Fresh from releasing her 18th album in an illustrious career spanning 14 years, Taiwanese pop sensation A-mei is back on the road in a spectacular rock tour that demanded many months of preparation.

EVS will unveil its very latest broadcast production systems and tapeless workflow solutions at Broadcast Asia, next 15 to 18th June. EVS Instant Tapeless Technology will be on display and demo at booth 7J3-01.

Meeting point: Booth 7J3-01 / Broadcast Asia, 15-18th June

As pilot season winds down, everyone is waiting to see what new television shows will get the “green light”. To get the best look possible for new sitcom pilots, eight-time Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Donald A. Morgan, ASC, is many a producer’s first choice.

Lighting and video content for multiple LED surfaces at the 2010 Miss Universe Slovakia beauty pageant, staged in the SIBAMAC Arena, Bratislava, was controlled by 2 x grandMA full-size consoles, 6 x video stations with the MA VPU software (Video Processing Unit) and 6 x MA NSPs (Network Processing Units). The show – which regularly draws one of the highest annual ratings on Slovakian TV - was broadcast live on national STV1, and featured an enthusiastic audience of 5,000 people.

On April 15th, the world’s largest trade fair for film and television technology ended. For some people the journey back home from the NAB in Las Vegas took longer than expected – due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland which suspended the air traffic. However, the trip was worth it. Producers from all over the world presented their technological innovations which are designed to facilitate the work in the film industry and to open up new dimensions. Numerous of these new products can be seen for the first time in Germany at the cinec from 18th to 20th September.

A grandMA2 full-size, a grandMA2 light and an MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) are on tour with the 2010 X-Factor Live arena show, which have been specified and are operated and owned by Lighting Designer Neil Trenell.

Rihanna, Sade and Peter Maffay were just some of the artists who took to the stage for the 2010 Echo Awards at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin in March. The 22-year old Barbados-born singer stole this year’s show with a performance of her latest single Rude Boy, her first on German television, alongside two giant animatronic robots. Pop newcomer Ke$ha treated the audience to a raucous rendition of her recent number one hit Tik Tok while Sade performed Soldier of Love from her new album. At the heart of the 2010 awards, making sure all the performances wowed the crowd, were Sennheiser’s microphones and monitoring equipment.

A unique act in the massive work of contemporary music, Celtic Woman merges modern elements with time-honored Celtic tunes through the voices of five superb female soloists backed by a full band and an eight-member choir. Since its formation in 2004, the group has sold over fifty million albums and has played to sold-out arenas throughout the world. The current 75+ city tour, “Songs From the Heart” supports the latest release of the same name and made its way in late February through New York City. The group invited the Internet phenomenon P.S. 22 Chorus to share the stage at Radio City Music Hall.

With technology lying at the heart of Creative Technology’s business, the Company’s extensive inventory has been enlarged further with the purchase of a variety of new products that complement CT’s already comprehensive stock of audio visual equipment. Taking delivery of new modular display screens and projectors means CT can remain ahead of our competitors, ensuring we provide the very best of equipment to events worldwide.Amongst the new purchases, CT now own three new types of LED Video Display systems – the Flyer 12, the Panasonic 12mm LED and the Spider 30.

Famous Swiss entertainer Marco Rima is currently starring in his very own comedy-musical "Die Patienten", set in an asylum for the clinically insane. In addition to his performing live on stage, creative workaholic Rima also wrote the script and produced the show. The joyful visual insanity of this challenging project was made possible with a fair share of coolux technology and expertise.

• The Dutch DYNACORD partner Electric Sound Benelux is offering present and future Cobra owners an extensive support package„
• In addition to attractive leasing terms and a rental network, the company is buying back ageing systems and providing valuable training opportunities„
• The customer base currently has over 460 Cobra cabinets at its disposal, but even these are often not enough to meet demand

• Young, good-looking and highly talented – Berlin-based Saint Lu is on the verge of a major breakthrough
• Her powerful mixture of rock and blues evokes at once memories of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin
• The producer of her debut album is multiple ECHO winner Patrik Majer (Wir sind Helden)
• Saint Lu and her backing group use Electro-Voice microphones

The annual BRIT Awards are as well renowned for their celebrity escapades – this year Liam Gallagher lobbed his microphone into the audience after accepting his award for BRITs Album of 30 Years for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? – as they are for honouring the very best in music. The antics do not, however, eclipse the performances and great audio is high on the list of production priorities.

The NAB Show, the annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment across all platforms, has announced that Ray Kurzweil, one of the 21st century's most revolutionary thinkers, will headline a session entitled "The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Media, Communications, and Society." A discussion with Donald Marinelli, Executive Producer of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, will follow. The 2010 NAB Show takes place April 10-15, in Las Vegas.

About a dozen of private radio stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland broadcasted the concert of Robbie Williams in Cologne live on 5th March 2010. Frankfurt-based Hit Radio FFH was in charge of the signal distribution and decided to use the fast and cost-effective solution with audio codecs over the available ISDN lines. Ten C1161 units have been supplied by MAYAH additionally to the station's own codecs for this event and were used to transmit the live audio with APT-X, MPEG-4 AAC, MPEG Layer 2 and Layer 3 (mp3) formats.