One of the fast emerging collectives on the UK festival scene are the Chai Wallahs, whose increasingly familiar marquees are dedicated to providing an eclectic blend of music appealing to different lifestyles.

A division of CTV Limited, MuchMusic is Canada’s music station—dedicated to providing an entertaining, informative, and engaging look at popular music as it happens. Broadcast across North America and around the world, MuchMusic provides a platform for the voices of several generations of music makers and their fans.

BCE received three awards at the International Tourism Film Festival (ART&TUR) in Barcelos, Portugal, for the short film “Is it true what they say about Luxembourg?” The film project is based on the use of Luxembourg’s prejudices to describe the real story about the country. The project presents Luxembourg through 10 short films ranging from tourism, business, finance, life, to wines, holidays, etc… Each production has its own identity with high emotion and modern style.

Taking advantage of the power and flexibility of Crown’s I-Tech Series amplifiers, Sirius Showequipment AG of Niederdorfelden, Germany provided Audio Analysts with over 100 of Crown’s I-Tech amplifiers for use on the Bruce Springsteen tour throughout Europe. The European leg of the 23-stop tour began with three shows in Dublin, Ireland on May 22nd, 23rd and 24th followed by four shows throughout the U.K.

UK based lighting designer Paul Normandale specified a grandMA2 light console to run lighting for the Scissor Sisters current "Night Works" world tour. Normandale likes the feel of the console, and used one with Glen Johnson (Scissor Sisters Lighting Director) on the Courteeners earlier in the year. Johnson has been using the grandMA2 ever since it became available with great success and enthusiasm.

Experienced Paris-based monitor engineer Laurent Midas has been mixing Christophe Maé’s Autumn national arena tour for the first time on a Soundcraft platform, using both a Vi6 and a Vi2.

The autumn t-music Chinaski tour, which kicked off on 28 September in Pardubice, is produced internationally by renowned British designer Simon Sidi, who has produced the last five years of American Idol as well as concerts of such music stars as Depeche Mode, Kanye West and Annie Lennox.

The 12th German TV Awards were presented on October 9th, 2010 at the Coloneum in Cologne. Magic Magic Media Company (MMC) was responsible for the technical realisation of the gala show and the set construction at the studio. In addition the design and the construction of the after show area at the “Coloneum Mall” were provided by MMC as well as the technical services for the party.

Sting’s front of house engineer Howard Page is using a large quantity of DPA 4099 clip mics across the string section for Sting’s Symphonicity word tour. Accompanied by a full symphonic orchestra, Symphonicity sees Sting performing new arrangements of his greatest hits as well as more unknown work.

SPORTELMonaco has concluded another highly successful international sports content market, with 2188 participants, representing 922 companies from 68 countries worldwide taking part in the 4-day mix of market, conferences and special events, it was announced today by David Tomatis, CEO of MONACO MEDIAX / SPORTEL.

Cirque Du Soleil's fabulous Varekai show - currently touring Europe - has transferred its lighting control to a grandMA2 system, with a grandMA2 light as the main show console and another grandMA2 light running in full tracking backup.

Geared to increase awareness of the importance of family farms, Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America, took place at Miller Park on Saturday, October 2nd. Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews performed, as did Kenny Chesney, Norah Jones, Jason Mraz, and several additional high profile artists. The event was broadcast on Willie’s Place, Sirius/XM Radio as well as DIRECTV's The 101 Network.

When Scott Chmielewski, president of Digital Media Designs, put a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles through their paces at Virgin Mobile’s FreeFest, a day-long music and dance extravaganza, he deployed the grandMA2’s brand new 2.0 software with stunning results.

CET Universe, a leading provider of services, systems, and products for professional audio and video production, today announced that its Remote Station™, a turnkey on-location post-production system, will be used for the live webcast of the 11th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards, on Thursday, November 11, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Univision Network will carry the event live from 8–11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central).

Studer’s Vista 9 and Vista 8 Series digital mixing consoles have quickly become a favorite of broadcast engineers, thanks to features like their easy to use Vistonics™ touchscreen interfaces, fast, flexible operation that’s ideally suited to a live TV environment, and pristine sound quality. Currently, Vista 9 and Vista 8 Series consoles are being used on “Dr. Phil,” “NFL on FOX,” “The Martha Stewart Show,” “The Wendy Williams Show” and many other popular shows, and will be in the studio for “Conan,” the upcoming Conan O’Brien Show on TBS.