-winning broadcast solutions and workflows consultancy, is pleased to announce its involvement in the production process of Netflix’s fly-on-the-pitwall F1 documentary series Formula One: Drive to Survive. The third season of the Box to Box Films production, covering the dramatic events of the 2020 Grand Prix calendar, will air on Netflix from March 19, a week before the 2021 F1 season commences at the Bahrain International Circuit in Bahrain.

Innovation Nation, the CBS Saturday morning TV show about change-making technologies, recently called on Verge Aero, a leading innovator and creator of drone light show systems, to find out more about the new aerial technology that is transforming entertainment events and celebrations.

The Shiki Theatre Company is one of the largest and most reputable in the world, staging 3,000 performances to an audience of over three million in a typical year. The organization is comprised of ten performance venues across several major Japanese cities, where artists from around the world can take the stage. The Shiki Theatre Company requires flexible and reliable communication technologies to support the diversity of their productions, employing Clear-Com®’s Encore® Analog Partyline System across all performance spaces, including the two newly renovated theaters that reopened in October of 2020.

Florida Georgia Line’s highly-anticipated fifth studio album, LIFE ROLLS ON, launched February 12 to worldwide acclaim. As part of the album release, the superstar duo, comprised of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, filmed multiple promotional performances at The Steel Mill, a turnkey studio and production space that features a Bandit Lites rig outfitted with more than one hundred moving light fixtures, a video package from MooTV, staging from Gallagher Staging and a sound system from Clair Global. 

With up to 50,000 people in and out of the Georgia World Congress Center each day over a two-day period in February, the Cheersport National Cheerleading Championship in Atlanta may be the largest event to have taken place in the world under the COVID pandemic. Rental and production company Lite Tek Entertainment supplied and designed lighting for the event and turned to an Elation lighting package of Cuepix™ and DTW™ blinders, Protron™ strobes, SixPars™ and more to highlight team routines across five different stages. 

Christian artist Chris Tomlin and best selling author and pastor Max Lucado joined with other contemporary Christian musicians for “Good Friday Worldwide,” a worship service that aired on Trinity Broadcasting Network April 2. Bandit Lites supplied a lighting system for the program, which was simulcasted to the radio by K-LOVE and Air1, in addition to 30 other radio stations across the country.

Diversified installs a K2 and A15 system that provides a nearfield-like experience and consistent coverage in an acoustically and architecturally challenging space.
 

The German company HAIX is internationally known as a manufacturer of premium quality functional footwear ‘Made in Europe’, which is particularly popular with fire brigades and special forces operators, as well as craftsmen.
The common denominator of its products is extremely high quality.
 

For Gridiron fans everywhere, the annual NFL entry draft is a highly anticipated event, bringing all thirty-two teams together to announce player selections, which can ultimately alter the fate of a franchise. First held in 1936, the draft has increased in popularity every year. The words “you’re on-the-clock” have become synonymous with an event that is now a full-scale production, garnering primetime TV audiences measured in the millions.

TVU Networks, one of the market and technology leader in cloud and IP-based live video solutions, was the top pick in the 2021 NFL Draft for cloud-based video distribution. All 32 NFL teams used the TVU Anywhere remote production app and TVU Grid, a cloud-based video distribution network, for footage of their Draft rooms during the three-day draft that began on April 29. Plus, TVU was tasked with supporting the live video feeds of 50 off-site player prospects for the broadcast production.
 
 

In the British live TV show “Dancing on Ice”, a figure skater is skating among the dancers with a Sony HDC-P50 camera and Canon HJ14 lens. This broadcast camera is stabilized and remote-controlled through a NEWTON system and the results are unique in the broadcast world.
 

Twenty-four Astera AX1 Tubes – high-quality wireless LED luminaires – were utilised by lighting designer Michael Negrao from event technical specialist Scene Change in Brisbane at the Australian launch event for the new Lamborghini Huracán STO (Super Trofeo Omologata).

Mellow Yellow Entertainment, producers of South African music games show “Musiek Roulette” wanted a new look for the 2021 season, so called on the services of Ryan Lombard, head of show lighting at Blond Productions and Michael Gill, owner of Michael Gill Designs  to design lighting and set respectively.