Defending champion Paul Bonhomme of Britain won the first Red Bull Air Race of the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi on Saturday with a hard-fought victory in scorching heat, finishing just ahead of compatriot Nigel Lamb (2nd) and Hungary’s Peter Besenyei (3rd) in an eventful battle over the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf. Austria’s Hannes Arch finished a disappointing 11th after posting the fastest Qualifying time on Friday.

At the 31st Annual Sports Emmy® Awards, winners in 32 categories including outstanding live sports special, live series, sports documentary, studio show, technical team remote, technical team studio, promotional announcements, play-by-play personality and studio analyst will be honored. The Awards will be given out at the prestigious Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center located in the Time Warner Center on April 26th, 2010 in New York City.

Solid State Logic, the manufacturer of industry leading digital consoles for the broadcast industry, will showcase the integration of their digital broadcast console range with the world’s most powerful broadcast automation systems at NAB 2010, in the new Pro Audio Hall located in the Central Hall on booth C3313, on April 10 to 15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

CleanSwitch adds the ability to cleanly and quietly switch video signals with embedded audio, passing the audio through with a V-fade or Crossfade.The CleanSwitch option adds a separate openGear card that is controlled by CrossOver to mix up to a full 16 embedded audio channels.

Once again, ABC light cranes (type 120 and 100 with Remote Heads Pele and Alex digital) will be employed at the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa and enable camera operators to shoot the most exciting goal scenes as close as possible. At least camera operators should have an easy job shooting at the World Cup because they use ABC light cranes.

Clear-Com® Communication Systems, a Vitec Group brand, will launch at NAB 2010 (Booth C6025) enhancements to its Eclipse digital matrix intercom system, including the recently released Production Maestro Pro with Clear-Vu, an add-on metering module. These improvements ease the configuration and use of Eclipse, allowing users to achieve a highly efficient, productive communications workflow. Clear-Com will also preview at NAB the newest V-Series user control panel, the V-Series Rotary Panel.

– NewTek, manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products extended congratulations to the “Avatar” Virtual Art Department (VAD) team for their role in helping “Avatar” win the 2010 Academy® Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction.

Snell today announced that it will unveil the latest version of its flagship Alchemist Ph.C – HD motion-compensated standards converter at the 2010 NAB Show. In addition to enhanced support for Dolby® E audio encoding, the new Alchemist Ph.C – HD now supports the emerging 1080p production standard for high-definition broadcasting.

Danish opera singer Rick Heis has recorded an SACD, Caught In Paradise, using DPA microphones.

–APT, the codec specialists within the WorldCast Systems group, will launch a brand new IP audio codec, the WorldCast Astral at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. The WorldCast Astral, the latest addition to APT’s highly acclaimed and award-winning WorldCast IP series, will be the industry’s first IP codec to also offer remote control capabilities and audio back-up from a streaming server.

On 10 March, for the first time in Belgium, Belgacom's innovation department in cooperation with its partner Outside Broadcast, performed a 3D HD capture of a Belgian football match (Charleroi-Lokeren). Belgacom is happy to announce that this test was very conclusive: the new 3D HD technology, particularly in the case of football, offers a truly new television experience to viewers and opens up new and exciting prospects for the future.

Galicia will soon have a new young, urban and independent digital TV channel. It will be a window always opened to participation. The new private regional channel Vtelevision will be the first launched by the La Voz de Galicia Group, which is the owner of the DTT regional private license for this region.

In addition to great sound and reliable performance of AKG’s wireless systems, users have a new tool to browse, monitor, and control their wireless microphone and IEM systems: their iPhone®. With the introduction of their iPhone application AKG Wireless - which is now available for free in Apple’s iTunes® store – AKG has effectively streamlined the workflow for wireless microphone monitoring and configuration by linking Harman’s HiQnet® protocol to the iPhone and iPod® Touch app via Wi-Fi® network.

T-VIPS, a global leader in professional video contribution and distribution solutions, today announces that its CP560 DVB-T2 gateway has been chosen by ORS to deliver live HD TV to Austria’s terrestrial viewers in Vienna. This commercial trial will be live in time for terrestrial viewers to enjoy the World Cup finals in HD.

Polecam operator Steve Rausch has completed his second season capturing ISOC National SnoCross Racing (SnoX). Nine events were organized by the International Series of Champions during winter 2009-2010, each race being streamed live on the internet and later edited into a one-hour show for transmission on the Versus cable TV network.