Remote Recording Network (RRN), Riedel Communications, TV Skyline, The Black Project, and 13 other partners collaborated in the production of a landmark virtual live event on Nov. 22-23 that brought together teams working remotely across four countries and three continents. Headed by Peter Brandt, CEO of RRN, the show represented the first-ever fully decentralized production of a live, global music event.

An innovative ‘Citybus’, housing a mobile studio built entirely with Blackmagic Design products is broadcasting local news and features from the heart of a community in northern France. Matélé, a local TV station launched in May 2013, broadcasts to 315,000 households in Saint Quentin, in the Aisne department in Picardy. Its daily program, Dans Le Bus, features 40 minutes of interviews and footage with local personalities, business owners and the general public, produced from a Mercedes Sprinter, which travels around the city, filming constantly for five hours a day.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ opened in London 19 November at the Noel Coward Theatre with video projection comprising the shows entire stage scenery. Supplied by Stage Sound Services, three disguise vx 4 and four gx 1 servers powered projections for the show, highlighting the huge impact of social media on daily life and create an immersive social media environment on stage for the actors.

ATOMIC, a creative company providing rental solutions, set construction, design and production services for the live event industry, hosted the inaugural event for the Rock Lititz Innovation Series. Presented by ATOMIC leaders Lydia Henry, VP of Strategy and HR, Daniel McPhillips, President and Rob Barber, VP of Rental Solutions, the evening was focused on “Design Thinking.” The interactive evening was a creative, fun success with employees from several of the Rock Lititz companies, including ATOMIC, Clair Global, TAIT and PEDG, among others.

Mediapro has made television history with the production of the first match between Madrid and FC Barcelona in Ultra-High Definition.

Feed Our Crew is an NGO initiative (non-government organization) in South Africa co-founded by Johannesburg-based Tamsyn Strydom (project manager from production and rental company MGG), Kagiso Moima Wa Masimini (KG) who owns Blackmotion Production and Marcia Alves from We Are Boundless.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, enabled America’s leading unscripted production company, Fly on the Wall Entertainment (FOTW), to reach a new level of flexibility during its production of the second season of TLC’s ‘This is Life Live’ show using Dejero’s mobile transmission technology.

For the past 14 years, the O&L Group has been connecting with their almost 6000 employees across Namibia through a special outreach called the Mwenyopaleka Employee Engagement Roadshow. Rental company dB Audio Namibia, a leader in the technical events industry in Namibia, has been associated with the roadshow for years and this year turned to Elation Professional’s dynamic ACL 360 Bar™ effect to give the show a more modern, futuristic look.

Since 2004, Chinese Man has been one of the most innovative bands on the French trip hop scene. Originally from Aix-en-Provence, the now Marseille-based band blends a potent mix of hip-hop, funk, dub, reggae and jazz together with a big emphasis on beats and samples. It also runs its own independent record label, the eponymous Chinese Man Records (CMR), featuring a whole host of contemporary French artists.
 

“Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar” (HNMPL - Today I Can’t Get Up) is a hugely successful Spanish ‘jukebox musical’ from Drive Productions telling the story of two struggling young musicians surviving in Madrid against a backdrop of drugs, AIDS and other social phenomena and chaos in the 1980s and immediate aftermath of Franco’s collapsed fascist regime.

Internationally renowned production manager Ola Melzig - Head of Production for Eurovision 2017 - is set to host the glamorous tenth anniversary edition of the Knight of Illumination Awards. The prestigious ceremony will be held on the 17th of September at one of London’s most iconic live entertainment venues, the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.

After several months of meetings with industry leaders discussing the return of sports production during the coronavirus pandemic, SVG USA has published the COVID-19 Sports Production Operations Guide. This guide is designed to provide guidance for those in the Americas who may have questions about how to approach some of the challenges that our industry is facing, given the requirements for safety protocols, social distancing, and more.

Robe moving lights were right at the heart of the action at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and particularly at The Pleasance, where 46 fixtures – a mix of Pointes, 600E Spots, MMX Spots, MMX WashBeams, MMX Blades and LEDWash 600s - were dotted around the larger of the 23 pop-up full-on venues operated by The Pleasance for the duration of the Festival.

Ultra HD programming is expected to see strong take-up rates globally, with failure to invest now will mean a failure to tap into its growing premium revenues, according to Alan Crisp, Analyst at satellite industry market research and consulting services firm NSR.

Calling the videoboard installation at EverBank Field “ambitious” is like saying Jacksonville, FL, is about to get “a little warm.” True, for sure, but wildly understated. In the videoboard arms race, the Jacksonville Jaguars have hurtled past their NFL competition, and, with a 60-ft.-high by 362-ft.-wide videoboard broadcasting 8K content in each end zone, it’s hard to imagine they’ll be matched any time soon writes Karn Hogan for Sports Video Group.