‘The Easter 2015 Rabbit Race’ produced at MMC Studios in Cologne, Germany, was the first commercial live event ever that was broadcast live and simultaneously by nine of the biggest German private TV stations, and also via live web streaming on the Internet. At the same time, it was the world’s first live sports event for a prime time commercial break. For the organizer, Media Markt, the biggest German electronics retailer, the project was a complete success. Additionally, the rabbit race was awarded a Golden Lion at this year’s Cannes Lions festival.

Brazil’s biggest pop star Luan Santana has filmed his latest DVD ‘Luan Santana – Acoustic’ at a sold out show, with the production and lighting designed by Ludmila Machado and Marcos Olivio of Spectrun Design. Together, the creative duo employed an array of Clay Paky fixtures to deliver crucial looks for the event, with the video becoming the second most watched in YouTube history. HPL Light Company is the Clay Paky official distributor for Brazil.

Lighting designer Tom Campbell is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II on Anna Calvi's summer festival tour using V9 to create a subtle and evocative production.

EUROMEDIA, the leading French broadcast services provider is currently overhauling its technical vehicles and cameras and has recently acquired the first Sony HDC-4300 camera in France for its slow-motion applications.

Following a call for tender, BCE has been selected by EVS to achieve the integration of their solutions in their headquarters and centre of innovation.

Lighting designer, Tim Routledge, has employed a quantity of Ayrton MagicBlade™-R and MagicPanel™-R LED fixtures on Take That’s Live 2015 tour, which is currently travelling the UK in promotion of their seventh studio album, III, before crossing to mainland Europe in the autumn.

Top international pop artists, Take That, are currently promoting their seventh studio album, III, on their Live 2015 tour with seven Robert Juliat followspots playing major roles in highlighting the artists and the many theatrical antics that surround them.

The Script performed in front of a jam packed crowd of over 80,000 people at Croke Park in June, for their biggest show of the year. Mirrad's Jamie Thompson and Dave Cohen made full use of Avolites Titan range, with two Sapphire Touch consoles, two Tiger Touch II consoles, a Quartz, four Titan Net Processors, and ART2000 dimmers.

Fifty Robe Pointes added to the fun and excitement of the Opening Ceremony kicking off the 2015 Copa America international football tournament for South America’s national teams which is being staged in Chile.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™ has come to an end after 52 matches played over 30 days and with a total attendance of more than 1.35 million. Plenty of records have fallen along the way - not least of which was the USA claiming a historic third title. Key quotes from the tournament organisers are available on FIFA.com, while below is a summary of the statistical highlights.

HBS, working in collaboration with Host Broadcaster MediaCorp as HB Production Partner, had the objective of delivering an international standard broadcast in order to raise the profile of the Games and the response from Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHBs) confirms a ‘best ever’ coverage has been achieved.

In the world of tennis, broadcasters must be ready to serve up any action that comes their way. Through the utilization of Wisycom equipment, Fréquence, a company specializing in wireless audio links, has provided a complete RF over Fiber solution to France Televisions (private signal). Thanks to Wisycom, Fréquence provided solutions to past problems during the tournament’s broadcast and enabled the three journalists from France Télévisions to work simultaneously during all 15 days of live action coverage.
 

While a new global survey has revealed that the transition to IP broadcast infrastructure will take up to 10 years to complete for the majority of broadcasters, local film and media producers and distributors are already considering what the move to media over IP will mean for their infrastructures. The move to IP is arguably the biggest shift in recent film and broadcast history, making it a key focus at Mediatech Africa, set to be staged from 15 to 17 July at the TicketPro Dome at Northgate, Johannesburg.

When the world’s best cyclists set off on the famous Tour de France, the fans that line up along the roadsides will be joined by many more via the race’s extensive live radio and TV coverage. Produced by EUROMEDIA, this year’s event will make use of a new Lawo-equipped OB truck.

Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, announced that Raycom Media is expanding its use of Grass Valley’s EDIUS multiformat nonlinear editing software for news editing across all 33 of its news-producing markets. A new multi-year support agreement combines support with the ability for Raycom to upgrade its existing licenses, as needed, to deploy productivity-enhancing software improvements.