Sound designer Colin Pink has specified DPA miniature microphones for a new UK tour of Chess, the opus of Tim Rice, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. The UK tour opened at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle in late August featuring a cast of West End stars, and continues into 2011.

For some fifteen years, Limp Bizkit has been forging rock, rap, and metal into a unique sound that attacks yet mesmerizes your senses. Early in their career, the group embodied the perfect balance of creative forces that produced their multi-platinum Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Now that the original line-up is reunited, the band played a range of festivals, in anticipation of their yet-to-be-released studio album, Gold Cobra, and will hit the road again to play shows in North America, Europe and South America following its release. The band relies on Sennheiser microphones to cut through tremendous stage volume and still deliver the staccato punches they are known for with clarity, impact, and, yes, beauty.

Ensuring all of the music world’s biggest stars were seen and heard backstage and on the Red Carpet during one of the most celebrated nights in music, veteran audio engineer Ira Malek relied on a Studer Vista 5 digital console to broadcast eight live audio channels with eight VMA show feeds directly to the Video Music Awards’ live Webcast via the TriCaster System on MTV.com. Malek manned the Vista 5 during the VMAs at the AEG Digital Media Studio in Los Angeles, California.

David Tomatis, Monaco Mediax/Sportel C.E.O., and Jacques Braun, Eurodata TV Worldwide Vice-President report that this 1st « European Sport TV Audience Award » will be designated by viewers themselves through the sum of the audience delivered across 40 countries.

The 2010 PLASA Show was again a huge success for MA Lighting and it’s co-exhibitors MAJOR and Rainbow Colour Changers.
The new grandMA2 software release 2.0, the MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) and the whole networking technology of MA Lighting, including the MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) achieved much praise.

PLASA 2010 closed on a high on Wednesday evening, with preliminary visitor figures set to show an increase over 2009 and strong international engagement from across the world. Exhibitors across all the show's sectors enthused about the quality of business leads and relished the show's vibrant atmosphere. The event, which filled London's Earls Court 1 and 2, drew over 12,000 visitors, while the international attendance continued to be strong with nearly 30% of visitors attending from 99 countries worldwide.

The annual IBC Awards Ceremony celebrated just what can be achieved when creativity and technology come together. The awards covered the full gamut from “beautiful and elegant” engineering achievements to raising environmental awareness; from encouraging citizenship through access to parliamentary proceedings to bringing the world’s greatest sports events into our living rooms.

Broadcast sound specialist Red-TX was employed to capture the audio for the Help for Heroes benefit concert, which took place at Twickenham Stadium on Sunday (September 12th 2010).

SPORTELAsia 2011 will take place Wednesday, March 16 to Friday, March 18, 2011 at the world-famous, 5-star InterContinental Hotel, in Hong Kong.
In making this announcement, David Tomatis, Chief Executive Officer of SPORTEL said, “the Asian continent and especially Hong Kong has been favored by our participants through a survey as the venue for the 2011 Spring Market”.

Longtime grandMA user Chris Kuroda, who’s marking his 22nd year as the lighting designer for the rock band Phish, has taken a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles along on the musicians’ cross-country summer tour. Lighting programmer Andrew Giffin suggested using the grandMA2 for lighting control, and Kuroda reports that the two desks have been “a 100 percent complete and utter success. They’ve been incredibly wonderful – I’m very happy with them.”

The Monaco iGaming Exchanges, to be held in Monaco from 11 to 13 October 2010, has enhanced its conference program by adding an exclusive high level panel on the perspectives and evolution of the online gaming and betting market in the US.

IBC, which opens on 9 September, is poised to reinforce its position as the world’s leading meeting place for everyone involved in the electronic media industry. Top figures and opinion formers are lined up for the conference, and more than 1,300 companies are populating 42,000 square metres of exhibition space. Exhibitors include all the major names in the industry, and 250 companies taking part in IBC for the first time.

•„ The ‘Sonnenrot’ Festival took place for the second time in Eching – 13,000 people attended over one weekend
•„ Highlights included acts like Jan Delay, Maximo Park, 2Raumwohnung, Donuts, The Notwist, Adam Green, and Stereophonics
•  Magic Event- & Medientechnik deployed systems from Electro-Voice for both stages

The GTC will shortly be celebrating this year's best TV camera-work as nominated by those who really know good camera-work when they see it: television cameramen. GTC Awards are the only awards recognising excellence in television camera-work where the nominees are recommended entirely by their peers. The GTC Awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday September 28 at 18.00 at BFI Southbank, London SE1 8XT.

150 exhibitors, 15 countries. The cinec is one of the most important events for cine equipment and technology and attracts visitors and exhibitors from all over the world every other year. With the leading producers and developers presenting their novelties in the M,O,C, Events Center in Munich, the film technology will be in the spotlight. The best innovations will be granted the cinecAward.