LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors announced that Grammy nominated composer/guitarist Adrian Belew will host the 2016 Parnelli Awards. The event is set for the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, Oct. 22, just two days after the Parnelli Golf Tournament on Oct. 20.
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The Tony’s Awards celebrate the best of theatre performance with an annual live broadcast television show from the Beacon Theatre in New York city. Viewed by millions, the show combines live performed excerpts from popular Broadway shows with the pomp and circumstance of a red-carpet award ceremony. Driving all of these video walls were four Hippotizer V4 Taiga media servers.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Not even the Wicked Witch of the West could scare away the crowds at the recent theatrical run of the Wizard of Oz, staged to sold-out audiences at the 2,000-seat Thomas Hassall Anglican College in Middleton Grange, Australia. To give the school production a professional stage look, technical supplier Showtools Australia specified a host of CHAUVET Professional fixtures, including 12 Rogue R1 Spots, 24 x COLORdash Par-Hex 12s, 24 x COLORdash Batten- Hex 8s and 2 x Vesuvio RGBAs to create maximum dimension and atmosphere on stage.
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GUANGZHOU, CHINA – Starting from its first edition in 2003 to celebrating the 15th anniversary in 2017, Prolight + Sound Guangzhou has successfully transformed from a regional to an international business platform for the pro audio and lighting industry through the strategic partnership formed between Messe Frankfurt and the Guangdong International Science and Technology Exhibition Company (STE) four years ago.
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LITITZ, PA– ATOMIC, a creative company providing rental solutions, set construction, design and production services for the live event industry, hosted the inaugural event for the Rock Lititz Innovation Series. Presented by ATOMIC leaders Lydia Henry, VP of Strategy and HR, Daniel McPhillips, President and Rob Barber, VP of Rental Solutions, the evening was focused on “Design Thinking.” The interactive evening was a creative, fun success with employees from several of the Rock Lititz companies, including ATOMIC, Clair Global, TAIT and PEDG, among others.
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WAYNE, N.J.,– Bell Media, one of Canada’s premier multimedia companies, produced a live-to-air UHD broadcast of the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards (MMVAs) in downtown Toronto in June, with an extensive set up that included a 4K OB truck from Dome Productions. Along with the 4K truck from Dome, the outdoor event employed two audio mobile trucks from Broadcast Audio Services (BAS) and LiveWire Remote Recorders, an on-site broadcast control room and two audio mixing rooms.
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LONDON– It was an event of Olympian proportions. In the run up to the Summer Olympics in Rio, Virgin Media’s new “Be The Fastest” campaign from Curb Media celebrates speed and the fastest man of all time, Usain Bolt. How better to demonstrate Bolt’s blazing speed than with a 100-meter-long horizontal LED screen, floating on the Thames at the foot of the London Eye? A d3 Technologies 4x4pro media server running r13 software played a key role in the event.
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WOODBURY, NY, — For Water of Life Community Church, video has long been an essential component in bringing its message to local congregants and followers around the world. When the non-denominational church recently expanded with a new facility and state-of-the-art technical equipment, they chose Z‑HD5000 HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to provide the high-quality image acquisition they wanted to underpin their video initiatives.
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LOS ANGELES – The season finale of Survivor: Kaôh Rōng, the 32nd season of the Emmy award-winning show, aired live on May 17 from CBS Radford Studios in Los Angeles. Lighting designer Victor Fable has been incorporating digital lighting and graphics effects from Elation Professional’s Emotion digital light on television shows lately and recently turned to the new generation luminaire for the 2016 finale of the popular show.
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DURBAN, South Africa – The 2016 South African Music Awards (SAMAs), broadcast live from the Durban ICC Arena on June 4 on SABC1, also entertained a live audience of 3,000. LD Robert Grobler, lighting the SAMAs for the first time, included more than 200 Robe fixtures on the rig, Gearhouse South Africa supplied the gear.
Read More »CAMDEN, NJ — Shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa were out at a secondary stage at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, NJ, near Philadelphia, getting fans pumped. Suddenly, the rail separating the fans on the lawn from the performers collapsed, and about 50 people tumbled forward, dropping on top of each other onto a concrete surface several feet below. Forty-two people, including Live Nation staff, were treated for injuries, according to reports.
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RIO – The Olympic Opening Ceremony at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil kicked off the Games of the XXXI Olympiad. It is the first time that the World’s most watched sporting event is hosted in South America with a record number of countries participating in a record number of sports. NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected NEP Group to provide mobile broadcasting and engineering consulting for its production.
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