On Saturday/Sunday, April 18/19, David Guetta will be performing live from Miami and also sharing the stream as part of Sennheiser’s #DontStopTheMusic online performance series. Tune in to the two-hour “United at Home” fundraising set via the superstar DJ’s own social media channels or via Sennheiser’s Facebook pages for France, Germany, the UK, Spain, the USA and Canada.

When asked if there is a problem with people leaving the industry due to COVID-19 Duncan answered that, “Freelancers have been forced to find work elsewhere. In a recent survey of 2,800 people over 30% of freelancers said they have had to leave the industry, and 20% say they hope to come back but are very unsure whether they are able to because of the lack of certainty.” #WeMakeEvents is currently verifying the data from this survey and will be publishing the full report in the coming weeks. 

The winners of the 2018 ‘Opus - German Stage Award’ have now been chosen. The winning projects are ‘THE ONE Grand Show’ in the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin and ‘The Blossom Tour’ by the German pop group Milky Chance. The Opus is awarded annually and honours exceptional achievement in theatre and stage production. The award ceremony will take place on 12 April, as part of Prolight + Sound, the international trade fair of technologies and services for entertainment, integrated systems and creation.

A multimedia Christmas musical, A Star is Born, was one of the performance highlights during the Christmas advent events held at the ZKM Art & Media Centre’s Filmpalast cinema in Karlsruhe, Germany, mixed on an Allen & Heath dLive system.
 

On Monday, August 19th 2013, at 10:15pm, Simon Gosejohann and his brother Thilo appeared in the new comedy show "antisocial network," broadcast by the German channel ProSieben.

On December 16th, 2012, Jean-Michel Aweh (age 20) won the contest and the prize money of 100,000 Euros in the finale of "Das Supertalent", the German edition of "Got Talent". Aweh received 25.39 percent of the audience votes for performing a song that he himself had composed and written.

London's Albany Theatre has invested in a new grandMA2 ultra-light console to replace their old lighting desk. The Albany in Deptford east London, is a busy producing and receiving house, and one of London's leading performing arts venues to showcase a dynamic and lively range of alternative and new works as well as youth and community based projects. The decision to go with grandMA2 was made by Head of Production Fiona Greenhill and Technical Manager Ben Wallace.

Celebrating his fifth year of lighting the MTV Video Music Awards, experienced LD Tom Kenny kept up his pledge of always trying to use new lighting technology in order to animate Florian Wieder’s other-worldly landscape set.

Digital and automated lighting pioneer High End Systems equipment aided an annual event in Austria that kept the artists and the audience alike up much of the night. The benefit concert, “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” was held just days before Christmas in the town of Graz. It featured the coming together of the theatre, Orpheum Graz, promoter Vojo Concerts and event supplier Preworks to financially help those organizations in need with donations from the show.

On Sunday November 25th, on commercial channel VOX, the pop duo "Mrs. Greenbird" was voted the 2012 winner of the German edition of "X Factor". The duo received 61.78 percent of the audience votes—and for the first time on "X Factor", the winners performed a song they had written themselves.

Those 30-minutes opening show, gorgeous stage, novel AR production effects, and multi-camera special shooting has brought us an unusual TV experience of LOL S10 World Championship final which just concluded. Now it’s time to explore the differences from the perspective of broadcasting technology.

In a new talent show recorded at the MMC Studios in Cologne, Germany, the commercial TV channel SAT.1 sought “Superkids—the World’s Greatest Little Talents”. In the end, the street-dance crew, PreSkool, won the grand finale, broadcast on 25 September 2015.

One hundred Claypaky XTYLOS units were used to create the "Il colore del suono" (the color of sound) lighting rig, conceived by the Giò Forma studio and created in conjunction with Claypaky's lighting designer Marco Zucchinali.

Arcus Lighting, exclusive distributor in Germany for High End Systems, a Barco company, supported "Die Happy" and LD Rolf Wenzel. "Die Happy", a German rock band, played their 1000th concert in Ulm, Germany.

On September 3rd a team of determined broadcast industry riders will depart from the offices of IBC in London and will take up the challenge to cycle 300 miles in 24 hours to the RAI in Amsterdam for the IBC Show, the premier event for broadcasters worldwide.