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USITT 2017 Brought Technical Theatre to St. Louis at America’s Center

USITT 2017 Brought Technical Theatre to St. Louis at America’s Center

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ST. LOUIS – USITT’s Annual Conference & Stage Expo took St. Louis by storm over the span of March 8-11 bringing 5,500 attendees and 307 exhibitors to the city, making this our biggest yet. This is second time St. Louis has hosted the Annual Conference, bringing in an economic impact of $5.88 million, with attendees filling 10 hotels in downtown St. Louis and patronizing local arts venues and dining establishments throughout their stay.

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VER Appoints Katie Shelton in Key Role on Broadcast Team

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UK – VER are pleased to announce the appointment of Katie Skelton to the position of Commercial Manager on their UK Broadcast Team. Katie brings with her a wealth of industry knowledge gained through working with some of the world’s largest Broadcasters and Production Companies.

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PR Lighting’s Big Six Includes New Aqua Splashproof Series

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FRANKFURT – PR Lighting enjoyed high visibility at this year’s Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show — largely due to an inspired product showcase centered around their new AQUA waterproof moving heads. This was promoted heavily at the Show via banners and large posters in heavily populated areas of the concourses and walkways. The AQUA 440 Beam, the waterproof version of the XR440 Beam, takes advantage of the popular new high output Osram 440W discharge lamp to deliver a punchy and parallel 3.1° beam.

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Prolight + Sound 2017 One To Remember for Elation Professional

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FRANKFURT – Trade show success can be measured any number of ways, but by any standard Prolight + Sound 2017 was historic for Elation Professional. Bolstered by a new distribution relationship in Germany with LMP Lichttechnik Vertriebs, as well as the announcement just prior to the show that over 800 Elation lighting fixtures will feature on the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, this year’s Prolight + Sound was truly one to remember for Elation.

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Perth Concert Hall Installs Elation Sixpar 300s

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PERTH, Australia – The recent refresh of the entire Perth Concert Hall lighting rig (made possible through the State Government’s Department of Culture and the Arts Infrastructure Improvement Program) saw Head of Lighting Alex Spartalis with a lot of decisions to make. The choice to make the PCH home to nine Elation Sixpar 300 RGBAW+UV LED fixtures was not one of the difficult ones. With the whole rig headed to LED, Alex had to audition a huge range of luminaires, and the Sixpar 300s were an easy winner.

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FOR-A FA-9600 Multi Purpose Signal Processor

FOR-A FA-9600 Multi Purpose Signal Processor

FOR-A’s FA-9600 Multi Purpose Signal Processor will be featured at the 2017 NAB Show, booth, #C5117. The company will also debut the MCC-4K Motion Compensated Converter and LMCC-8000 8K/4K Linear Matrix Color Converter. The 2017 NAB show will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 22-27, with exhibits from April 24-27.

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RDMchip from LumenRadio

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LumenRadio’s new RDMchip shares many attributes with its big brother, LumenRadio’s TiMo, but in an even more compact size. The RDMchip measures just 6mm by 6mm in size. As such, it claims the title as the world’s smallest wireless RDM receiver. By adding a few ancillary components, users get an integrated wireless receiver that can talk both DMX and RDM.

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Kansas Church Installs Chauvet Professional COLORado LED Fixtures

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GLADSTONE, MO — For Antioch Bible Baptist Church, a modestly-sized church located north of Kansas City with a big emphasis on outreach, Lenexa, KS-based Stark Raving Solutions provided a cost-efficient audio system and a new broadcast and live audience-friendly lighting rig that features Chauvet Professional COLORado fixtures.

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Supernova 4 – The Market Leading RDM Management Tool Has Got Even Better

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GOTHENBURG – LumenRadio, world leaders in wireless DMX, releases a new version of SuperNova – Supernova 4. SuperNova is a complete system management tool for monitoring and configuring your lighting network and with the new features and improved UI this market leading RDM management tool has got even better. With support for both CRMX and 3rd party Art-Net nodes from other manufacturers, SuperNova provides a clear and detailed view of the status of your entire network – both wired and wireless devices. RDM enabled fixtures can be configured and monitored from the software, with configuration of common parameters just a click away.

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