LONDON — VER’s specialist broadcast lighting division, Aurora, has been supporting the production needs of The Nightly Show, which gets recorded in front of a live studio audience within the Cochrane Theatre in Central London. Lighting director Chris Rigby has opted for a variety of low energy and LED fixtures that meet the production’s needs.
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LONDON — Creative Technology Ltd (CT), which was acquired by NEP in January 2017, noted that the U.K.-based division of NEP’s subsidiary, Mediatec, will be merged with and rebranded CT starting on April 1, 2017.
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BOSTON, – In mid-March, 50 lighting industry professionals pulled on their boots and rode their horses over mounds of plowed snow to Boston to see the first ever Ellipsoidal Leko Shootout produced by USITT and hosted by High Output. Seven companies brought a total of 21 fixtures each hoping to best their competitors. High Output was happy to show off their new satellite shop and sound stage in Boston. The event was brain-child of Steven Rosen FIALD, President & Creative Director at Available Light, Dan Jentzen, Director of Education at High Output, and Anthony Phelps, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at UMass Boston and USITT representative.
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FRANKFURT — Austria-based AV Stumpfl returns to the prolight+sound show in April with a broad line-up of high-performance media server products and projection screens for the live entertainment space.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Robert Juliat is building upon the success of Roxie, its first LED followspot, with Oz and Alice LED followspot models (pictured here) at Prolight + Sound 2017. Along with other new fixtures, the company will also unveil its new SpotMe technology at PL+S 2017. Designed for use with RJ’s Compact and Grand ranges of followspots, SpotMe promises to shine the light on performers in a “smart, progressive way.”
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Elation Professional’s new Artiste DaVinci, a full-featured yet compact “theatrical grade” LED moving head spot luminaire, is the first fixture in Elation’s new Artiste series.
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NASHVILLE — 4Wall Nashville is expanding its services to clients with a 29,000 square foot area connected to 4Wall Nashville’s current facility that is designated to serve as rehearsal space. It’s designed to provide clients with easy access to lighting equipment as well as any expendables needed.
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NASHVILLE — For We The Kings’ current tour, which began Feb. 17 in Nashville in support of the10th anniversary of the band’s debut album, Squeek Lights is providing a rig centering on fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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LAS VEGAS — LD Robert Pick is using Avolites’ Tiger Touch II console for a new version of Raiding the Rock Vault, which opened March 11 for a six-month run at Vinyl, located inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Production designer/programmer LD Paul Dexter specified the console, supplied by Toucan Productions of Oklahoma City.
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LAS VEGAS — For-A will feature Fujitsu’s new IP-HE950 encoder/decoder units at the 2017 NAB show, set for Las Vegas from April 24-27. The IP-HE950 is designed to support real-time 4K, HD and SD video transmission. The units will be featured at For-A’s NAB booth, #C5117.
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