In a career that began in the mid-90s, Johan Glans’ has excelled as both a stand-up comedian and a television personality and is recognized across the Nordic scene. All outdoors, the venues were mostly big garden parks or open fields with up to 8000 attendees in the audience per show.

Scenteknik Kalmar, operating under the Unistage Technology Group, was responsible for all aspects of the tour’s technical delivery, including audio, lighting, video and stage solutions. 

Canon Inc. and Canon Europe raised the curtain on an all-new interchangeable-lens digital video camcorder that combines exceptional imaging performance with outstanding mobility and expandability to meet the demanding production needs of today's motion picture industry. The camcorder, which features a newly developed Super 35 mm-equivalent approximately 8.29-megapixel CMOS sensor, will be available in two models: the EOS C300 Digital Video Camcorder, equipped with an EF lens mount for compatibility with Canon's current diverse lineup of interchangeable EF lenses for EOS single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras and new EF Cinema Lens lineup; and the EOS C300 PL Digital Video Camcorder, with a PL lens mount for use with industry-standard PL lenses.

Mistakes must be avoided at all costs in case an entire event has to be rescheduled due to one single error. This can happen if a sound system breaks down for more than 20 minutes, or if the audio quality is inadequate. To prevent any such occurrences, Lawo’s daughter company Audio Broadcast Services (ABS) re-employed their successful strategy from the previous year and used their proven Lawo equipment for audio coverage of the Allianz SE shareholder’s meeting, called “Annual General Meeting”, held on May 5, 2011. ABS and Lawo collaborated in a successful and strong partnership during the project.

Audio specialist Sennheiser makes protecting its global customers a central theme of its corporate strategy against product counterfeits. "After all, trademark protection is also customer protection. The risks that consumers take when purchasing counterfeited products is by no means clear to everyone," explains Volker Bartels, Speaker of the Executive Management Board.

A total of 207 outside broadcast vans worldwide, mainly in Europe, but also from the USA, Africa, Australia and South America, are represented in the database at www.live-production.tv. More than half of TV and radio stations and OB van constructors rely on the comprehensive VSM control system manufactured by L-S-B Broadcast Technologies GmbH. The Virtual Studio Manager (VSM) achieves this technological lead with its open, non-proprietary architecture.

On March 17, I shared a new vision for our company and industry to our customers, media, analysts and industry notables. The event was held at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a long-time customer. Our industry is facing momentous change, and on that day, I announced that Harris Broadcast was adapting to this change and becoming Imagine Communications and GatesAir.

On Sunday, November 8, 2015, we lost a man of vision whose achievements shaped the broadcast industry worldwide.

Between Gdansk to the south and Gdynia in the north lays the lesser known resort city of Sopot on the Baltic coast. Here the new Ergo Arena and Entertainment Hall (EAEH) has taken the seemingly perfected sports arena design up another notch. "In the way of other such buildings the Ergo Arena can accommodate almost all the indoor sports to world championship standard," said Piotr Jankiewicz from Konsbud-Audio who installed the arena's sound system, "hockey, volley and basketball, even combat sports; and from the outset the architectural design has fully addressed the needs of touring shows, you can fly the biggest productions here."

The DiGiCo team has spent the last 18 months consulting with Electra Partners about the possible combination of both Allen & Heath and Calrec with the DiGiCo family. The culmination of this brings together three British console companies to create a new professional audio group, while retaining their unique skills, customer relationships and the identities of each brand.

At IBC, Sennheiser unveiled a new slot-in camera receiver that redefines compatibility: the EK 6042 is a true-diversity, two-channel receiver that can work with both analogue and digital Sennheiser transmitters across a bandwidth of 184 MHz. It is an ideal partner for Sennheiser’s top-of-the-range Digital 9000 series and can operate with all analogue transmitters that feature Sennheiser’s HiDyn plus or HDX companders. The receiver will become available in spring 2016.

German mobile production company TV Skyline offered an insight into the future of mobile television production with their new Ü8 UHD OB truck in Mainz, Germany, on 1 September.

The headquarters of A&O Technology along with the productionfacilities of its in-house manufacturer alpha one have relocated to new premisesin Bremen.

Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced that the Avid VENUE | S6L console, a modular live sound system designed to take on the world’s most demanding tours and events with ease, is out on the road with a-ha, one of the world’s highest-grossing bands. Powered by Avid Everywhere™, VENUE | S6L enables live sound professionals to achieve better sounding mixes with greater speed and efficiency.

Actus Digital, a provider for broadcast compliance logging, quality monitoring, alerting, advanced editing, content repurposing, and AI-based workflows, announced today that A1 Telekom Austria Group, a leading operator in Austria, is expanding its use of the company’s intelligent monitoring platform. With the Actus platform, A1 Telekom Austria Group can monitor its in-house quality of service as well as provide its broadcast customers with remote content monitoring, clips creation and export capabilities, and more. The operator is using the Actus platform for a diverse range of use cases such as for compliance recording; monitoring of loudness, SCTE-104/35, subtitle, multiple audio languages; as well as for technical monitoring and real-time alerts on audio, video, and metadata issues.

 

Sound Devices is pleased to announce firmware version 2.90 for the Audio Ltd A10 Digital Wireless System and its companion Mic2Wav and A10-TX Remote applications. Firmware 2.90 features key improvements for both production and post-production. Most notably, the companion application Mic2Wav introduces the “Conform to CSV” feature, which converts audio files recorded on an A10-TX to WAV files using a CSV sound report from a MixPre Series, 6-Series, or 8-Series Sound Devices mixer-recorder.